News & Events
2022 EEFIT return mission to Nepal: Results
On September 13th, the 2022 EEFIT return mission to Nepal presented the fieldwork results at the IstructE headquarters in London.
Last modified: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:32:08 BST
2022 EEFIT Nepal return mission - Presentation of results 
2022 EEFIT Nepal return mission:Shared knowledge on earthquake recovery and reconstruction
Last modified: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:42:04 BST
Hybrid Reconnaissance Mission to the 30 October 2020 Aegean Earthquake 
The team project LfE (UK) announces the most recent publication: Hybrid Reconnaissance Mission to the 30 October 2020 Aegean Sea Earthquake and Tsunami (Izmir, Turkey & Samos, Greece): Description of Data Collection Methods and Damage
Last modified: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 14:19:29 BST
EEFIT Research Grant 2022
EEFIT RESEARCH GRANT is OPEN. Supporting short-term projects that will benefit earthquake (& related hazards) Disaster mitigation & post-disaster reconnaissance efforts, up to 2 AWARDS of £1,500. Deadline: 17:00 on Friday 15 July 2022
Last modified: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 13:27:49 BST
EEFIT Return mission to Nepal 2022
The LfE UK team supports the EEFIT return mission to Nepal to evaluate the recovery. Workshop: May 23rd, Hotel Shanker, Kathmandu. To attend, please email michael.whitworth@aecom.com & shuva.sharma@swnepal.com.np
Last modified: Thu, 12 May 2022 15:41:40 BST
Tell me your risk: Science behind the scenes
Dr Diana Contreras was interviewed for the podcast: 'Tell me your risk: Science behind the scenes' organised by the Institute of Geography of UNAM.
Last modified: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 17:14:35 GMT
Accuracy of a SA classification model on tweets related to the Albanian quake
We are extremely happy to share the latest publication in the frame of the project: 'Accuracy of a pre-trained SA classification model on tweets related to emergency response and early recovery assessment: 2019 Albanian earthquake'
Last modified: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:37:46 GMT
Intensity-Based Sentiment and Topic Analysis. Aegean Earthquake
It is our pleasure to share the most recent publication in the frame of the project: 'Intensity-Based Sentiment and Topic Analysis. This publication is part of the Special issue:'Hybrid Disaster Reconnaissance missions'.
Last modified: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 15:12:33 GMT
SRALA 2021
Professor Carolina Martinez from the PUC of Chile invited Dr Diana Contreras, from the LfE UK team to the Round Table:'Reconstruction processes in Chile: experiences and challenges for public policies' at the SRALA2021 conference
Last modified: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 11:58:57 GMT
EEFIT/LfE (UK) Training sessions 
An average of 22 participants attended the three training sessions organised by EEFIT and part of the team of the project Learning from Earthquakes(LfE) UK team project
Last modified: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 20:32:14 GMT
Earthquake Reconnaissance Data Sources, a Literature Review
Contreras, D., Wilkinson, S., & James, P. (2021). Earthquake Reconnaissance Data Sources, a Literature Review. Earth, 2(4), 1006-1037. doi:10.3390/earth2040060
Last modified: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:20:12 GMT
EEFIT/LfE-UK Training sessions 2021
EEFIT mission online training: Mission launch - Fieldwork - Data management. November 16th, 23rd and 30th,2021 at 18:00 - 19:30 GMT. Places available for EEFIT members.
Last modified: Mon, 08 Nov 2021 07:15:07 GMT
Evening Lectures 2021
A total of 194 people attended the two Evening Lectures organised as part of the Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) 2021 training sessions
Last modified: Mon, 08 Nov 2021 07:42:15 GMT
EEFIT Evening Lectures 2021
Learning from Earthquakes Team invites to the EEFIT Evening Lectures on October 4 & 11 2021. Lectures will be online, free to all and from 18:00 to 19:30 (BST). Registration is now open
Last modified: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 07:48:39 BST
Observations from the 26th November 2019 Albania earthquake 
Freddi et al (2021). Observations from the 26th November 2019 Albania earthquake: the earthquake engineering field investigation team (EEFIT) mission. Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering. doi:10.1007/s10518-021-01062-8
Last modified: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 09:16:46 GMT
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The team project from Newcastle University presented at the 17WCEE: Assessing post-disaster recovery using SA based on Twitter data. The cases of L'Aquila, Chile and Haiti.
