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EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERINGRESEARCH INSTITUTE

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE

PRESIDENT Ian G. Buckle

PAST PRESIDENT L. Thomas Tobin

VICE PRESIDENT David A. Friedman

SECRETARY-TREASURER Janiele Maffei

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Scott AshfordIan G. Buckle

Kenneth ElwoodDavid A. Friedman

Roberto LeonJaniele Maffei

Kathleen TierneyL. Thomas Tobin

Ivan Wong EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Jay Berger

NEWSLETTER

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News of the Institute

10NCEE: Abstract Deadline is June 15Abstracts for the 10th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering are due June 15, 2013. The conference will be held July 21-25, 2014 in Anchorage, Alaska. Technical Program topic areas include: Bridge Structures; Buildings; Structural and Non-Structural Systems; Earthquake Engineering in Extreme Environments; Education and Outreach; Experimental Methods; Information Technology and Collaboration Tools; Fire Following Earthquakes; Ground Motion; Seismicity; Seismic Hazard Assessment; High Performance Comput-ing and Simulation; Lessons Learned from Recent Earthquakes; Lifelines; Post-Disaster Response, Damage Assessment, and Recovery; Risk and Loss Assessment; Repair and Retrofit; Resilient Communities and Cities; Seismic Isolation, Energy Dissipation and Control Systems; Socio-Economic Issues and Public Policy; Soils; Foundations; Soil-Structure Interaction; Slope Stabil-ity; Subduction Zone Mega Earthquakes; and Tsunami Prediction, Design, and Recovery. Abstracts must be submitted online at: http://submissions.miracd.com/10NCEE/login.aspx. More information can be found at http://10ncee.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/10NCEE_Call-for-Papers.pdf.In addition to the great program for the Conference, the location makes this a special event. In July, Anchorage is at its best: plenty of sunshine, glistening glaciers, and moose aplenty! The local organizing committee, along with Visit

New Earthquake Photo GalleriesEERI has launched a fantastic new resource for members only — online photo galleries from many recent and important earthquakes. Included are galleries for over 30 earthquakes. Each gallery features from 30 to 300 images and all photos are searchable by keyword.These initial galleries are only the beginning! EERI will continue to add new galleries and is working on a bulk download option and an improved search feature. In the next few months, photos from the personal collection of Profes-sor George Housner, one of EERI’s founding members, will also be added. You can help us improve the site by contributing more photos, improving captions, identifying photographers, and providing feedback. Any comments should be sent to Chris Lee at chris@eeri.org.

Left: The Alaskan Railroad train departs north and south every day from Anchorage to Seward, Whittier, Talkeetna, Denali National Park, and Fair-banks. Right: A glacier cruise is a great way to see much of Alaska’s wildlife. Sea otters, whales, sea birds and seals basking on floating icebergs are often spotted on these cruises.

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News of the Institute

EERI Technical Semi-nar Videos AvailableVideos of the presentations made as part of the 2012 EERI Technical Seminar Series are now available in the EERI Knowledge Center and Online Store. The topic of the series was “Learning from Recent Major Earthquakes: Lessons for Practice.” The presentations include: “Seismo-logical Lessons from Recent Earth-quakes,” by David Wald, USGS; “Geotechnical Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku & 2010-11 Christchurch Earthquakes,” by Ross Boulanger, UC Davis; “The Built Environment,” by Bill Holmes, Rutherford & Chek-ene, and Jack Moehle, UC Berkeley; and “Societal Impacts: Prepared-ness, Response, Recovery, Risk Management and Resilience,” by Laurie Johnson. Videos of individual presentations are $45. EERI mem-bers, remember to login to receive the 15% members discount. To pur-chase the videos, visit: https://www.eeri.org/products-page/learning-from-recent-major-earthquakes-lessons-for-practice/.

