This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake in the Bay Area, which caused 63 deaths and $10 billion in damage and halted the 1989 World Series. UCLA has faculty with earthquake-related expertise.

 

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.

Media contact:

Wileen Wong Kromhout | 310-206-0540 | 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.

Media contact:

Wileen Wong Kromhout | 310-206-0540 | wwkromhout@support.ucla.edu

 

David Jackson, professor of Earth and space sciences, is a geophysicist and an authority on seismology and earthquake forecasting.

Media contact:

Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu

 

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

Media contact:

Wileen Wong Kromhout | 310-206-0540 | wwkromhout@support.ucla.edu

 

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

Media contact:

Wileen Wong Kromhout | 310-206-0540 | wwkromhout@support.ucla.edu

 

Scott Brandenberg, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, specializes in geotechnical earthquake engineering.

Media contact:

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

Anthony Orme, professor of geography and a member of the UCLA Institute of the Environment, is an authority on plate tectonics, coastal geomorphology and sea-level change.

Media contact:

Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu

 

 PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF EARTHQUAKES

 

Emanuel Maidenberg, a psychologist at the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, is an expert on the stress and anxiety caused by natural disasters.

Media contact:

Mark Wheeler | 310-794-2265 | mwheeler@mednet.ucla.edu

 

Melissa Brymer, director of terrorism and disaster programs at the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, focuses on the ways in which children deal with stress following disasters.

Media contact:

Mark Wheeler | 310-794-2265 | mwheeler@mednet.ucla.edu