Last modified: Sun, 03 Oct 2021 10:32:20 BST
17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE)
Team project invites to attend the presentation:'Assessing Post-disaster Recovery Using SA. The case of L'Aquila, Haiti and Chile' by Dr Diana Contreras. Session O02A11 at the 17WCEE.
Last modified: Fri, 01 Oct 2021 08:16:44 BST
37th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission (ESC 2021)
Successful participation of the Learning from Earthquake (LfE) team from Newcastle University and EMSC at the 37th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission (ESC 2021)
Last modified: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 15:15:08 BST
37th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission (ESC 2021)
Team project & EMSC invites to attend the 37th General Assembly of the European Seismological Commission. Session 11: From School Seismology to Citizen Science & Session 01: Machine learning solutions to seismic problems
Last modified: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 13:11:39 BST
Virtual Capacity Building workshop on Regional SDI's
Virtual Capacity Building Workshop on Regional Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for sustainable Development in ECO countries
Last modified: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 14:55:00 BST
Assessing post-disaster recovery using sentiment analysis: The case of L’Aquila,
The result of the application of sentiment analysis (SA) for the assessment of post-disaster recovery processes using Twitter data taking the opportunity the commemoration the 10th Anniversary of the earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy
Last modified: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 19:28:14 BST
The Aegean earthquake report published
This EEFIT Field Mission report details the effects of the Mw 6.9 earthquake which struck the Aegean coasts of Greece and Turkey on the 30th October 2020.
Last modified: Wed, 26 May 2021 18:06:31 BST
EEFIT Research Grant 
The LfE UK team invites to apply for the EEFIT grant £1,500. Deadline: July 16th, 2021. At: https://www.istructe.org/training-and-development/apply-for-grants/eefit-research-grants/
Last modified: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 15:57:01 BST
The role of social media in emergency response and post-disaster recovery
The talk: 'The role of social media in emergency response and post-disaster recovery' was attended by Faculty members and students from la Universidad de Valparaiso in Chile and practitioners from Colombia.
Last modified: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 12:40:41 BST
The role of social media in emergency response and post-disaster recovery
Dr Diana Contreras is going to present at la Universidad de Valparaíso in Chile the role of social media in emergency response and post-disaster recovery, with a special focus on the 10th anniversary of the Maule earthquake and tsunami
Last modified: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 09:35:19 BST
Special Issue: Hybrid Disaster Reconnaissance Missions
Disaster Reconnaissance Missions: Is a hybrid approach the way forward? Contributions to the special issue: Hybrid Disaster Reconnaissance at Frontiers in the built environment are welcome.
Last modified: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:59:41 BST
1st Croatian Conference on Earthquake Engineering (1CroCEE 2021)
Preliminary results of the project are presented at the 1CroCEE 2021 on March 23rd. Sessions 2A & Session 2D. Additional information at https://crocee.grad.hr/event/1/
Last modified: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 14:53:00 BST
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Learn how to reduce damage and facilitate disaster recovery through earthquake-resilient engineering
Last modified: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 09:53:23 BST
The 22nd March 2020 Zagreb earthquake remote mission
SECED and EEFIT invites to watch the record of the webinar released by ICE: Remote earthquake reconnaissance feasibility study: March 2020 Zagreb earthquake
Last modified: Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:48:42 GMT
Aegean mission presentation 
The record of the presentation of the Aegean earthquake reconnaissance mission is already available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd1HHvRHM2o&t=4576s
Last modified: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:36:58 GMT
Earthquakes in Indonesia and Argentina
The project team would like to express its solidarity with the inhabitants of Indonesia's Sulawesi island and San Juan, Argentina for the earthquakes that struck these areas on the 15th and 19th January. Our thoughts are with you.
Last modified: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:42:30 GMT
Earthquake in Turkey & Greece
The project team would like to express its solidarity with the inhabitants of Izmir in Turkey and Samos in Greece, affected by the Earthquake on the 30th October added to the crisis caused by the COVIDー19 pandemic in Europe.