David Wald discussing seismological lessons from the 2011 Tohoku earth-quake and tsunami during the 2012 EERI Technical Seminar Series

EERI Arts & Letters WebinarStructural engineer and novelist Professor Michel Bruneau, M. EERI, will par-ticipate in the first program of the new EERI Arts and Letters webinar series on Tuesday, May 21 at 11 am PDT. Bob Reitherman, M. EERI, will interview Pro-fessor Bruneau about his novel, Shaken Allegiances, which takes place in the immediate aftermath of a magnitude 7 earthquake that has struck Montréal. The spectacular damage caused by such a large earthquake centered directly under a major metropolitan area provides the drama to the plot. However, being an earthquake engineering expert, Professor Bruneau presents the sce-nario in terms that are as realistic as they are dramatic — a treat, therefore, not only for the general reader but also the seismically astute members of EERI. The program will be broadcast through GoToWebinar, please visit https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2082421497002894592 to register for this free program.

NEES-EERI Webinar on Tsunami Design“Development of Tsunami Design Provisions” is the next in the Research to Practice Webinar Series co-produced by the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) and EERI. There is no cost to attend. To register, visit https://neesevents.webex.com/mw0307l/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=neesevents. PDHs will be available from EERI after the webinar for $30.In 2005 NSF funded a 5-year NEESR research project to develop Perfor-mance Based Tsunami Engineering (PBTE). The objective of this study was to fill the gap between tsunami modeling, which had traditionally focused on tsunami generation and transoceanic propagation for evacuation planning, and the actual performance of coastal structures during tsunami inundation, which was rather unknown for U.S. construction. Experiments performed in the NEES Tsunami Wave Facility at OSU and in the Hydraulics Laboratory at UH Manoa have led to enhanced inundation modeling and improved understanding of fluid loading on structural elements. Subsequent to recent tsunamis in Samoa (2009), Chile (2010) and Japan (2011), loading equations derived from the laboratory findings were applied to full-scale scenarios to evaluate any scale effects during validation analyses. Additional lessons learned from extensive surveys after these events have augmented the framework of the laboratory research findings.Current structural design codes in the U.S. do not address tsunami design at all. Recent damaging tsunamis in the Pacific Ocean have highlighted the need for such design requirements for tsunami-prone regions of the US, both for pre-event resilience and appropriate post-event reconstruction and recovery. On completion of the NEES PBTE project, research team members initiated an effort to develop design code provisions. As a result, in February 2011 the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) formed a new sub-committee under ASCE-7 to develop design requirements for tsunami loads and effects. After two years, this sub-committee has developed a draft chapter on Tsunami Loads and Effects. When approved by ASCE-7, these requirements will be incorporated into ASCE-7, Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, and building codes.Webinar presenters will provide an overview of the NEES research projects and field observations that have led to this development, and summarize ele-ments of what will become the first national tsunami structural design standard for coastal structures.

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California Clearing-house May ExerciseOn May 15 from 10 am to 1 pm (PDT), the California Earthquake Clearinghouse will be conducting activities as part of the 2013 Califor-nia Golden Guardian Exercise. This is the third in a series of six sched-uled exercises where the Clearing-house is testing its communications and data sharing protocols. The Clearinghouse will set up a virtual clearinghouse site for the scenario earthquake, a repeat of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.EERI members interested in earth-quake reconnaissance are encour-aged to participate in the exercise by visiting the virtual clearinghouse site, providing updates through Spo-tOnResponse (the Clearinghouse’s situational awareness tool), providing photos or notes of “damage” using FieldNotes LT or PRO, or providing information through the short forms in the Clearinghouse Field Notes app. More information about how to use these apps can be found on this page: http://www.californiaeqclear-inghouse.org/field-tools/.Those interested in participating in the exercise are encouraged to attend one of four training sessions before the exercise. Dates and times of the training sessions can be found here: http://www.californiaeqclear-inghouse.org/2013-golden-guardian-exercise-3/.To receive updates about the exer-cise, please join the Clearinghouse website by filling out the form on this page: http://www.californiaeqclear-inghouse.org/user-request-form/. If you are already a Clearinghouse member, please update your profile through the link on this page: http://www.californiaeqclearinghouse.org/members/. (Please note that the Cali-fornia Clearinghouse website is now located at: http://www.californiaeq-clearinghouse.org.)

