Webinars

Webinars

EERI’s professional development webinars covers a broad range of topics for the community of earthquake risk reduction professionals. You will hear about the latest impacts and lessons from recent earthquakes, learn about emerging research from Earthquake Spectra, and hear from leading experts on complex technical topics. Recordings from previous webinars can be found in the Digital Library and on EERI's YouTube Channel.

LFE Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes Reconnaissance Webinar Series: Geotechnical Impacts (with GEER)

EERI's Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) Program invites you to a FREE webinar series this month with the LFE and GEER reconnaissance teams that traveled to Turkey in March to assess the impacts of the February 6, 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence.geer fault rupture

GEER Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes Reconnaissance Webinar: Geotechnical Impacts

Tuesday, May 30, 2023
10:00 AM-11:30 AM Pacific Time
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On May 30, in the final webinar in this series, the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association will share reconnaissance findings on the geotechnical impacts of the February 6, 2023 earthquake sequence. GEER and EERI sent an advance reconnaissance team to Turkey in mid-February, a week after the earthquakes, to collect perishable data and identify areas for further research. A Phase I GEER team followed to collect data along extensive fault ruptures, inspect affected dams, and map areas with variable levels of liquefaction-related damage. A Phase II GEER team later performed reconnaissance of liquefaction-related damage to port facilities and foundations. Members of all teams will join the webinar to present on their findings and respond to questions from the audience.

Moderator: Jonathan Stewart, UCLA

Speakers:

  • Kemal Önder Çetin, Middle East Technical University
  • Özgür Kozacı, Pacific Gas & Electric
  • Tristan Buckreis, UCLA
  • Diane Moug, Portland State University
  • Kristin Ulmer, Southwest Research Institute
  • Robb Moss, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
  • David Frost, Georgia Institute of Technology

Registering once at the above link will allow you to attend any of the webinars in the series.

PDHs for each webinar will be available at no charge to EERI members, and at a fee of $35 per webinar for non-members.

View a video recording of this webinar here.

LFE Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes Reconnaissance Webinar Series: Buildings

EERI's Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) Program invites you to a FREE webinar series this month with the LFE and GEER reconnaissance teams that traveled to Turkey in March to assess the impacts of the February 6, 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence.

buildings team asmolenLFE Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes Buildings Reconnaissance Webinar

Tuesday, May 23, 2023
10:00 AM-11:30 AM Pacific Time
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The EERI Buildings Team traveled more than 3200 kilometers through the earthquake-affected region of Turkey in mid-March 2023, conducting reconnaissance in İskenderun, Samandağı, Kırıkhan, Antakya, Adana, Osmaniye, Kahramanmaraş, Gaziantep, Adıyaman, Gölbaşı, Malatya, Hassa, İslahiye and Nurdağı. The team focused on understanding the overall structural performance of buildings, including correlation with peak ground intensity at nearby ground motion recording stations. The majority of the buildings were residential, but the team also documented and categorized the response of industrial facilities, commercial buildings, school buildings, and religious and historical structures. The building sample includes reinforced concrete, steel moment frame, precast concrete, and unreinforced masonry buildings. The team also recorded damage to nonstructural building components. In this webinar, members of the team will present their findings and respond to questions.

Moderator: Eduardo Miranda, Stanford University

Speakers:

  • Parth Gudhka, IMEG
  • Bora Genturk, University of Southern California
  • Halil Sezen, Ohio State University (team lead)
  • Rupa Garai, SOM
  • Morgan Griffith, Exponent
  • Michael Mieler, ARUP

An additional webinars will take place in the following week at the same time on Tuesday. The May 30th webinar will focus on geotechnical impacts, with members of the GEER reconnaissance teams.

Registering once at the above link will allow you to attend any of the webinars in the series. PDHs for each webinar will be available at no charge to EERI members, and at a fee of $35 per webinar for non-members.

View a video recording of this webinar here.

LFE Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes Reconnaissance Webinar Series: Hospitals

EERI's Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) Program invites you to a FREE webinar series this month with the LFE and GEER reconnaissance teams that traveled to Turkey in March to assess the impacts of the February 6, 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence.

LFE Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes Hospitals Reconnaissance Webinar

kemalbeyazithastaneTuesday, May 16, 2023
10:00 AM-11:30 AM Pacific Time
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The LFE Hospitals Reconnaissance Team visited hospitals (including both seismically isolated and fixed-base structures) in the affected region of southern Turkey in March, collecting data on both structural and nonstructural performance. The team documented the operational status for 36 hospitals six weeks after the mainshocks, looking particularly at factors that impacted functional recovery. In this webinar, Bret Lizundia S.E., Executive Principal and Rutherford + Chekene, will present findings and preliminary recommendations on behalf of the hospitals team, with other team members available for Q&A.

