EEFIT Mission Report: Maule, Chile

In November 2012 EEFIT launched its first ever return mission to an earthquake affected site. This paper presents an overview of the post-disaster emergency phase and transition to reconstruction in the L'Aquila area after the earthquake.

Following the 2020 earthquakes in Elazig and Izmir, Turkey, this EEFIT Resrech Grant 2022 winning project aims to construct comprehensive empirical fragility functions for reinforced concrete moment-resisting frame type structures and unreinforced masonry structures, from two damage datasets by employing statistical methods.

This EEFIT Field Mission report, and extended summary in Turkish, details the effects of the Mw 7.8 and Mw 7.5 earthquakes which struck southeastern Turkiye and northern Syria on 6 February 2023.

Lecture detailing the observations from the 2022 EEFIT recovery missions to Indonesia and Thailand.

Lecture detailing the EEFIT hybrid mission to the Mw 7.8 earthquake on 6 February 2023 in Kahramanmaras: Turkey earthquake sequence. Provides information regarding siesmotectonics, geotechnical observations, structural analysis, remote sensing, infrastructure, relief response recovery, key messages and next destination.

This EEFIT Field Mission report details the effects of the Mw6.9 earthquake which struck the Aegean coasts of Greece and Turkey on 30 October 2020.

This EEFIT Field Mission report details the effects of the Mw6.4 earthquake which struck Albania on 26 November 2019.

Details the effects of the 7.5 Mw earthquake which struck Sulawesi Island on 28 September 2018.

This report is an outcome of the analysis of data and information related to the damage and post-earthquake reconstruction of residential buildings, collected during the field survey by the authors, in light of 2015 Nepal earthquake sequence.

This lecture provides an overview of the global challenges to resillient housing and proven solutions for risk reduction.

A report from a project funded by a 2018 EEFIT Research Grant.

A review of tools, frameworks and practices for measuring recovery in the built environment following disaster.

This blog, from Yasemin D. Aktas (EEFIT Management Committee Chair), discusses the importance of publishing mission journals which can provide a real-time account of the post-disaster recovery process.

This joint virtual reconniassance report into the magntiude 6.0 31 August 2025 eastern Afghanistan earthquake details the earthquakes impact and aftermath.

This project explored how 3D reality-capture technologies can be used to assess the construction quality and earthquake damage of historic masonry buildings.