In 2019, EERI launched a wildly ambitious campaign to raise $4 Million for a Learning from Earthquakes (LFE) Endowment Fund, at the end of my term as EERI's President. The campaign has been successful beyond our wildest imagination as EERI raised $2.8 million in cash and testamentary pledges to date...

EERI is pleased to welcome Keith Knudsen and Ashley Morales-Cartagena to the Board of Directors! Both were selected by the 2022 Nominating Committee from the applicants for the Appointed Director board positions last fall, and appointed at the December 2022 Board Meeting. Keith Knudsen will ser...

Two members of EERI, David Friedman and Polat Gülkan, have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) as part of the class of 2023, and will be formally inducted into the academy this coming October. NAE membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "enginee...

EERI continues to develop our response to the devastating February 6, 2023 M7.8 and M7.5 earthquakes affecting Turkey and Syria. Our thoughts remain with the victims, and with those of you among the membership who have family, friends, and colleagues in the region, as the relief and rescue work cont...

At 4:17 am local time today (February 6) a M7.8 earthquake struck near the city of Gaziantep, affecting a widespread region of southern Turkey and northern Syria. Approximately 9 hours later, a second M7.5 magnitude occurred near Ekinözü, 95 kilometers northeast of the first earthquake. A number o...

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), the Consortium of Organizations for Strong Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS), and the Seismological Society of America (SSA) are pleased to announce that José A. Martinez-Cruzado, professor of the civil engineering and surveying department at ...

Welcome to another great year with EERI in 2023!  We have an exciting and busy year ahead, with many opportunities to get involved and leverage your membership to connect with like-minded colleagues, learn the latest advancements in earthquake risk reduction, and expand your leadership skills.&...

On January 1st, I started my new role as Editor-in-Chief of Earthquake Spectra. I’d like to briefly share with you why I am excited for this role and what I see for the future of the journal. I joined EERI shortly after becoming a graduate school in 2001 and submitted my first Earthquake Spectra ...

At 2:34 AM this morning (December 20, 2022) a M6.4 earthquake struck offshore near Ferndale, California, causing damage to lifelines and structures in Humboldt County. Visit the United States Geological Survey event page for more information about the earthquake. The EERI community extends...

EERI is pleased to announce that the 2022 Graduate Student Paper Prize is awarded to “Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for Spatially Distributed Infrastructure Considering the Correlation of Spectral Acceleration Across Spectral Periods,” (Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 1148-1...

EERI is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Paper Award for Earthquake Spectra is “Behavioral responses to earthquake shaking: Video footage analysis of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand,” (Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 16...

Effective December 7, 2022 As EERI continues to stay current with COVID-19 public safety guidelines, we are adjusting our own policies to reflect the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Community Levels prevention actions. The CDC classifies communities as having low, medium, or high levels of COVID-...