2012 National Earthquake Conference

Registration has started for the 2012 Earthquake Conference.  Details below.  EERI has their registration site up.   Early Registration ends January 15th.

 

2012 National Earthquake Conference/2012 EERI Annual Meeting 


As the last of a series of bicentennial events marking the 200th anniversary of the historic series of strong earthquakes that struck the New Madrid seismic zone in late 1811 and early 1812, the 2012 EERI Annual Meeting will be held April 10-14 at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Because of the significance of the anniversary, the Annual Meeting will be held in conjunction with the National Earthquake Conference (NEC) that is organized every four years by the FEMA consortia. The consortia organizations are the Western States Seismic Policy Council (WSSPC), the Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium (CUSEC), the Northeast States Emergency Consortium (NESEC), and the Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup (CREW). Several members of the EERI New Madrid Regional Chapter will serve on the local organizing committee.

People who attended the NEC 2008 conference were from the following disciplines: government, emergency management/response, geosciences, risk management, education/research, strategic planning, engineering, policymaking, private for-profit, insurance, and private not for-profit. The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute is a national, nonprofit, technical society of engineers, geoscientists, architects, planners, public officials, and social scientists. EERI members include researchers, practicing professionals, educators, government officials, and building code regulators.

We anticipate more than 600 attendees for this joint conference