As part of EERI’s ongoing efforts to advocate for continued federal funding for earthquake research and resilience, Executive Director Heidi Tremayne drafted this op-ed and submitted it to a major U.S. newspaper within 24 hours of the earthquake that struck Myanmar and Thailand in March 2025. The ...

EERI is now inviting Special Session Proposals for the 13th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (13NCEE) in Portland in July 2026! Learn more about the conference at the 13NCEE website here. The conference will include a small number of special sessions. Attractive special session ...

EERI’s Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) program is currently monitoring the impacts of the destructive M7.7 earthquake that struck near Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma) at 12:50 PM local time (06:20 UTC) on March 28, 2025. A M6.4 aftershock occurred about 12 minutes later. According to initial media cover...

EERI and the Public Policy and Advocacy Committee are continuing to reach out to elected officials to emphasize the importance of sustaining federal funding for earthquake hazards reduction. View a PDF here of the below letter sent to congressional representatives. March 28, 2025 Subject: Expressi...

EERI’s Oral History Program has published the second volume in the new Interviews by Stanley Scott series, focusing on James L. Stratta (1920-1994). Interviews by Stanley Scott: An EERI Oral History Collection preserves and shares the valuable unfinished work of Stanley Scott (1921-2002), a resea...

On March 24, 2025, EERI joined a coalition opposing California Assembly Bill 306. AB306 would prevent the adoption or modification of new California state and local building standards affecting “residential units” from June 1, 2025 until June 1, 2031, with limited exceptions. This approach is ag...

Date & Time: May 16, 2025, 1:00 - 5:00 PM Location: 601 12th St, Oakland, CA REGISTER HERE Description In this in-person, half-day seminar, members of one of the Next Generation Liquefaction (NGL) model development teams, known as the SMT, will highlight the main outcomes of a project jointly ...

EERI is pleased to announce that the 2024 Graduate Student Paper Prize has been awarded to Jingwen He and Ellen Rathje for their paper “Seismic capacity models for earth dams and their use in developing fragility curves," published in Earthquake Spectra Vol. 40, No. 3. The award recognizes a paper...

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is pleased to announce that the 2024 Outstanding Paper Award has been awarded to Eyitayo Opabola and Kenneth Elwood for their paper “Seismic design of concrete structures for damage control,” published in Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 40, No. ...

With all the significant changes underway in the U.S. federal government, EERI is feeling some initial impacts. Under the U.S. National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), EERI has a FEMA grant that supports our work to: Disseminate critical knowledge through our webinars, Oral History ...

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) are pleased to announce the publication of a special collection of articles in Earthquake Spectra, EERI’s peer-reviewed journal, detailing the 2023 update of the United States National Seismic Hazard Model (...

View a pdf of the letter sent to President Trump on March 13, 2025 here. Recent Presidential Executive Orders and actions related to federal funding for science and engineering have cast doubt upon the ability of the federal government to fulfill its necessary and essential role in protecting the c...