The 2020 National Earthquake Conference and 72nd EERI Annual Meeting are pleased to announce an exciting line-up of technical sessions designed to broaden your perspectives and impact. The conference will be held March 4-6, 2020 in San Diego, Calif. The following sessions will focus on the release...

Anastasios Sextos EERI is pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Outstanding Paper Award from Earthquake Spectra, "Local Site Effects and Incremental Damage of Buildings During the 2016 Central Italy Earthquake Sequence" (Volume: 34 issue: 4, page(s): 1639-1669). The paper is authored by Ana...

Stuck in a rut of delivering project after project, deadline after deadline, and trying to look for ways to understand how your work fits into the bigger picture? At the 2020 National Earthquake Conference and EERI Annual Meeting to be held March 2-6, 2020 in San Diego, we’ve designed technical ...

EERI is actively responding to the November 26 M6.4 Durres, Albania Earthquake. The Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) Executive Committee met on December 1 to determine EERI’s response. Based on information provided in the Virtual Earthquake Reconnaissance Team (VERT) report and by other members i...

EERI is pleased to announce that Jack Moehle (M.EERI,1981), the Ed and Diane Wilson Presidential Professor of Structural Engineering at UC Berkeley, is the recipient of the George W. Housner Medal. The medal is awarded for extraordinary and lasting contributions to public earthquake safety through...

EERI is pleased to announce that Tony Shakal (M.EERI,1980) is the recipient of the 2020 Alfred E. Alquist Special Recognition Medal. The medal is awarded for substantial contributions to the field of seismic safety and earthquake risk reduction, having directly affected the seismic safety of the g...

EERI is pleased to release an updated white paper titled, "Functional Recovery: A Conceptual Framework with Policy Options," leading the earthquake risk reduction field in a new way of thinking about resilience and formulating responsive policy solutions.   This version supersedes our white pap...

Early in the morning of November 26, 2019, a M6.4 earthquake struck the western coast of Albania near the capital of Tirana. The EERI community extends its sympathy to the victims as rescue and relief work continues. EERI is currently monitoring the situation from media reports and notes from collea...

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute is pleased to announce that David Bonowitz (M.EERI,1994), a leading structural engineer practicing in San Francisco, is the recipient of the 2020 Distinguished Lecture Award. Bonowitz will deliver the Distinguished Lecture, “Functional Recovery: What i...

EERI is seeking poster abstracts on the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence for the 2020 National Earthquake Conference (NEC) to be held on March 4-6, 2020 in San Diego, CA. Proposal abstracts for presentations are welcome in the following topic areas:  Tectonics Surface Rupture Seismology Geo...

With a generous gift from the Shah family, EERI annually awards the Shah Prize to young professionals and academics for creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit in the field of earthquake risk mitigation and management. Dr. Carlos Molina Hutt (M. EERI, 2011) has been awarded the 2019 EERI...

  Don't miss the largest EERI Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition to date, happening at the 72nd EERI Annual Meeting and the National Earthquake Conference (NEC2020), March 2-6, 2020 in San Diego, California! We have proposals from 50 teams coming from eight countries, from as far as Eg...