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LUNCH TOPIC DESCRIPTION

The Rose Canyon Fault Zone investigations indicate a geologic record of many major local earthquakes occurring over the last 10,000 years. We cannot predict when the next one will occur, but we can be certain that it will. Is San Diego ready?

This presentation will outline the fault rupture, liquefaction, and ground shaking hazards expected by the EERI Scenario team to accompany this scenario earthquake and will explore the potential impacts on the buildings and infrastructure systems and some of the consequences for the San Diego community and economy.

How will the older buildings fare? Newer buildings? The critical lifeline utilities and transportation infrastructure systems? How will airport and the port facilities fare? What will be the impacts on government facilities and operations, on emergency services and response capacities? What will be the impacts on the tourism industry, waterfront activities, downtown business operations? On the border crossings and bi-national trade?

These questions will be investigated and potential earthquake consequences considered. Some key mitigation measures and strategies will be suggested that can be pursued beforehand to better prepare San Diego for the inevitable future RCFZ earthquake and to help transform San Diego into a more resilient city.

SPEAKER

Tony Court, S.E., SEAOC Fellow, is President of A. B. Court & Associates in San Diego, specializing in historic building seismic retrofit and performance based seismic engineering. He is past-President of SEAOSD and past-Chair of the SEAOC and SEAOSD Existing Buildings Committees, Sustainable Design Committees, and Performance Based Seismic Engineering Subcommittees. He represents SEAOSD on the Board of Directors for the Applied Technology Council and has served on many past ATC projects. He represented SEAOC and the US in international post-earthquake investigations in L'Aquila, Italy and Christchurch, New Zealand. He currently co-Chairs Working Group 2 Buildings & Infrastructure for the San Diego-Tijuana Earthquake Scenario Project.

BIG NEWS!!!!!!

The SDSU ASCE Geotechnical Engineering team has been working for and has now earned a spot to attend and compete in the Geo-institute Geo-wall 2020 Competition as one of the top twenty ranked institutions in the nation! At this conference four SDSU ASCE student members will be constructing and testing a retaining wall that our team both designed and constructed. The competition we are competing in will be held at the Geo-Congress 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but we need YOUR help! The team will be presenting at the February ASCE/EERI meeting in hopes of receiving sponsorship in order to fund our competition fees.

For more information please contact:

Nikolette Mazzuola, EIT

President, American Society of Civil Engineers, San Diego State University

Mobile: (209) 623-3485 asce.sdsu.president@gmail.com