NOVEMBER 10, 2011 On 10 November 2011, Charles Scawthorn presented the final report on Water Supply In Regards to Fire Following Earthquakes to the California Seismic Safety Commission. The report summarizes research Scawthorn conducted at the University of California at Berkeley’s Pacific
OCTOBER 13, 2011 SPA’s Keith Porter spoke about the Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety’s Soft-Story Program at the Structural Engineers Association of Southern California Buildings At Risk Earthquake Loss Reduction Summit, at USC in Los Angeles, on 13 October
SEPTEMBER 25-27, 2011 SPA’s Keith Porter spoke in a plenary session of the 5th annual NICC in Vancouver, 25-27 September 2011. Dr. Porter spoke on the subject of ShakeOut, Tohoku, and their Implications for Canada. He offered lessons on how
SEPTEMBER 7-9, 2011 SPA’s Charles Scawthorn and Keith Porter attended this Washington, DC event on 7-9 September 2011, which brought together leaders from the research, policy, and re/insurance communities with expertise in various aspects of extreme events. By convening the
MARCH 11, 2011 SPA’s Charles Scawthorn and Keith Porter have prepared a report on the effects of the 11 March 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. The report summarizes the seismotectonics, ground-shaking and tsunami runup, and addresses in detail the impacts of the earthquake on
JUNE 19-22, 2011 SPA’s Keith Porter spoke on the Tohoku Earthquake and its implications for the United States. This seminar, held in Toronto Canada on 19-22 June 2011, focused on new global opportunities for the insurance industry. Porter spoke in
SPA’s Keith Porter led a group of guest editors for this issue of earthquake engineering’s leading scholarly and professional journal, which included SPA’s Scawthorn. Both Porter and Scawthorn contributed to the unusually large issue (20 manuscripts), which highlights scientific and
JUNE 2011 SPA’s Charles Scawthorn gave a keynote talk on Lessons to be Learnt from the Recent Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, at the 9th Conference on Catastrophe Insurance in Asia. The conference was held 8-9 June at The Westin Chaoyang in Beijing,
SPA’s Charles Scawthorn spoke on the topic of Critical Infrastructure at the World Reconstruction Conference, held in Geneva as part of the UN ISDR’s 2011 Global Platform for Disaster Reduction. His remarks can be viewed here.
SPA’s Charles Scawthorn has been invited to chair the HAZUS Open Source Committee, for the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS). The Committee will advise NIBS and FEMA on ways in which HAZUS source code can be opened to selected users,