Hurricane Helene: NSF-Funded Natural Hazards Experts Ready for Comment

Improved Predictions of Earthquake Damage

Ground motion intensity measures for earthquake liquefaction assessment win 2024 DesignSafe Dataset Award — No one knows exactly when or where an earthquake will strike. But computer simulations are helping scientists and engineers improve predictions for liquefaction — a sometimes deadly earthquake effect where the soil loses its stiffness, thus toppling buildings and more.


 

The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) is a distributed national facility that enables research discoveries that will protect human life, reduce damage, and minimize economic losses during natural hazard events.

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Graphic showing different levels of the NHERI organization: NHERI, NCO, and Experimentation. Experimentation includes Physical, Digital, and Social Impact & Field Reconnaissance

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The Learning Center offers training webinars from all NHERI components, as well as resources for students, post-docs, and early career researchers.

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