Last modified: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:04:26 GMT
17WCEE proceedings 
The 17WCEE conference proceedings have been released !!! team members invite you to read one of the outputs of our project published in this conference proceedings
Last modified: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:10:38 BST
EEFIT & SECED_UK evening talk
Learning from Earthquakes team invites to the 1st co-badged EEFIT and SECED_UK evening talk of 2021 entitled:'Remote earthquake reconnaissance feasibility study: Zagreb earthquake of March 2020'
Last modified: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:16:40 GMT
EEFIT fieldwork mission - Aegean earthquake 
Fieldwork started on November 30 and will be on-going until December 13, 2020. The mission on fieldwork will be undertaken by Mr Eser Çabuk and Mr Anil köşker, Master Students and Research Assistants from METU.
Last modified: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 16:07:12 GMT
EEFIT mission - Aegean earthquake 
Introductory meeting to the EEFIT mission for the Aegean Earthquake led by Dr Yasemin Aktas. The mission will take place from November 30 to December 13, 2020, and the team will be integrated by 24 members from the academy and Industry.
Last modified: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 16:10:21 GMT
Lecture: 2020 EEFIT Aegean earthquake mission
Learning from Earthquakes (LfE) team invites followers to attend the lecture. Book a place for the 17th November at 18:00 (GMT) at http://ow.ly/As4m50CBCfh
Last modified: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 17:04:37 GMT
Albania earthquake report published
We are pleased to announce that the report of the EEFIT mission on the November Mw 6.4 Albania earthquake is out
Last modified: Wed, 26 May 2021 18:15:16 BST
Publication & Launching Zagreb report
The Zagreb Earthquake of 22 March 2020: A remote study by the Learning from Earthquakes Team Publication
Last modified: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:17:08 BST
Earthquake reconnaissance remote mission to Zagreb
Under Covid-19 restrictions, the LFE project team, led by Dr So, carried out a remote reconnaissance mission to Zagreb, Croatia after the earthquake on 22 March 2020. Here is a link to the blogs written by their local ground survey team.
Last modified: Wed, 01 Jul 2020 15:18:17 BST
International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction
The team of the project shares the recent outputs in the observance of the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). Thanks to all who have contributed to these outputs
Last modified: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:49:53 BST
EEFIT Mission Training session preparation
Getting ready for the EEFIT missions training session
Last modified: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:13:48 GMT
Project Advisory Committee (AC) meeting
LfE project organized its firs Advisory Committee (AC) on the 30th July 2020 to evaluate the progress of the project in the deliveries on each work package
Last modified: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 11:10:51 BST
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The Twitter account @LEarthquakes is celebrating its first anniversary
Last modified: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 12:19:41 BST
Albania Mission presentation in Pavia, Italy
Albania Mission Presentation in Pavia, Italy
Last modified: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:51:34 GMT
Albania Earthquake damage observations
Mr Enes Velius presented the damage observations collected during the EEFIT mission to the Albania Earthquake to the ROSE school Research Group
Last modified: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:26:16 BST
International Women’s Day 2020
The project team wishes all women, who have participated in the EEFIT missions and training sessions, a happy women's day 2020
Last modified: Sun, 08 Mar 2020 17:13:59 GMT
Remote mission for earthquake in Croatia
The team of the project 'Learning from earthquakes' is currently working on a virtual reconnaissance mission of the damages the earthquake in Croatia
Last modified: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 14:23:11 GMT
Geologist Day 2020
The project team wishes all geologist, geophysicists and geochemists a wonderful Geologist Day !!!
Last modified: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:09:25 BST
5.4M earthquake in Zagreb 
The project team would like to express its solidarity with the inhabitants of Zagreb in Croatia, affected by the 5.4M Earthquake
Last modified: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:54:14 GMT
EEFIT Field Mission in Albania Lecture
Places are available for the EEFIT Field Mission lecture following the M6.4 earthquake in Albania in December 2019
Last modified: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:38:04 GMT
Learning from Earthquakes project meeting 
Learning from Earthquakes project meeting at UCL after EEFIT training session
Last modified: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 15:23:56 GMT
Albania Mission Presentation in London, UK 
Presentation of Field Mission observations from Albania Mision
Last modified: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:58:06 GMT
EEFIT training session at IstructE
First EEFIT Mission training session at IstructE
Last modified: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 15:13:27 GMT
Women in Science 
The Project Team would like to congratulate all women in science !!!
Last modified: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 11:37:13 GMT
EEFIT Mission Training session
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.