Moderator: Eduardo Miranda, Stanford University

Hospitals Team Members:

  • Ali Sümer, California Department of Health Care Access and Information (Team Lead)
  • Gordon Wray, Degenkolb
  • Maryann Phipps, Estructure
  • Ali Roufegarinejad, Forell/Elsesser
  • Ricardo Henoch, SOM
  • Önder Akıncı, Simpson, Gumpertz, & Heger
  • Volkan Kara, Cerrahpaşa Medical School
  • Yüksel Tonguç, PROMER

Additional webinars will take place in the following weeks at the same time on Tuesday.

The May 23rd webinar will focus on buildings, with members of the buildings reconnaissance team led by Halil Sezen (Ohio State University).

The May 30th webinar will focus on geotechnical impacts, with members of the GEER reconnaissance teams.

Registering once at the above link will allow you to attend any of the webinars in the series. PDHs for each webinar will be available at no charge to EERI members, and at a fee of $35 per webinar for non-members.

View a video recording of this webinar here.

LFE Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes Reconnaissance Webinar Series: Lifelines

EERI's Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) Program invites you to a FREE webinar series this month with the three LFE reconnaissance teams that traveled to Turkey in March to assess the impacts of the February 6, 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquake Sequence.

LFE Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes Lifelines Reconnaissance Webinar

Tuesday, May 9, 2023
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Pacific Time
REGISTER HERE 

water distribution system düzbağIn this webinar, members of the lifelines reconnaissance team will share their findings on the structural and nonstructural performance of the infrastructures that facilitate the functioning of society. Lifelines include bridges, roads, tunnels, railroads, metro and tram stations, airports, ports, dams, electrical transmission lines, substations, gas transmission lines, water pipes, chemical plants, and power plants. The team gathered data on more than 150 sites throughout the affected region, looking at performance and functionality, the types of failures that caused disruptions, damage patterns, and properties of lifelines that ensured good performance during the earthquakes.

Moderator: Eduardo Miranda, Stanford University

Speakers:

  • Riccardo Cappa, Simpson, Gumpertz, & Heger
  • Brad Wham, University of Colorado at Boulder
  • Ezra Jampole, Exponent
  • Jeff Hunt, Exponent
  • Robert Kraus, WJE
  • Brent Chancellor, WJE
  • Burcu Güldür, Hacettepe University
  • Menzer Pehlivan, Jacobs

Additional webinars will take place in the following weeks at the same time on Tuesday.

The May 16 webinar will focus on hospitals, with members of the hospitals reconnaissance team led by Ali Sumer (California HCAI).

The May 23rd webinar will focus on buildings, with members of the buildings reconnaissance team led by Halil Sezen (Ohio State University).

Registering once at the above link will allow you to attend any of the webinars in the series. PDHs for each webinar will be available at no charge to EERI members, and at a fee of $35 per webinar for non-members.

View a video recording of this webinar here.

Joint EERI-GEER Webinar: 2023 Kahramanmaraş Turkey Earthquake Sequence Reconnaissance Briefing

Joint EERI-GEER Webinar: 2023 Kahramanmaraş Turkey Earthquake Sequence Reconnaissance Briefing

Monday, March 20
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Pacific Standard Time
REGISTER HERE TO ATTEND

EERI's Learning from Earthquakes Program and the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Assoication invite you to a FREE reconnaissance briefing webinar on the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake sequence in Turkey.

golbasiOn February 6, 2023, a M7.8 earthquake occurred in southern Turkey near the northern border of Syria, followed about 9 hours later by a M7.5 earthquake approximately 90 km to the north of the first. The impacts of these earthquakes were devastating. The number of fatalities in both countries has risen to more than 50,000. According to Turkish government sources, more than 200,000 buildings collapsed or suffered damage severe enough to require demolition. Over a million people have been displaced as a result.

A joint EERI-GEER advance reconnaissance team conducted field visits in the disaster zone in southern Turkey from February 15-20. The team traveled over 1,500 km in the affected areas, first along a north-to-south path, and then east-to-west in the southern third of the region. They collected perishable geotechnical data, made observations of structural damage, and assessed needs and opportunities for future reconnaissance.

The four members of the team will present initial findings on topics including surface fault rupture and liquefaction, impacts to structures and lifelines, and emergency response. As the team was unable to visit Syria, the webinar will focus on impacts in Turkey. 

Speakers:

  • Robb Moss, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo
  • Özgür Kozacı, Principal Geologist, Mott MacDonald
  • Ayşe Hortacsu, Director of Projects, Applied Technology Council
  • Ayhan İrfanoğlu, Professor and Associate Head of Civil Engineering, Purdue University

PDH certificates will be available upon request.

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