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Learning from the 3rd April 2024 Mw7.4 Hualien Earthquake, Taiwan – Christchurch
29 August 2024 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
5.30pm Networking | 6.00pm Presentations
Beca, ANZ Centre, Level 2, 267 High Street, Christchurch 8011
The New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering invites you to join us in Christchurch on Thursday, 29 August to learn from the impact of the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Hualien, Taiwan on 3 April 2024.
Abstract
A NZSEE ‘Learning from Earthquakes’ team travelled to Taiwan during May and June 2024, to learn about the Mw7.4 Hualien Earthquake that struck on 3 April 2024. That was the largest and most impacting earthquake event in Taiwan since the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake.
In this seminar the team will share their observations of the changes and developments in Taiwan since 1999 and the impacts of this event, including seismic requirements and building performance, rapid building assessments, early warning systems for earthquakes and landslides, applications of GIS, approaches to reducing geohazard impact and enhancing infrastructure resilience, and emergency management policy and practices.
Presenters:
Bo-Yao Lee
Bo-Yao has over 25 years of experience in policy development and implementation, in the areas of property related engineering and design, emergency management, insurance and risk management. She has held senior technical advisory roles for several government property portfolios and currently works for the Ministry of Justice.
Doug Mason
Doug is an engineering geologist in WSP’s geotechnical risk and resilience team in Wellington, with 20 years’ professional experience. His principal areas of interest are the investigation and assessment of natural hazards and risks, assessing the seismic resilience of infrastructure, and interpretation of natural hazard effects for land use and infrastructure planning
Joe Byrne
Joe is a Technical Director and Shareholder at Lewis Bradford where he is involved with design, assessment, strengthening, and peer review of building structures. Joe’s area of expertise is multi-storey reinforced concrete and structural steel buildings, with particular focus in the accommodation, public, and carparking sectors. Joe is CPEng with over 12 years of experience in Christchurch and is also an engineering advisor to Urban Search and Rescue.
Julian Rincon
Julian Rincon is a structural engineer and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Canterbury. He has participated in earthquake reconnaissance missions in Turkey and Taiwan. Julián’s research interests include the assessment and strengthening of structures, large-scale experimental testing, and structural health monitoring.
Ke Jiang
Ke Jiang is a now a lecturer in structural engineering at University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her principal research interests lie in the areas of high-performance steel/aluminium structures (connections and members), sustainable structures with green and recycled materials, and structural resilience of steel structures after hazards.
Richard Mowll
Richard Mowll is a civil engineer of over 30 years’ experience in engineering contracting (8 years), humanitarian assistance (5 years) and emergency management (15 years). He has been Project Manager of the Wellington Lifelines Group, focussed on risk-reduction of infrastructure to hazards, and the Lifeline Utilities Co-ordinator for the Wellington region, focussed on planning, response and recovery to infrastructure outages, since 2010.
