Newsletter – October 2024

Volume 8, Issue 4

From the Editor’s Desk

by Tuna Onur.

The next World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (2028) will be hosted in Montréal! Congratulations to the CAEES team who successfully prepared for and presented the CAEES’s bid in Milan!

Following the release of the CAEES earthquake reconnaissance team’s report regarding the February 2023 earthquakes in Turkey, the team will present its findings in a CAEES Webinar this month. You can find the details in the “Upcoming Events” section of the Newsletter and the CAEES website.

In Code Corner, we take a look at CSA S6.1’s guidance for abutment-backfill interaction in the earthquake-resisting system of a bridge structure.

And our feature article for this issue covers a project in the Metro Vancouver area that is generating region-specific seismic hazard maps that capture local earthquake site effects, including regional ground motion amplification hazard, and liquefaction and landslide hazard potentials.

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