FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NSF NHERI Experts Available to Discuss Venezuela Earthquake Impacts
West Lafayette, IN, June 25, 2026 — Earthquake engineering researchers from the U.S. National Science Foundation-supported Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) network are available to discuss issues related to infrastructure and environmental damage from the June 24, 2026, earthquakes that struck Venezuela.
As well as damage to buildings and and civil infrastructure, earthquakes frequently trigger cascading events such as landslides and tsunamis.
NHERI experts are versed on the following topics:
- Computational earthquake simulation and modeling
- Physical and cyber-physical earthquake simulation, earthquake-resilient design and materials, structural monitoring, earthquake-generated tsunamis
- Field research, earthquake-prone soils, earthquake damage, data collection, data analysis, data curation, high-performance computing
- Equipment, instrumentation for post-earthquake data collection
- NSF-funded NHERI Extreme Event Reconnaissance teams
ACCESS the NHERI earthquake engineering experts list:
https://www.designsafe-ci.org/news/media/earthquake-engineering-experts-list/
Media Contacts
Marti LaChance
Communication Manager
lachance [at] purdue.edu
About the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure, NHERI
Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, NHERI is a national network of university-centered experimental facilities and resources. NHERI facilities are dedicated to reducing damage and loss-of-life due to natural hazards such as earthquakes, landslides, windstorms, wildfires, tsunamis and storm surge. A vital resource, NHERI provides researchers in the natural hazards engineering and social science communities with state-of-the-art laboratories, data, cyberinfrastructure, equipment, and training needed to meet the research challenges of the 21st century. NHERI is supported by multiple grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Learn more.