Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics
Earthquake Risk and Engineering towards a Resilient World
9 - 10 July 2015, Homerton College, Cambridge, UK
Overview
SECED 2015 was a two-day conference on Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics that took place on 9-10th July 2015 at Homerton College, Cambridge.
This was the first major conference to be held in the UK on this topic since SECED hosted the 2002 European Conference on Earthquake Engineering in London.
The conference brought together experts from a broad range of disciplines, including structural engineering, nuclear engineering, seismology, geology, geotechnical engineering, urban development, social sciences, business and insurance; all focused on risk, mitigation and recovery.
Conference themes
- Geotechnical earthquake engineering
- Seismic design for nuclear facilities
- Seismic hazard and engineering seismology
- Masonry structures
- Risk and catastrophe modelling
- Vibrations, blast and civil engineering dynamics
- Dams and hydropower
- Seismic assessment and retrofit of engineered and non-engineered structures
- Social impacts and community recovery
Keynote speakers
SECED 2015 featured the following keynote speakers (affiliations correct at the time of the conference):
- Peter Ford and Tim Allmark, Office for Nuclear Regulation, UK
- Don Anderson, CH2M HILL, Seattle, USA
- Bernard Dost, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, The Netherlands
- Anne Kiremidjian, Stanford University, USA
- Rob May, Golder Associates, Australia
- Tiziana Rossetto, University College London, UK
- Andrew Whittaker, University at Buffalo, USA
- Mike Willford, Arup, The Netherlands
Retrospective Evaluation of Time-Dependent Earthquake Forecasting Models during the 2010-12 Canterbury, New Zealand, Earthquake Sequence
- Category: Seismic hazard and engineering seismology
- Author: Abigail Jimenez, Thomas Jordan, Sebastian Hainzl, Sandy Steacy, Maximillian Werner, Matthew Gerstenberger, Matteo Taroni, Maria Liukis, Jeremy Zechar, David Rhoades, Camilla Cattania, Annemarie Christophersen, Agnes Helmstetter, Warner Marzocchi
- Year: 2015
- File: WERNER, MARZOCCHI, et al.pdf
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Review
The 2010 Mw 7.1 Darfield, New Zealand, earthquake set off a complex and devastating earthquake cascade that has drastically increased expected seismic hazard over the coming years and decades in the Christchurch and surrounding Canterbury region (Gerstenberger et al. 2014). The sequence provides a wealth of new scientific data to study earthquake clustering and to evaluate the predictive skills of time-dependent forecasting models. To this end, the Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability (CSEP) is conducting a retrospective evaluation of fifteen short-term statistical, physics-based and hybrid models that were developed by groups in New Zealand, Europe and the US. Our results may eventually contribute to operational earthquake forecasting systems that seek to disseminate credible information about time-dependent seismic hazards and risks to the public.