Starting October 5, 2023
11:00 AM-2:00 PM Pacific Time
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Join EERI's San Diego Chapter for the 2023 Kenji Ishihara Colloquium: Advancing Earthquake Engineering in the Wake of the Turkey-Syria Earthquake. This year's colloquium will take place virtually, as a webinar series on the lessons learned from the 2023 Kahramanmaraş, Turkey Earthquake Sequence. Researchers, expert engineers and social scientists will come together in this Kenji Ishihara colloquium to discuss structural engineering and the far-reaching social implications of the Turkey earthquake sequence. Experts will share their insights on the lessons learned from the Turkey earthquake and how these are shaping the future of earthquake engineering, disaster preparedness, and response to enhance engineering practices and expedite seismic functional recovery.

The webinars will take place on Thursday October 5, Thursday October 12, and Friday October 27, each starting at 11:00 AM Pacific Time. The webinar lengths will vary by session but will run no later than 2:00 PM. Registering once at the link above will allow you to attend all the sessions.

Thursday 10/5: Lessons Learned from Processing Ground Motions & Code Comparison

• Grace Park
• Tristan Buckreis
• Osman Ozbulut
• Esra Zengin

Thursday 10/12: Functional Recovery of Buildings and Lifelines

• Ali Sumer
• Reid Zimmerman
• Riccardo Cappa
• Ezra Jampole
• Rupa Garai

Friday 10/27: Impacts to Social Recovery

• Louise Comfort
• Kit Miyamoto

Session 1: View a video recording of this webinar here.

Session 2: View a video recording of this webinar here.

Session 3: View a video recording of this webinar here.

Tuesday, November 14, 2023
10:00-11:30 AM Pacific Time
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The Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) Public Health Subcommittee has developed the Health Services Rapid Assessment Tool for post-earthquake reconnaissance on hospitals and health services. The tool focuses on assessing public health impacts related to infrastructure and service disruptions caused by earthquakes. In this webinar, researchers who have developed and refined the tool will present the participatory process used to develop the tool, discuss its use on and lessons learned from a reconnaissance trip to Turkey in May, 2023, and explain the ongoing work of the Public Health Subcommittee.

Speakers:

• Shaya Christensen, Colorado State University
• Yvonne Merino Peña, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Colorado School of Public Health
• Luis Ceferino, New York University

View a video recording of this webinar here.

Wednesday, January 24, 2024
10:00-11:30 AM Pacific Time
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Join EERI for a webinar featuring the authors of two award-winning papers from our journal Earthquake Spectra! The webinar will showcase the papers selected for EERI's 2023 Outstanding Paper Award and the 2023 Graduate Student Paper Prize.

The 2023 Outstanding Paper Award winner is "Why AI models for predicting soil liquefaction have been ignored, plus some that shouldn’t be,” by Brett Maurer and Morgan Sanger. The 2023 Graduate Student Paper Prize was awarded to Gerald Palomino Romani et al. for the paper "Evaluating post-earthquake functionality and surge capacity of hospital emergency departments using discrete event simulation." In this webinar, the authors will present and discuss their papers with members of the Spectra editorial team and answer questions from the audience.

Speakers:

Brett Maurer, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington
Morgan Sanger, Ph.D. Candidate in geotechnical engineering, University of Washington
Gerald Palomino Romani, Structural Engineer, Ausenco
Helen Crowley, GEM Secretary-General and Editor of Earthquake Spectra (moderator)

Thursday, February 22, 2024
03:00-04:30 PM Pacific Time 
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The EERI Northern California Regional Chapter is hosting a FREE webinar on the earthquakes that struck the Nolo Peninsula on the west side of Japan. The shallow reverse-faulting shock achieved a Modified Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). The shaking and accompanying tsunami caused extensive damage making it the deadliest earthquake in Japan since the 2016. Peak ground accelerations exceeding 1g were recorded at several locations and striking crustal uplift exceeding 10 feet was observed along with numerous types of ground failures.

Speakers:

• Dr. Hiroyuki Goto of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University. He will present on the strong ground motions observed from the earthquake.
• Dr. Masataka Shiga of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology. He will present on the geotechnical aspects observed from the earthquake.

View a video recording of this webinar here. 

Wednesday, April 24, 2024
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Pacific Time
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EERI's 2024 Business Meeting will be held via Zoom webinar on Wednesday, April 24 at 11:00 AM Pacific Time. President Janiele Maffei, President-Elect Ellen Rathje, and Secretary/Treasurer Lucy Arendt will present on EERI's activities and achievements in 2023 and discuss plans for the future. Current EERI members may register to attend the meeting.