Nominations Sought for 2014 Distinguished LecturerThe EERI Honors Committee will meet soon to consider candidates for the Distinguished Lecturer Award for 2014. The Committee welcomes nomina-tions from members of the Institute. All nominations must be sent to EERI at eeri@eeri.org by June 30, 2013, accompanied by a brief justification. Since 1992, EERI has honored leaders in the earthquake profession through this annual award. The lecture is always presented for the first time at the EERI Annual Meeting and then at a series of student chapter meetings nationwide. Past awardees are listed on this page: https://www.eeri.org/about-eeri/honors-awards/award-recipients/. For a complete description of the award, visit http://www.eeri.org/about-eeri/honors-awards/distinguished-lecture-award.

Anchorage, has put together a list of things to see and do in Alaska before and after the conference. Activities include biking past incredible views of Cook’s Inlet, glacier cruises, and much more! Explore the entire list here: http://www.10ncee.org/things-to-do-in-alaska.

Access to these galleries will be through a new MEMBER RESOURCES AREA of the EERI website. To login and view the galleries, visit: https://eeri.org/cohost/members-only/.

EERI would especially like to thank the EERI Graduate Interns who helped compile the galleries: Ruben Negrete, Alice Ng, Emmett Seymour, Stefanie Rae Arizabal, Chiara McKenney, Michael Germeraad, Mariana Chavez, Tammy Chang, Maggie Ortiz, Jonathon Tai, Hannah Gallagher, Chris Lee, and Patrick Bassal.

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News of the Profession

SF Passes Soft Story LegislationOn April 14, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to approve the Mandatory Soft Story Retrofit Ordinance. The bill was signed into law by Mayor Ed Lee on April 18 at Lotta’s Fountain during a ceremony commemorating the 107th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake. The ordinance requires retrofits for wood-frame buildings with five or more residential units, having at least two stories over a weak story and built prior to 1978. The seven-year implementation program will begin in late 2013 with a one-year screening and evaluation process. In March,

San Francisco soft story building dam-aged in the 1989 Loma Prieta EQ.

Christchurch EQs Workshop ReportA summary report on the Christ-church Earthquakes Workshop that took place on February 12, 2013 ahead of the EERI Annual Meet-ing in Seattle is now available. The report highlights lessons learned from Canterbury Sequence. Speak-ers at the workshop included: David Johnston, GNS; Kelvin Ber-ryman, GNS; Tom Rasmussen, Seattle City Councilman; Mark Pierepiekarz, MPR Engineering; John Hare, Holmes Consulting; and John Hamilton, New Zealand Civil Defense Ministry. You can read the report here: http://2013am.eeri.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Christ-churchWorkshopSummaryReport.pdf and view the presentations from the workshop here: http://2013am.eeri.org/conference-presentations/christchurch-earthquakes-workshop-presentations.

Course on Direct Displacement-Based Design of BuildingsThis short course will introduce participants to displacement-based seismic design and demonstrate how it can be implemented as a simple and rational alternative to current prescriptive methods of seismic design. The course will show the serious conceptual problems with current force-based seismic design provisions. The course will take place on Thursday, May 9 from 1 pm to 6 pm and on Friday, May 10 from 8 am - 5:30 pm in the PG&E Audi-torium at 245 Market Street in San Francisco, CA. Registration rates are $350 for SEAONC members, $400 for non-members, and $125 for stu-dents. EERI members are eligible for the SEAONC member rate. On-site registration will also be available. For more information and to register, visit: http://seaonc.org/civicrm/event/register?id=26&reset=1.

