Registration is now open for the 2024 EERI Annual Meeting (2024AM)—Uniting Earthquake Science and Engineering for a More Resilient Future! The 2024AM will be held April 9-12, 2024 at the Sheraton Grand in downtown Seattle, Washington. The main meeting, including a technical program with plen...

EERI is pleased to announce the candidates for President-Elect and Director for the 2023 Board of Directors Election. You can view the candidate bios and vision statements below. All eligible EERI voting members will receive an email with a link to access their secure online ballot to cast their vo...

EERI’s Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) program  is currently monitoring the impacts of the destructive M 6.8 earthquake that struck near Oukaïmedene, Morocco at 11:11 pm local time on Friday, September 8. According to Moroccan authorities, the earthquake caused more than 2,600 deaths and 2,5...

EERI is currently accepting applications for the positions of President-Elect and Director to serve on the EERI Board of Directors beginning in 2024. The eleven member EERI Board of Directors is the central decision making body for the organization. The Board represents the interests of the membersh...

The Editorial Board of EERI’s peer-reviewed journal Earthquake Spectra is proud to announce yet another significant rise in our Impact Factor! Earthquake Spectra’s 2022 Impact Factor (IF) rose to 5.0 from 4.330 in 2021, setting a new high for the journal. This brings Spectra to the rank of 23 ou...

 It’s awards season! EERI is currently accepting nominations or applications for the following awards and honors. All EERI members are encouraged to nominate a friend or colleague today who you think is deserving of recognition. Click the award below to view more details and learn how to subm...

The Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance Association (GEER) and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) released a major report today on the three-month anniversary of the Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence that affected southern Türkiye and northern Syria earlier this year. The ...

The 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes occurred in a region of significant prior study by Earthquake Spectra authors. In recognition of this legacy of work, Earthquake Spectra has compiled a special collection of some previously published papers from this region. These papers can be found at the collec...

After the seismic events on February 6, 2023 in Türkiye, our EERI reconnaissance team mobilized on March 13, 2023 to assess the performance of hospitals.  The purpose of the trip was to observe structural response, damage, and the effect of earthquakes on hospital functionality. Of primary int...

During the month of April, 82 donors doubled their impact with the LFE Endowment Matching Gift Campaign!  Thanks to the amazing generosity of members, EERI raised $120,097, which, combined with the match, resulted in a total of $220,097 in donations for the LFE Endowment Fund! This is a g...

EERI’s Learning From Earthquakes program continues to respond to the February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence affecting Turkey and Syria. Building on the work of the EERI-GEER advance reconnaissance team that traveled to Turkey last month, three additional reconnaissance teams departed thi...

 On February 6, 2023, a pair of earthquakes (Mw 7.8 and 7.5, USGS) struck south/southeastern Turkey. During February 15-20, 2023, an EERI Learning From Earthquakes advance team conducted field visits in the disaster zone. The field team included Ayse Hortacsu (M.EERI 2000) from the Applied...