Learning from Earthquakes
EEFIT Mission Training course
The Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) Mission Training course aims to prepare future Team Leaders by sharing guidance and lessons learned from past earthquake reconnaissance missions.
Haiti, Puerto Rico & Chile
Learning from earthquakes team (UK) expresses its solidarity with the population and authorities from Puerto Rico
EEFIT mission for the Albania earthquake
EEFIT mission for the Albania earthquake
EEFIT return missions 2020
Do not forget to apply !!!. Deadline: The 15th January 2020.bit.ly/39lFx1I
EEFIT mission for the Albania earthquake finishes
EEFIT mission for the Albania earthquake came to its end
Report on Sulawesi
The EEFIT Mission report of the Central Sulawesi, Indonesia Earthquake and Tsunami of 28th September 2018 has been published. It is also available on our Resources webpage.
Earthquake in Albania
The Project Team would like to express its solidarity with the victims of the Earthquake in Albania.
EEFIT mission Mission report: Gorkha, Nepal April 2015 in PreventionWeb
EEFIT mission Mission report: Gorkha, Nepal April 2015 in PreventionWeb
Tsunami Awareness Day 2019
Tsunami Awareness Day
SECED evening hosted at ICE
What does true resilience mean for developing countries?
Seismic performance & post-earthquake reconstruction of stone masonry houses
Seismic performance & post-earthquake reconstruction of stone masonry houses in Nepal
EPICentre's Director, Prof Rossetto Interview with Turkish New Channel NTV
EPICentre's Director, Prof Rossetto Interview with Turkish New Channel NTV [Turkish Version]
Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) training
Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) training
DKG 2019: Urban-Rural Infrastructure Interdependencies
Dr Diana Contreras presented: "Socio-economic Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: Interdependencies of Healthcare Infrastructure. The case of Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile"
SECED 2019 - EEFIT Session - Fragility Functions in Seismic Risk Assessment
Dr Viviana Novelli from Briston University presented: "Post-earthquake building surveys to derive fragility functions for use in seismic risk assessments"
SECED 2019 - EEFIT Session - EEFIT return missions
Ms Valentina Putrino presented: The benefit of return missions for a better understanding of building's behaviour under repeated shakings: the case of Norcia, Italy"
SECED 2019 - EEFIT Session - Tsunami fieldwork by EEFIT
Dr Joshua Macabuag presented: "Lessons learned from post-tsunami fieldwork by EEFIT"
SECED 2019 - EEFIT Session - Christchurch & Gorkha earthquakes
Dr Sean Wilkinson presented:"The rewards of earthquake engineering - differences between Christchurch and Gorkha earthquakes"
SECED 2019 - EEFIT Session - Lessons from earthquake fieldwork
Ms Katerine Coates presented: "Lessons from earthquake fieldwork for seismic retrofit design"
SECED 2019 - EEFIT Session - EEFIT Missions over time
Dr Mathew Free presented: "A review of EEFIT mission over time 1983 to 2019"
SECED 2019 - Keynote speaker
Prof. Dr Dina D'Ayala was invited as the keynote speaker to present: "Can probabilistic performance-based engineering be extended to other hazards?
SECED 2019 - EEFIT-TDMRC mission to Sulawesi
Prof. Dr Tiziana Rosseto presented: Mission to Central Sulawesi earthquake 2018.
SECED 2019 - School reconstruction in Nepal
Ms Louis Westoby presented: challenges affecting school reconstruction in Nepal
Nepal report
The EEFIT Field Mission Report on the MW 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake of 25 April 2015 has been published. You can find it at https://tinyurl.com/y34ojm3e.
meeting INAIGEM
Dr Nathan Forthsyte and Dr Diana Contreras interchanged knowledge and experiences in the topics of glaciers, landslides and earthquakes with colleagues from the National Institute of Research in Glaciers and Mountain ecosystems (INAIGEM)
meeting UNASAM
Dr Nathan Forthsyte and Dr Diana Contreras explored opportunities of collaboration in the topics of earthquakes and landslides with the National University of Santiago Antunez Mayolo (UNASAM) in Huaraz, Peru
Visiting Huaraz (Peru)
Dr Nathan Forthsyte and Dr Diana Contreras visited the city of Huaraz (Peru). This city was struck by the 1970 Ancash earthquake (7.9 Mw). The earthquake triggered a snow avalanche from the Huascaran Mount buried the town of Yungai.
Meeting CERESIS
Dr Nathan Forthsyte and Dr Diana Contreras met Mr Leandro Rodriguez, the Executive Director of the seismic Regional Center for South America (CERESIS) during their visit to Peru in the framework of the GCA: ‘pump-priming’ activity in Peru.
EEFIT Mobile App Testing
Valentina Putrino is with The EEDM students of the UCL testing the Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) Mobile App !!!
I-REC 2019 Conference
I-REC Conference 2019: Disrupting the status quo: Reconstruction, recovery and resisting disaster risk creation
PCEE 2019 Conference
Dr Sean Wilkinson attended the Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering (PCEE2019)