EERI Chapter News

Northern CA Building Inventory EventThe City of Albany and EERI’s North-ern California Chapter are looking for volunteers to survey buildings in Albany. The data collected will be used for an Albany-specific HAZUS run to help identify the city’s seis-mic vulnerabilities as a first step in crafting mitigation policies. Volun-teers will survey neighborhoods on foot and compile basic information on selected buildings. It is a great opportunity to get some fresh air, meet like-minded seismic advocates, and contribute a valuable public ser-vice by increasing seismic safety for the City of Albany.The survey will be conducted on Sat-urday, June 8, 2013. Volunteers will meet at Albany City Hall at 1000 San Pablo Avenue and sign-in for break-fast and a short training talk (starts at 9:00 am) covering administrative, safety, and technical points. As many volunteers as possible are needed, so save the date and sign up now! Help the chapter plan the event by registering at http://www.eerinc.org/?p=1465 by May 31.

EERI sent a letter to the San Fran-cisco Board of Supervisors express-ing support for the ordinance.

Announcements

Surface Fault Rupture WorkshopA workshop on Surface Fault Rup-ture will be held at the Orange Coun-ty Water District office in Southern California on Friday, May 10 from 8 am – 4:30 pm. This Workshop will focus on the latest geotechnical and structural engineering concepts to mitigate surface fault rupture. The

interdisciplinary forum allows the participants to go beyond the current regulatory restriction of total fault avoidance regardless of site-specific procedures now available to mitigate risk to life and property. Speakers include Jonathan Bray, UC Berkeley; Craig Comartin, CDComartin, Inc.; Alan Kropp, Alan Kropp & Associ-ates; Roy Shlemon, Roy J. Shlemon & Associates; Thomas Rockwell, SDSU & International Earth Consul-tants; and Charles Nestle, Los An-geles Department of Public Works. The registration rate is $85 and a sandwich lunch and drinks will be provided. If there is space available, registration at the door will be $100, but lunch may not be provided.

For more information about the work-shop and registration, see the flyer here: https://www.eeri.org/wp-con-tent/uploads/Surface-Fault-Rupture-Workshop.pdf or contact Eldon Gath by phone at 714-412-263 or by email at gath@earthconsultants.com.

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US-NZ Science & Risk Comm. WorkshopThe US-New Zealand Joint Committee Meeting (JCM) on Science and Technology Cooperation working group established a cross-cutting theme on science and risk communication. The JCM working group will identify communication strategies that provide information to engage the public, to reduce confusion, and to help evaluate risk and to determine appropriate actions. These communication strategies will focus on topics including natural hazards, climate change, health and oceans; and will consider various timescales from immediate to long-term. A pre-meeting workshop to coordinate dialogue between NZ and the US on developing these communication strategies will take place on Saturday, July 13, 2013 from 1 pm to 5 pm at the Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield,

Int’l Workshop on Remote Sensing and Disaster ManagementSince 2003, an international con-sortium of remote sensing experts has organized an annual workshop focused on remote sensing and disaster management. The series of workshops brought together hundreds engineers and scientists, disaster researchers, and emergency managers from around the world to exchange ideas and research results. The original workshop orga-nizers include Professor Masanobu Shinozuka (University of California at Irvine), Professor Fumio Yamazaki (Chiba University) and Ronald T. Eguchi (ImageCat, Inc.). The first workshop was held in Irvine, Califor-nia in 2003, and most recently the 2012 workshop was held at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, in com-memoration of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Beginning in 2014, the series is tran-sitioning from an annual workshop structure to a biennial symposium. Moving to this larger structure allows for increased participation, includ-ing decision and policy makers and a larger segment of the end-user community, in addition to the base of researchers and scientists who already participate. The symposium organization would reside within a permanent entity but the symposium may take place in appropriate cities around the world. In addition to tra-ditional avenues of participation (at-symposium presentations, break-out

