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PEER has published Report No. 2022/06: "Parallel Level-Set DEM (LS-DEM) Development and Application to the Study of Deformation and Flow of Granular Media." It was authored by Peng Tan and Nicholas Sitar, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley.

Earthquake Spectra invites paper submissions for a special collection presenting recent developments at the nexus of earth science, engineering, and computational science.

The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has issued a Preliminary Virtual Reconnaissance Report (PVRR) for the Mw 6.1 Earthquake that occured in Duzce, Turkey, on November 23, 2022.

The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has issued a Preliminary Virtual Reconnaissance Report (PVRR) for the Mw 5.6 Earthquake that occured in West Java, Indonesia, on November 21, 2022.

PEER has published Report No. 2022/05: "Hyperbolic Hydro-mechanical Model for Seismic Compression Prediction of Unsaturated Soils in the Funicular Regime." It was authored by Dellena Kinikles and John S. McCartney, University of California San Diego.

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OpenSRA is a new open-source seismic risk assessment software tool for gas utility regulators and owners that will enable them to assess challenges posed by the risk from earthquake-induced hazards.

The California Energy Commission has published “Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Natural Gas Storage and Pipeline Systems, Task B Final Report – Enhanced Liquefaction and Ground Deformation Report.” It was written by Chris Bain, UC Berkeley; Daniel Hutabarat, UC Berkeley; Jonathan D. Bray, UC Berkeley, Norman Abrahamson, UC Berkeley; Thomas D.

On September 20th, the PEER Student Committee (PSC) hosted its very first PEER Pitches contest at the 2022 PEER Researchers’ workshop.

OpenSRA

OpenSRA is a new open-source seismic risk assessment software tool for gas utility regulators and owners that will enable them to strategically assess challenges posed by the risk from earthquakes and other geological hazards.

The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has issued an Event Briefing for the Mw 7.0 Earthquake that occurred on July 27, 2022, in the northern Philippines.

Thank you for joining the PEER Student Committee for our 2021-2022 "Meet the PEER Students'' Series. We conclude this year’s series with a self-spotlight of our PEER Student Committee members. Watch the video and read the written interview.

PEER has published Report No. 2022/04: "The PEER International Pacific Rim Forum 2021: Regional-Scale Simulations of Earthquake Ground Motions and Infrastructure Response for Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering." It was authored by David McCallen, University of Nevada Reno, Floriana Petrone, University of Nevada Reno, Elnaz Esmaeilzadeh Seylabi, University of Nevada Reno, Arben Pitarka, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Norman Abrahamson, UC Berkeley, and Sherif Elfass, University of Nevada Reno.

PEER celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the UC Berkeley shaking table on June 24, 2022, at the Earthquake Simulator Laboratory facility at Richmond Field Station. Over 80 researchers, practitioners, former and current students attended the event to commemorate the impact of the table on the field of earthquake engineering.

The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has issued an Event Briefing for the Mw 6.0 Earthquake that occurred on July 2, 2022 in Iran.