Today marks the one-year anniversary of the devastating Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence in Turkey. At 4:17 AM on February 6, 2023, a M7.8 earthquake struck near the border of Kahramanmaraş and Gaziantep provinces, followed by a M7.5 earthquake nine hours later and 95 kilometers to the northeast....

EERI’s Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) program is currently monitoring the impacts of the M7.0 earthquake that struck the Xinjiang province of China near the Kyrgyzstan border at 2:09 AM local time on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 (12:09 AM in Kyrgyzstan; 18:09 PM on January 22 UTC). According to medi...

EERI’s Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) program continues to monitor the impacts of the M7.5 earthquake that struck just offshore of the Noto Peninsula in Japan at 4:10 PM local time on January 1, 2024. The LFE Executive Committee held a coordination call in early January and is consulting with Jap...

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is pleased to announce that the 2023 Outstanding Paper Award has been awarded to Brett Maurer and Morgan Sanger for their paper “Why AI models for predicting soil liquefaction have been ignored, plus some that shouldn’t be,” published in Ear...

EERI is pleased to announce that the 2023 Graduate Student Paper Prize has been awarded to Gerald Palomino Romani, Kristen Blowes, and Carlos Molina Hutt for their paper “Evaluating post-earthquake functionality and surge capacity of hospital emergency departments using discrete event simulation,"...

EERI’s Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) program is currently monitoring the impacts of the destructive M7.5 earthquake that struck just offshore of the Noto Peninsula in Japan at 4:10 PM local time on January 1, 2024. The earthquake damaged buildings and disrupted lifelines, particularly electricit...

EERI’s Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) program is currently monitoring the impacts of the destructive M5.9 earthquake that struck 37 kilometers northwest of Linxia Chengguanzhen in northwestern China at 11:59 PM local time on December 18, 2023. According to media reports, the earthquake resulted i...

Many thanks to all EERI members who took the time to consider and choose from the exceptional candidates for the 2024 EERI Board of Directors.  EERI would like to welcome our new President-Elect and two new Directors:  President-Elect Ellen Rathje (M. EERI, 1996)Janet S. Cockrell Centen...

As 2023 comes to a close, I want to thank our members for your dedication and commitment to EERI. Hundreds of volunteers—committee members, chapter officers, reconnaissance team participants, Spectra reviewers, student volunteers, meeting organizers, Board members, and more—have contributed thou...

As we approach the end of this year, I’m delighted to celebrate EERI’s achievements in 2023—read more about those in the recent communique from Executive Director Heidi Tremayne—and anticipate the great things we have planned for the year to come. EERI’s 2024 Annual Meeting in Seattle next...

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is excited to host the 2024 Annual Meeting (2024AM) at the Sheraton Grand in Seattle, WA from April 9-12, 2024. The meeting will bring together participants from engineering, geoscience, emergency planning, social science, and other fields to conn...

EERI is pleased to announce that Kristin J. Ulmer (M.EERI 2014) is a 2024 recipient of the Younger Member Award, in recognition of her impactful contributions to fundamental and applied research in soil liquefaction and her commitment to the earthquake engineering profession. The EERI Younger Member...