Written by Steven McCabe (M.EERI,1983) Professor William J. Hall (M.EERI,1973), who was recently recognized as an EERI Honorary member at the Annual Meeting in San Diego on March 5, 2020, passed away on Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in Urbana, Illinois. He was 94. His death closes a remarkable life tha...

Published June 29, 2020 As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to rise, EERI has extended our policy of canceling all in-person events, meetings, and activities until October 1, 2020. We will continue to monitor the latest guidance from the CDC to inform our organizational policies and ope...

Thursday, July 23, 11 am PT / 2 pm ET | REGISTER HERE This Learning from Earthquakes webinar will provide an overview of the impacts from the M5.7 March 18, 2020 Magna, Utah earthquake. In this multidisciplinary webinar, you will gain insights covering science, engineering, and response aspects of ...

EERI’s Student Awards Committee is excited to offer its Annual Undergraduate Student Paper Competition. This competition encourages the active involvement of students in earthquake engineering and the earthquake hazards community and allows emerging experts to share their research. The prize for e...

Submission deadline extended to July 15, 2020.   Earthquake Spectra is soliciting papers for a special issue dedicated to seismic hazard in Central and Eastern North America (CENA). We welcome papers related to simulated and empirical data, analyses and modeling ground motion, or any other rel...

EERI is currently accepting applications for the position of Chair/Co-Chairs of the Learning from Earthquakes (LFE) Committee. The LFE Committee Chair or Co-Chairs provide oversight and leadership for EERI’s flagship program.  Access the application form here. In 2019, EERI launched the LFE Endo...

The Public Policy and Advocacy Committee (PPA) is rolling out its latest project, the Citizen Advocate Toolkit, to make seismic risk reduction advocacy more accessible for EERI members around the United States. This toolkit describes lessons learned and best practices from the successes and failures...

We have been confronted again in America by the unnecessary loss of life. While massive protests and civil unrest continue across the country, these events have challenged us to reflect and wonder: what can EERI do in a meaningful and thoughtful way to be a catalyst for racial equity in our sphere o...

View a recording of the webinar here. Join us for a webinar to hear preliminary observations and findings from the EERI reconnaissance team that visited Palu, Indonesia earthquake in November 2019. The trip focused on issues related to ongoing population displacement and progress toward reconstruc...

View a recording of the webinar here. Join us for a webinar — presented to you by the Younger Members Committee — featuring lessons learned from the Learning from Earthquakes 2019 Travel Study Program in New Zealand, developed in partnership with QuakeCoRE, the New Zealand Centre for Earthquake...

Explore the emerging and timely concept of functional recovery as a basis for earthquake-resistant design in the 2020 EERI Distinguished Lecture, featuring David Bonowitz. WEBINAR: Wednesday, April 29 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET  FREE for EERI members and non-members | REGISTER HERE In this webinar,...

On Wednesday, March 18, a M5.7 earthquake struck near Magna, Utah. EERI is currently monitoring the situation from media reports and notes from colleagues in the impacted region as part of its Learning from Earthquakes Program.  As EERI's current policy for COVID-19 health concerns prevents all in...