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...

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the Structural Engineers Association of California (SEAOC) have released a joint statement outlining a policy agenda for reducing California's earthquake risk. A PDF version of the statement is available here. EERI President David Cocke, SEAOC...

EERI is continuing to respond to the February 6, 2023 earthquake sequence 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 work continues. As more information becomes av...

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 ...