High Attendance for Blume Center Latin-American Seminar on Performance Based Earthquake Engineering

The John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center organized a Latin-American Seminar on Performance Based Earthquake Engineering in which former and current Latin-American PhD students presented their research in their first language on the Zoom platform on Tuesday August 3rd, 2020. Speakers included former PhD students Jorge Ruiz-García, Cristian Cruz, Héctor Dávalos, Luis Ceferino and Pablo Heresi, as well as current PhD students Andrés Acosta-Vera, Armando Messina and Francisco Galvis. A short introduction and welcoming remarks were given by Professor Eduardo Miranda. More than 1,700 different viewers from 16 different countries attended the event and nearly 90% of them watched all presentations.