Past Home Page Stories: 2006
A City in Ruins: The Earthquake & Fires of 1906
This exhibit, curated by the staff of MCEER’s Information Service, commemorated
the centennial of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires that
destroyed the West Coast's most populous city and leading economic and cultural
center. The exhibit was on display at Lockwood Library through the summer. Bulletin article
6.3M Earthquake in Indonesia
A
6.3M earthquake occurred on Java, Indonesia on May 26, 2006. MCEER's EarthQuake
Information NETwork (EQNET) website has links to preliminary reports, news
releases, relief agencies and photo galleries for the Java quake and other
significant disaster events. Preliminary reports (USGS) suggest that the event
killed at least 4,500 people, injured 1,800 and damaged many buildings in the
Bantul-Yogyakarta area.
MCEER Response to Hurricane Katrina
Preliminary reports by MCEER investigators on buildings and bridges; the use of satellite imaging technology to survey wide-spread damage; emergency response decision-making at hospitals, transportation agencies and utilities; and Katrina’s impacts
on water delivery, wastewater management, and community health and hygiene
are available from the MCEER website. In all, the center dispatched three sets
of teams between September 6 and October 22. Full length reports are in preparation. Preliminary
Reports are available, as is more
about the November 2 Seminar.
MCEER Hurricane Katrina Investigations Earn Cover Story
in Structural Engineer Magazine
The February 2006 issue of Structural Engineer magazine features
a cover story written by Gilberto Mosqueda (University at Buffalo) and Keith
Porter (California Institute of Technology), two members of MCEER’s Post-Hurricane
Katrina Reconnaissance Team. In the article entitled “Preliminary
Conclusions: Assessing damage to engineering buildings in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina,” (external link) Mosqueda and Porter present preliminary findings from their
September and October 2005 field mission to Mississippi and New Orleans, where
they investigated damage to engineered buildings in the wake of the storm.
2006 Seminar Series Events
- Peter K. Ostrowski, Temporary Structures during Construction, September 28, 2006
- Dr. Hiroshi Isoda, State of the Art of Shaking Table Tests of Wood Buildings in Japan, August 25, 2006
- Dr. Bryan Folz, Seismic Analysis of Woodframe Structures, June 9, 2006
- Dr. Satish Nagarajaiah, Smart Structures Based on Variable Stiffness and Damping Systems, April, 28, 2006