discussions and vendor booths), this new symposium series will leverage social media and networking tech-nologies to broaden participation. Potentially, half of the conference will be conducted in a virtual environ-ment.A complete and comprehensive summary of all past ten workshops, including agendas, papers, presenta-tions and workshop resolutions can be found at the following website: http://mceer.buffalo.edu/research/Remote_Sensing/Workshop_Series/default.asp.For more information on the 2014 Symposium, please contact: Ron Eguchi at rte@imagecatinc.com, Fumio Yamazaki at fumio.yamazaki@faculty.chiba-u.jp, Mar-jorie Greene at mgreene@eeri.org, or Jane Stoyle Welch at jestoyle@buffalo.edu.

USGS Seeks Propos-als for EQ ResearchEach year the USGS awards earth-quake hazards research grants to universities, state geological surveys and private institutions. The U.S. Geological Survey will award up to $4 million in grants for earthquake hazards research in 2014. Past proj-ects include cataloging earthquakes in southern California to prepare emergency responders, the public and the media about earthquakes; providing seismic hazard estimates so communities and critical institu-tions can engineer their buildings and roads to be structurally sound; and analyzing data on ground shak-ing to help minimize damage. Inter-ested researchers can apply online at GRANTS.GOV under funding opportunity number G13AS00029. Applications are due June 6, 2013. The full announcement can be found in the USGS Newsroom at: http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3562.

CO, coinciding with the 38th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Application Workshop. The workshop will consist of short informal presentations, panel discussions and break-out discussions. New Zealand and US researchers wishing to participate should contact Richard Smith (rsmith@eqc.govt.nz) or David Johnston (david.johnston@gns.cri.nz) by May 10, 2013.

Publication

Elements of EQ Eng. & Struct. Dynamics The third edition of Elements of Earthquake Engineering and Struc-tural Dynamics is now available. The book, co-authored by EERI member Andre Filiatrault, is intended for senior undergraduate and gradu-ate structural engineering students and is also a resource for university educators and practicing engineers. It presents the key elements of earth-quake engineering and structural dynamics at an introductory level and gives readers the basic knowledge they need to apply the seismic pro-visions contained in Canadian and American building codes. The scope of this book is not limited to structural analysis and design; it also dis-cusses the basics of other relevant topics such as seismology, seismic risk analysis and geotechnical engi-neering, to help structural engineers work efficiently with other specialists on earthquake-resistant construction

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Opportunities

Bauhaus Master’s ProgramThe Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is offering a master’s degree program in Natural Hazards and Risks in Structural Engineering (NHRE). The program is an intensive and applica-tion-based advanced course of study. The program is highly supervised and research-oriented. It provides students a solid technical basis in the key areas of structural engineer-ing through a coherent and coordi-nated degree program, integrating research and practical applications. Main areas covered by the master’s course are earthquake engineer-ing and structural design, geo- and hydro-technical engineering, finite element methods and structural dynamics, non-linear analysis of structures under extreme loading, stochastic and risk assessment, and disaster management and mitiga-tion strategies. The course program covers both theoretical and appli-cation-oriented topics. The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grants four to seven scholarships to admitted applicants of the mas-ter’s course in NHRE through the “Development-Related Postgraduate Courses: Educating Professionals for Sustainable Development” pro-gram. The scholarships begin in the winter semester. Students who would like to apply for a scholarship must submit their applications to university before October 15 of the year prior to the desired start at the University. Further information about the focus

Summer Program on Model Validation & SimulationBauhaus-Universität Weimar and 13 Partner Universities from Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lux-embourg, Portugal, United Kingdom, Switzerland and Turkey will present special topics of structural engineer-ing in a summer program to be held August 4–16, 2013, at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in Germany. The program is funded by the European Commission Lifelong Learning Pro-gramme. Through a challenging and demanding series of lectures, as well as seminars and project work, presented with state-of-the-art infor-mation and communication technol-ogy, this program seeks to impart knowledge and to combine research with a practical context. The course is tailored to advanced master’s and doctoral candidates in the fields of structural engineering, numerical simulation and modeling, and their applications to natural hazards, risk management, geodynamics, and foundation engineering. The course language is English. The course fee is €450. A small number of schol-arships are available. A letter of application and an abstract must be submitted by May 15. For more infor-mation, visit http://www.uni-weimar.de/summerschool/mvs.

