Dr Tiziana Rossetto (UCL, EPICentre) and Dr Beverley Adams (ImageCat Ltd) talk about the Haiti Earthquake and the Virtual Disaster Viewer (VDV) in UCL People Magazine:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/alumni/alumni-news/ucl-people/uclp_2010 
The creation of the VDV is part of the EPICentre’s IMPACT and Resilience Indicator Project in collaboration with ImageCat Ltd.

We have just added the following vacancies within partnering organisations, UNHABITAT and CordAid, to our Jobs page:

Human Settlements Officer/Earthquake Engineer Wanted (based in Iran)
CordAid: Team Member Needed to Facilitate Data Analysis (Short Term Position in Haiti)

For more information visit our jobs page: http://www.epicentreonline.com/?page_id=9

The Tsunami Generator at H. R. Wallingford is the first to recreate a trough-led wave, tsunami waves that drain water from beaches on approach and which were responsible for the devastation seen in the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004. Tiziana Rossetto (Director of the EPICentre) spoke to New Scientist and “Wired” about the pioneering work that looks [...]

Tiziana Rossetto spoke with the New Scientist about the kinds of careers aspiring earthquake engineers can pursue. The MSc in Earthquake Engineering with Disaster Management was also mentioned as course for would-be engineers hoping to work in the field.
See the full article here:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527501.700-how-to-build-a-way-out-of-disaster.html?full=true

Vernon Harcourt Lecture 2010
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is pleased to announce that the Vernon Harcourt Lecture will be taking place on Monday 22 February 2010 at One Great George Street, Westminster, London.
This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor William Allsop, who will speak on:
“Historic British Breakwaters: What did we build between 1600 [...]

Arup are making available their publication “Lessons from Aceh: Key Considerations in Post-Disaster Re-construction”, to mark the 5th anniverary of the tsuami. The report is written by Jo da Silva, Director for International Development at Arup.
The document is downloadable for free at www.arup.com/internationaldevelopment 
A flyer is attached here: lessons-from-aceh_flyer

Dr Tiziana Rossetto spoke about the 2010 Haiti Earthquake in ‘Haiti’s Killer Quake: Why it Happened’, a documentary screened on 2nd February on Channel 4.
The devastation of the earthquake, which hit Haiti on the 12th January this year, may have created the biggest humanitarian crisis of the past decade. The documentary looked at what happened [...]

Victoria Sword-Daniels joined a team of European researchers in Naples on the 18th January to assess in detail the vulnerability of the Vesuvian Villas to volcanic hazards. The findings will be used to ascertain the best way of preserving the villas.
The mission to Vesuvius was funded under the Cost C26 Action (‘Urban Habitat Constructions under [...]

The Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation Team (EEFIT) has recently made its entire collection of field mission reports available online for free. The reports, dating from 1985 onwards, detail the extent of structural damage from an earthquake event and discuss the performance of civil engineering and building structures under that seismic loading. Each report is heavily illustrated with [...]

We can confirm that the proceedings of our “Cities at Risk: Living with Perils in the 21st Century Symposium” held on the 26th October 2009, will be published in the form of a book by Springer (http://www.springer.com) as part of its Natural Hazards Series.
The book will be called “Cities at Risk: Living with Perils in [...]