Our objective is to promote international cooperation among scientists, engineers and other professionals in the broad field of earthquake engineering through interchange of knowledge, ideas, results of research and practical experience.
Edited by:
Masayoshi Nakashima, Anil K. Chopra, Michael Fardis,
and Michael C. Constantinou
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A worldwide compilation of earthquakes and their magnitudes, losses, and references for information from ancient times to the near present.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/Up to the minute reports of worldwide earthquakes, with maps, estimates of affected local area, seismological information, and other data. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/Reconnaissance reports from recent earthquakes.
http://www.eeri.orgIAEE is delighted to announce that Milano, Italy, is the venue of Eighteenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (18WCEE). The IAEE's National Delegates voted and has chosen Italy (Milano) in November 2020.
Please see the link below : A Message from IAEE President, A Message from Italy
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- IAEE Central Office
We are delighted to announce that IAEE has chosen Italy (Milano) as the venue of the Eighteenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (18WCEE). Considering the current pandemic situation, IAEE implemented online voting to select the 18WCEE venue.
Please see the link below for detailsIAEE, in coordination with 17WCEE, will initiate a new program titled the Masters’ Series. Masters, legendary figures in the world of earthquake engineering, will be invited to contribute to three events. One of the 3 events, "Greet the Masters" is now open for application.
"Greet the Masters" is a series of invitation-based, small-group receptions targeting young researchers to greet a Master in person. A luncheon or tea-time reception will be held to hear from the Master about his/her visions and tips in research and professional career development through frank and friendly exchange. The lunch and tea-time receptions are free of charge.
Please see the link below for details
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- IAEE Central Office
IAEE has launched a new initiative named “Masters Program”. Motivation for the initiative is for IAEE to serve as “Connection” among the past, present, and future of earthquake engineering and to secure the transfer of knowledge across generations.
In “Masters Program”, the following three events: “Read the Masters”, “Meet the Masters”, and “Greet the Masters” are organized. The concept is to connect legendary figures in the world of earthquake engineering with contemporaries. All three events are to be organized in tune with World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE), and we are pleased to announce that the inaugurating events will be programed into 17WCEE to be held in Sendai, Japan, during September 13 and 18, 2020. (wcee website).
Please see the link below for details of “Masters Program”
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- IAEE Central Office
- IAEE Central Office
Indonesian Earthquake Engineering Association (IEEA), Andalas University, and Bandung Institute of Technology will be organizing the 4th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Mitigation on 26-27 September, 2019 in Padang, Indonesia.
Please see the conference website for further information.
http://conference.ft.unand.ac.id/index.php/iceedm/2019
- IAEE Central Office
- IAEE central office and Dr. Carlos Zavala
The Earthquake Engineering Association of Turkey (EEAT) will be organizing the 5th International Earthquake Engineering and Seismology Congress and Exhibition ( http://www.5icees.com) on October 8-11, 2019 at Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey.
- IAEE Central Office
The Universidad Nacional de Cuyo in Argentina and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) have published a Spanish translation of the oral history of the late Professor Vitelmo Bertero.
The translated oral history is available from the link below:
- IAEE Central Office
Colleagues, Affiliate Members and Friends of IAEE,
On June 18, 2018, I assumed the position of the fifteenth President of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE). I feel much honored to have been elected to this prestigious position, and shall work to my best to promote the sustainable development of IAEE. The utmost mission of IAEE is to provide an international forum in which people with various kinds of expertise convene and discuss issues in the mitigation of earthquake-related disasters. Traditionally, IAEE activities have been energized by engineering practitioners and researchers (civil, structural, mechanical, and geotechnical) and earth scientists (geologists, geophysicists, seismologists). In recent years, the involvement of architects, urban planners, public officials, and social scientists have increased, creating a more multidisciplinary IAEE.
IAEE was founded in 1963. Since that time, IAEE has continued to grow, and as of today, a total of 59 countries and regions are registered in IAEE. Once every four years, IAEE organizes the World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE) at various cities around the world. The last one (the Sixteenth WCEE, called 16WCEE) was held at Santiago, Chile, on January 2017, where 3,000 people registered for the conference. 15WCEE, which was organized four year before 16WCEE, was held at Lisbon, Portugal, on September 2012, where 2,300 people registered. For nearly 60 years, WCEE has been one of the largest technical/professional gatherings and continues to serve as "Connection" among the stakeholders in relevant disciplines as well as people with diverse backgrounds in culture, religion, and social structure.
Our globe is experiencing an explosive increase in population combined with rapid development and urbanization due to growing economic activities. We now face the ultimate question of how to ensure the sustainable development of the human sphere, in which the threat of earthquake disasters is one of the most critical problems to resolve on a global scale. We shall not overlook the reality that the densification of our cities and towns, which occurs as a result of such development and urbanization, makes our society more and more vulnerable against earthquake disasters. To overcome this vulnerability, we must invent novel solutions, and to this end, expend a more interdisciplinary effort, in which new disciplines are forged through collective, integral efforts among diverse genres. It is also notable that we shall further a transdisciplinary attitude, in which linkage with the real world is appreciated, so that solutions reach the society in a most effective and timely manner. IAEE wishes to serve as "Connection" among people and genres to make our efforts more interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary.
Human factors are naturally influential in the understanding and promotion of efforts that seek for the mitigation of earthquake-related disasters. Learning from the past and reflecting it to the present and future are important. IAEE regards it as its duty to ensure "Connection" among the past, present, and future and to secure the transfer of knowledge across generations. IAEE is currently preparing for a new initiative that can assist such efforts, and will present it soon in detail.
On behalf of the family of national organizations that comprise IAEE, I greet you with respect and look forward to working with you.
- Masayoshi Nakashima, President
- IAEE central office
- IAEE central office
- IAEE central office and Polat Gülkan
- IAEE Central Office
The electric copies of the 3345 papers presented in the 15th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Lisbon, Portugal, 2012 are posted online (http://www.nicee.org/wcee/). The 15th WCEE provided a unique opportunity to establish synergies between participants from different engineering areas and from such varied fields as earth sciences, economics and social sciences, and contributed to a global effort of the scientific and technical community towards a safer world in what regards the earthquake risk.
Special thanks go to a digital archiving project of the WCEE proceedings.
A fellowship fund has been established in the name of Joseph Penzien to fund and support graduate engineering students enrolled in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Preference will be given to students who have demonstrated financial need and have chosen the field of structural engineering and structural mechanics. The goal is to raise $500,000 to qualify for a named graduate fellowship. [more]