StEER Event Briefing for June 17 Sichuan Earthquake, and Recent Tornado Reports

June 24, 2019

The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) Network has issued an Event Briefing for the June 17, M6.0 earthquake in Sichuan, China.  Event Briefings  are typically released within 48 hours of an event for which StEER will not deploy virtual or field assessment teams, but still warrants some commentary. This briefing summarizes the event characteristics and key lessons learned.

  • Lu, X., Gunay, S., Kijewski-Correa, T., Robertson, I., Mosalam, K., Prevatt, D., Roueche, D. (2019-06-22) “StEER - 17 June, 2019 Yibin City, Sichuan, China Earthquake: Event Briefing.” DesignSafe-CI. https://doi.org/10.17603/ds2-2117-1565.

The following Early Access Reconnaissance Reports have been issued for recent tornadoes in Kansas and Missouri:

  • Sutley, E., Lequesne, R., Li, J., Kirkham, W., Chen, Z., Al-Sabawy, A., Daniel, L., Enderami, S., Kim, J., Mudaliar, T., Taher, S., Sharma, P., Roueche, D., (2019-06-12) “StEER - 28 MAY 2019 LINWOOD, KS EF4 TORNADO: FIELD ASSESSMENT STRUCTURAL TEAM (FAST) EARLY ACCESS RECONNAISSANCE REPORT (EARR).” DesignSafe-CI.  https://aub.ie/Steer_prj2396
  • Yan, G., Zhang, X., Elgawady, M., Han, D., Li, T., Li, Z., Zhao, Y., Honerkamp, R., Zhao, J., Ramadan, A., Esswein, E., Barner, T., Roueche, D., (2019-06-11) “StEER - 22 May 2019 JEFFERSON CITY, MO TORNADO: FIELD ASSESSMENT STRUCTURAL TEAM 1 (FAST-1) EARLY ACCESS RECONNAISSANCE REPORT (EARR).” DesignSafe-CI. https://aub.ie/steer_prj2406

These and all other StEER products are also available on the StEER website: https://www.steer.network/products