Videos Now Posted: Briefing on Christchurch New Zealand Earthquake of Feb 22, 2011

Briefing on Christchurch New Zealand Earthquake

A briefing on the Christchurch, New Zealand, earthquake of February 22, 2011, was jointly organized by EERI’s Learning from Earthquakes Program and the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), and co-sponsored by GEER. This briefing was attended by over 50 attendees at the UC Berkeley venue, and web-broadcasted to listeners at nearly 200 locations across the US and around the world.

Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Time: 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Location: Auditorium in Room 310, Sutardja Dai Hall (CITRIS Building), UC Berkeley. Directions.

Speakers included:

– Stephen Mahin of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (Welcome)

– Ronald Mayes of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger: Introductions & Darfield Earthquake

– Ken Elwood (EERI Reconnaissance Team co-leader) of the University of British Columbia: Earthquake experience, spectral demands, critical building project

– Russell Berkowitz of Forell/Elsesser: Structural performance observations

– Fred Turner of the California Seismic Safety Commission: Performance of unreinforced masonry buildings & retrofitted structures

– Donald Wells (GEER) of AMEC Geomatrix: Geotechnical observations & engineering geology

– Misko Cubrinovski of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand discussing via video conference: Liquefaction

– Anne Wein of the U.S. Geological Survey: Social impacts

– Mary Comerio (EERI Reconnaissance Team co-leader) of the University of California, Berkeley: University, housing, policy, and recovery issues

– Q&A Session

This seminar was hosted by:

• Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER)
• Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
• Geo-Engineering Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER)

For more information about the Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand, visit the EERI Clearinghouse for the earthquake.