MEDIA ADVISORY
ATTENTION:
Assignment desks and science reporters
WHAT
A
seminar examining China's Wenchuan Earthquake, the magnitude 7.9
earthquake that killed nearly 70,000 people and left 4.8 million more
homeless when it struck the Sichuan Province on May 12.
An
official with China's Earthquake Administration will present
never-before-seen geological data and results from an extensive
post-event survey of the damage. U.S. experts who have visited the
affected region as members of official reconnaissance teams also will
address how the findings and lessons from the Wenchuan Earthquake can
be applied to future earthquake preparedness in the United States.
Additionally, San Francisco officials will discuss the city's new China
Earthquake Technical Partnership, a joint public-private effort to
assemble and share seismic engineering, design and recovery expertise
with China's damaged cities.
The event is being organized by the
Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, based at the University
of California, Berkeley, in partnership with the city of San Francisco,
PG&E, Structural Engineers Association of Northern California and
the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute; and various business and
industry partners.
WHEN
4-6:30 p.m., Monday, Aug. 18
WHERE
PG&E
Auditorium, 77 Beale St., San Francisco. The auditorium entrance is on
the left side of the waterfall at the main building entrance.
WHO
Speakers and panelists will include:
- Zifa Wang, director at the Institute of Engineering Mechanics in the China Earthquake Administration
- Khalid Mosalam, UC Berkeley professor of civil engineering
- Raymond Lui, San Francisco's deputy director and manager of plan review services in the Department of Building Inspection
- Gretchen Kalonji, director of international strategy development at the UC Office of the President
- Joseph Sun of the PG&E Geosciences Department
- and Edmund Lee, San Francisco city administrator
A full list of participants and additional information about the seminar is available online at the PEER Center's homepage.
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