EERI - UNR Student Chapter

06/04/2020

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University geoscience teams monitoring, finding, mapping damage and surface ruptures

06/04/2020

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06/04/2020

Earthquake: 5.5 quake strikes near Ridgecrest and shakes Southern California

A late aftershock to last summer's Ridgecrest earthquakes has shaken up Southern California

05/19/2020

Amazing Sky Vision video of earthquake damage and repairs done on U.S. 95 in central Nevada

Check out this amazing Sky Vision video of damage to U. S. 95 from Friday morning's magnitude 6. 5 earthquake in remote western Nevada. According to the U. S. Geological Survey, the temblor was reported at 4:03 a. m. about 35 miles outside Tonopah, just east of the Sierra Nevada range. The Esmeralda...

05/15/2020

Large historical earthquakes and associates surface ruptures (red lines) in the area of the M6.5 Tonopah event (red star). Orange lines show Quaternary faults with a latest Pleistocene or younger age of most recent movement; all other Quaternary faults shown in black.

05/15/2020

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck near Tonopah, Nevada, near the California-Nevada border and about 120 miles southeast of Carson City, early this morning on May 15, 2020, at 4:03 am local time (11:03:27 UTC).

Seismic instruments indicate the earthquake originated at a depth of 1.7 miles (2.8 km). The quake occurred as the result of strike slip faulting in the shallow crust of the North America plate.The earthquake struck about 34.7 miles (56 km) west of Tonopah, Nevada, and about 120 miles south east of....

05/15/2020

Foundation Professor M. “Saiid” Saiidi to retire

After 41 years of a distinguished career in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Saiidi will retire at the end of this semester

10/24/2019

New capabilities for the seismic analysis of nuclear facilities funded by the DOE

09/25/2019

"With the awarding of a GAANN grant to the CEE deparment, the University of Nevada, Reno, joins the ranks of our nation's most accomplished research universities including Duke University, Penn State University and the University of California, Davis," said David Zeh, Dean of the Graduate School.

Provided by the Department of Education, the department of civil and environmental engineering will use the grant for Ph.D. students

09/16/2019

Call for papers / organized sessions: 17th WORLD CONFERENCE ON EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

09/05/2019

FREE WEBINAR: Don't miss this great learning opportunity — join us for an informative session 9/12 on earthquake resilience and earthquake engineering with David Bonowitz, coordinated by EERI Younger Members Committee.

08/29/2019

Apply now for the EERI Annual Undergraduate Student Paper Competition. Application deadline Oct. 15.

Are you an undergraduate student or know of one? Apply now for the EERI Annual Undergraduate Student Paper Competition. Share your knowledge and get recognized in the field! Application deadline Oct. 15. Learn more + apply: bit.ly/EERI-Undergrad-Paper