At 2:34 AM this morning (December 20, 2022) a M6.4 earthquake struck offshore near Ferndale, California, causing damage to lifelines and structures in Humboldt County. Visit the United States Geological Survey event page for more information about the earthquake. The EERI community extends...

EERI is pleased to announce that the 2022 Graduate Student Paper Prize is awarded to “Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis for Spatially Distributed Infrastructure Considering the Correlation of Spectral Acceleration Across Spectral Periods,” (Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 1148-1...

EERI is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2022 Outstanding Paper Award for Earthquake Spectra is “Behavioral responses to earthquake shaking: Video footage analysis of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand,” (Earthquake Spectra, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 16...

Effective December 7, 2022 As EERI continues to stay current with COVID-19 public safety guidelines, we are adjusting our own policies to reflect the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Community Levels prevention actions. The CDC classifies communities as having low, medium, or high levels of COVID-...

EERI is delighted to announce that the 2023 Annual Meeting will be held from April 11-14, 2023 in San Francisco, California. The 2023 Annual Meeting will celebrate and showcase the 50th anniversary of EERI’s flagship program, Learning From Earthquakes (LFE), which was formally established in 1973....

EERI is delighted to announce the Board of Directors has appointed Jack Baker (M.EERI 2004) Editor-in-Chief and Helen Crowley (M.EERI 2008) Editor of Earthquake Spectra. They will take up their new positions in January 2023. “EERI thanks David Wald for his four years of outstanding service as Edit...

EERI is pleased to announce that the recipients of the 2022 Younger Member Award are Dustin Cook (M.EERI 2018) and Diane Moug (M.EERI 2014). The EERI Younger Member Award is awarded to recognize early-career members of the Institute who have made outstanding contributions to the Earthquake Engineeri...

EERI is pleased to announce that the 2022 recipient of the Shah Family Innovation Prize is Gerard J. O'Reilly, in recognition of his significant and diverse research output and its impact on engineering practice, as well as his leadership in designing and coordinating international collaborations ac...

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) has named Judith Mitrani-Reiser (M.EERI 2001) the 2023 Distinguished Lecturer in recognition of her exemplary work on and support for investigations of building and infrastructure failures, disaster recovery and community resilience, and mult...

The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the Seismological Society of America (SSA) are pleased to announce that Jack Baker (M.EERI 2004), professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, is the 2023 recipient of the William B. Joyner Lecture Award. Baker will...

Gregory L. Deierlein (M. EERI 1989) has been named a 2023 EERI Honorary Member in recognition of his research on improving the design of constructed facilities through the development and application of nonlinear structural analysis methods and performance-based design criteria. Honorary member...

Ian G. Buckle (M. EERI 1989), President of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) from 2013 to 2014, has been named a 2023 EERI Honorary Member, in recognition of his lasting contributions to research on seismic and tsunami performance of bridge structures and his leadership of ef...