The Great Southern California ShakeOut on Nov. 13 is being billed as the largest earthquake preparedness exercise in U.S. history. UCLA has several faculty members with earthquake-related expertise.

 

David Jackson, professor of Earth and space sciences, is a geophysicist who conducts statistical analyses aimed at determining the probability of earthquakes, especially in Southern California. [Full bio]

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Stuart Wolpert | 310-206-0511 | swolpert@support.ucla.edu

 

Jonathan Stewart, professor and vice chair of the UCLA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is an earthquake engineering expert with extensive experience documenting the effects of major quakes in California, Turkey, Taiwan, India and Greece. [Full bio]

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Wileen Wong Kromhout | 206-0540 | wwkromhout@support.ucla.edu

 

John Wallace, professor of civil and environmental engineering, is an expert in earthquake engineering whose research focuses on the performance and behavior of reinforced concrete structures. [Full bio]

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Wileen Wong Kromhout | 206-0540 | wwkromhout@support.ucla.edu

 

Mladen Vucetic, professor of civil and environmental engineering, teaches and conducts research in the field of geotechnical engineering, with an emphasis on the cyclic and dynamic behavior of clays, silts and sands. [Full bio]

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Wileen Wong Kromhout | 206-0540 | wwkromhout@support.ucla.edu

 

Scott Brandenberg, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, specializes in geotechnical earthquake engineering. He is part of a team developing guidelines that will be used by the California Department of Transportation to evaluate existing bridges for retrofit and to design bridges in liquefied and laterally spreading ground. [Full bio]

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Wileen Wong Kromhout | 206-0540 | wwkromhout@support.ucla.edu

 

Jian Zhang, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, specializes in earthquake engineering and structural dynamics and mechanics. [Full bio]

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Wileen Wong Kromhout | 206-0540 | wwkromhout@support.ucla.edu

 

Ertugrul Taciroglu, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is an authority on earthquake engineering and structural mechanics. [Full bio]

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Wileen Wong Kromhout | 206-0540 | wwkromhout@support.ucla.edu