Disaster Loss Analysis PositionThe Center for Disaster Manage-ment and Risk Reduction Technology (CEDIM) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has a position

projects. Chapters end with a set of problems giving readers an insight into practical aspects of the subject. The book can be ordered online here: http://www.presses-polytech-nique.ca/en/elements-of-earthquake-engineering-and-structural-dynam-ics-3rd-edition.

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of the scholarship program can be obtained from the DAAD website (https://www.daad.de/entwicklung/hochschulen/zusammenarbeit/ast/08079.en.html).For more information and to apply, visit http://www.uni-weimar.de/nhre.

available for candidates with a back-ground in quantitative and statistical disaster loss analyses. Casual Loss Analysis at CEDIM includes project-ing historic events to present condi-tions, measuring socio-economic factors in previous disasters, and developing a standard capacity rela-tion between the intensity of impact and losses. Work will be conducted with an interdisciplinary team of engineers and natural and social sci-entists to relate historic disaster loss data with socio-economic indicators that reflect the vulnerabilities, resil-ience and socio-economic status of countries. Qualified applicants should have a strong background in quan-titative and statistical disaster loss analyses including socio-economic aspects. The applicant should pref-erably have a PhD, but this is not a strict prerequisite. Work should start on July 1, 2013. Salary will be according to KIT conditions and qual-ifications. For more information about the position and to apply, contact Friedemann Wenzel at friedemann.wenzel@kit.edu.

Guatemala.A dynamic and interactive web-based report, which will include recom-mendations for future collaboration between EERI and AGIES, will be available in mid-June. As this report is a collaborative effort between EERI, AGIES, and the World Bank, it will also include information about the state of design and construction practice in the country, some socio-economic background, and the state of disaster mitigation and policy in the country.

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CALENDAR

The issues containing the first and subsequent appearances are indi-cated at the entry’s end. Items listed for the first time are shown in bold.2013MAY 3. Los Angeles Tall Building Council 2013 Conference, Los Angeles. www.tallbuildings.org. (3/13)9-10. SEAONC Short Course on Direct Displacement-Based Design of Buildings, San Francisco, CA. See page 4 (5/13)10. Surface Fault Rupture Workshop, Fountain Valley, CA. See page 4 (5/13)15. California Clearinghouse May Exercise, See page 3. (5/13)16. NEES-EERI Webinar: Development of Tsunami Design Provisions, See page 2. (5/13)16-17. Build It Better Leadership Forum, Charlotte, NC. http://www.mitigationleadership.com (1/13)

19-23. 4th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Geneva Switzerland. http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/trainings-events/events/v.php?id=23896 (1/12, 7/12)

20-22. 7th National Seismic Conf. on Bridges & Highways, Oakland, CA. http://www.7nsc.info/default.asp (9/12)21. EERI Arts and Letters Webinar, See page 2. (5/13)28- June 1. 6th China-Japan-US Trilateral Symposium on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, Chengdu, China. http://www.iacge.org (3/13)

29-31. International Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Skopje, Macedonia. www.se-50eee.org (2/13)

JUNE 5. Seismic Retrofit of Masonry Buildings Seminar, Vancouver, BC. http://www.seabc.ca/events. (5/13)16-20. 11th Int’l Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOS-SAR2013), New York City. http://icossar2013.org/ (8/12)

JULY13. U.S-N.Z. Science and Risk Communications Workshop, Broomfield, CO. See page 4. (5/13)