Last modified: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:13:24 GMT
Haiti, Puerto Rico & Chile
Learning from earthquakes team (UK) expresses its solidarity with the population and authorities from Puerto Rico
Last modified: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:31:41 GMT
EEFIT mission for the Albania earthquake finishes
EEFIT mission for the Albania earthquake came to its end
Last modified: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 02:20:51 GMT
Earthquake in Albania
The Project Team would like to express its solidarity with the victims of the Earthquake in Albania.
Last modified: Sat, 14 Dec 2019 19:27:21 GMT
EEFIT return missions 2020
Do not forget to apply !!!. Deadline: The 15th January 2020.bit.ly/39lFx1I
Last modified: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 19:31:51 GMT
SECED 2019 - EEFIT Session - EEFIT Missions over time
Dr Mathew Free presented: "A review of EEFIT mission over time 1983 to 2019"
Last modified: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:33:25 BST
EEFIT mission for the Albania earthquake
EEFIT mission for the Albania earthquake
Last modified: Tue, 03 Nov 2020 11:16:28 GMT
EEFIT mission Mission report: Gorkha, Nepal April 2015 in PreventionWeb
EEFIT mission Mission report: Gorkha, Nepal April 2015 in PreventionWeb
Last modified: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:34:59 GMT
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.
Last modified: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:38:55 GMT
SECED evening hosted at ICE 
What does true resilience mean for developing countries?
Last modified: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:02:06 GMT
Seismic performance & post-earthquake reconstruction of stone masonry houses
Seismic performance & post-earthquake reconstruction of stone masonry houses in Nepal
Last modified: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:26:08 GMT
EPICentre's Director, Prof Rossetto Interview with Turkish New Channel NTV
EPICentre's Director, Prof Rossetto Interview with Turkish New Channel NTV [Turkish Version]
Last modified: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:17:55 GMT
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"
Last modified: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:25:14 BST
Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) training 
Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) training
Last modified: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:47:49 GMT
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"
Last modified: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 10:02:43 BST
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"
Last modified: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:40:18 BST
SECED 2019 - EEFIT Session - Tsunami fieldwork by EEFIT 
Dr Joshua Macabuag presented: "Lessons learned from post-tsunami fieldwork by EEFIT"
Last modified: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:31:07 BST
SECED 2019 - EEFIT Session - Christchurch & Gorkha earthquakes
Dr Sean Wilkinson presented:"The rewards of earthquake engineering - differences between Christchurch and Gorkha earthquakes"
Last modified: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 14:51:01 BST
SECED 2019 - EEFIT Session - Lessons from earthquake fieldwork
Ms Katerine Coates presented: "Lessons from earthquake fieldwork for seismic retrofit design"
Last modified: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 14:17:56 BST
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?
Last modified: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:50:15 BST
SECED 2019 - EEFIT-TDMRC mission to Sulawesi
Prof. Dr Tiziana Rosseto presented: Mission to Central Sulawesi earthquake 2018.
Last modified: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:19:26 BST
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.
Last modified: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:26:44 BST
SECED 2019 - School reconstruction in Nepal
Ms Louis Westoby presented: challenges affecting school reconstruction in Nepal
Last modified: Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:05:36 BST
meeting INAIGEM
Dr. Nathan Forthsyte and Dr. Diana Contreras interchanged knowledge and experiences in the topics of glaciers, landslides, and earthquakes with colleagues from INAIGEM
Last modified: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:03:24 GMT
meeting UNASAM
Dr Nathan Forthsyte and Dr Diana Contreras explored opportunities of collaboration in the topics of earthquakes and landslides with UNASAM in Huaraz, Peru
Last modified: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:38:36 GMT
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.
Last modified: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:28:20 GMT
Meeting CERESIS
Dr. Nathan Forthsyte and Dr. Diana Contreras met 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.
Last modified: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:15:06 GMT
EEFIT Mobile App Testing
Valentina Putrino is with The EEDM students of the UCL testing the Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) Mobile App !!!
Last modified: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 12:44:09 BST
I-REC 2019 Conference
I-REC Conference 2019: Disrupting the status quo: Reconstruction, recovery and resisting disaster risk creation
Last modified: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 12:35:24 BST
PCEE 2019 Conference
Dr Sean Wilkinson attended the Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering (PCEE2019)
Last modified: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:35:36 BST
