Annual ASCE / SFGI Dinner
Thursday, March 15, 2018 - 06:00 PM
Join us for our annual dinner event with SFGI featuring a presentation about the 2016 Mw 7.0 Kumamoto, Japan earthquake.
Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Findings from the 2016 Mw 7.0 Kumamoto, Japan Earthquake
The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake occurred April 16, 2016 beneath Kumamoto City in Japan. As a part of the mission of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association conducted a reconnaissance of the region shortly after the earthquake. The earthquake resulted in substantial damage in the region due to surface fault rupture, landslides, and liquefaction. Important case histories identified by GEER include: (1) surface fault rupture through the Oh-Kirihata Dam; (2) widespread landsliding with large runouts and significant fatalities; (3) a unique 10-km long subsidence feature; (4) surface fault rupture with pre- and post-LIDAR; (5) a lack of liquefaction in many areas it had been expected based on existing borings; and (6) a possible zero-displacement lateral spread.
Speaker(s)
Speaker: Nicolas K. Oettle, Ph.D., P.E.
In his present role, Dr. Oettle serves as a senior engineer at AECOM. He is currently the lead geotechnical engineer for a new US Missile Defense Base in Poland and the Long Range Discrimination Radar Project in Alaska. He is a member of the ASCE technical committee on Computational Geotechnics and was a member of the GEER/NSF reconnaissance team that documented the geotechnical damage caused by the 2016 Kumamoto, Japan Earthquake. Dr. Oettle is a member of the seismic subcommittee developing ASCE 7-22. He was nominated by ASCE for the 2016 ISSMGE Outstanding Young Geotechnical Engineer Award. Dr. Oettle is a 2007 and 2008 graduate of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where he graduated with honors and was the recipient of the Distinguished Graduate Student Award. In 2010, he started working with Prof. Jonathan Bray at UC Berkeley on developing numerical modeling techniques for surface fault rupture interaction with soil and structures, for which he received a Ph.D. in geotechnical engineering.
Location
Spin-A-Yarn Steakhouse Restaurant
45915 Warm Springs Blvd Fremont, CARegistration