AUGUST 18-23. 22nd Int’l Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT-22), San Francisco. www.smirt22.org. (2/12, 4/12, 10/12, 2/13) 28-30. Vienna Congress on Recent Advances in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (VEESD2013). Vienna, Austria. http://veesd2013.conf.tuwien.ac.at (8/12)SEPTEMBER 5-7. 4th EUGEO Congress, Rome, Italy. www.eugeo2013.com. (3/13)8-12. Int’l Conference on Earth- quakes & Structures (ΙCEAS-2013), Jeju, Korea (part of the World Congress on Advances in Struc- tural Engineering & Mechanics [ASEM13]). http://asem.cti3.com/asem13.htm (1/13)17-21. 2013 SEAOC Convention, San Diego, CA. (1/13)25-28. 38th DFI Annual Conference on Deep Foundations, Phoenix, Ari-zona. http://www.dfi.org/conferen-cedetail.asp?id=226. (12/12)26-27. International Conference on Seismic Design of Facilities, Aachen, Germany. www.SeDIF-Conference.de (2/13)

OCTOBER 25-27. 2nd IACGE Int’l Conference on Geotechnical & Earthquake Engineering, Chengdu, China. www.iacge2013.org. (12/12) NOVEMBER8-9. 5th Int’l Conf. on Advances in Experimental Structural Engineer-ing (5AESE), Taipei, Taiwan. http://aese5.ncree.narl.org.tw (11/12) 2014 APRIL 30-May 2. Annual Meeting, Seismo-logical Society of America, Anchor-age, Alaska. http://www.seismosoc.org/meetings/ (7/12) JULY7-9. 9th Int’l Masonry Conf, Gui-marães, Portugal. http://www.9imc.civil.uminho.pt. (4/13)11-14. 7th Int’l Conf on Bridge Main-tenance, Safety, and Management (IABMAS 2014), Shanghai, China. http://www.iabmas2014.org (11/12)13-16. 2nd Int’l Conference on Vul-nerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM2014) & 6th Int’l Symposium on Uncertainty Mod-eling and Analysis (ISUMA2014), Liv-erpool, UK, http://www.icvram2014.org (1/13)21-25. 10th Nat’l Conference on Earthquake Engineering, EERI Annual Meeting, & NEES Quake Summit 2014, Anchorage, Alaska. http://10ncee.org. See page 1. (9/12, 1/13, 2/13, 5/13 )

AUGUST24-29. Second European Confer-ence on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Istanbul, Turkey. www.2eceeistanbul.org (2/13)

NOVEMBER16-19. 3rd International Symposium on Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE). Tokyo, Japan. http://www.ialcce2014.org (11/12)

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News of the Institute

EERI Endowment DonorsEERI would like to thank these Endowment Fund donors and acknowledge their recent contribu-tions. EERI’s endowment supports innovative projects that ensure the Institute’s continuing leadership in the earthquake professions.

$1,000John Call$250James Kelly$100David FrostPaul GilbertKubilay HicyilmazAvidgor RutenbergKeri Ryan

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Learning from Earthquakes

Guatemala Field Study UpdateDuring the first week of April, EERI sent a team of seven people to Guatemala to learn about the damage from the November 2012 earthquake and the ongo-ing rebuilding efforts. The trip was funded by a grant from the World Bank. The team travelled with four members of AGIES (the Guatemalan Association of Seismic and Earthquake Engineering) to the cities of San Marcos and San Pedro Sacatepequez-- the areas damaged most by the earthquake. The trip also included a visit to the local University to learn about the growing structural engineering program of study and the challenges being faced. The trip ended in Guatemala City with a meeting of representatives from EERI, AGIES, the World Bank and other stakeholders in the country. This meeting was an oppor-tunity to open lines of communication between different agencies and stimulate more collaboration in order to reduce the risk from future earthquakes in the

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The EERI team with members of AGIES and local engineers, archi-tects, and engineering professors in Zunil, Guatemala