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SUMMARY:Observations from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake - Dr Matthew DeJong (C
 UED - Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering)\, Dr Barnali Ghosh (Mott 
 MacDonald - Senior Principal Engineer)
DTSTART:20161012T180000Z
DTEND:20161012T190000Z
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CONTACT:Stefan Ritter
DESCRIPTION:Overview: \nThis talk will present observations and analysis r
 esults from an EEFIT reconnaissance mission to Nepal after the earthquake 
 in April 2015. The talk will consider the effects of the earthquake from b
 oth a structural and geotechnical engineering perspective\, including disc
 ussion of heritage structures\, foundation failures\, the unique character
 istics of the ground motion recorded in Kathmandu\, and local amplificatio
 n of ground motion within the Kathmandu valley.\n\nBiographies:\nDr Ghosh 
 is a senior principal engineer at Mott MacDonald with specialism in Geo se
 ismic hazards. Previously\, Barnali worked for Arup as a seismic engineer\
 , was a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and obtained a PhD 
 from the University of Cambridge. She carried out a  M.Tech in geotechnica
 l engineering at the Jadavpur University and an undergraduate degree from 
 the Bhagalpur Engineering College. Her main experiences are designing foun
 dations in seismic areas\, identifying and calculating seismic hazards and
  performing detailed dynamic soil-structure interaction simulations. Barna
 li also teaches parts of the Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Course at
  UCL\, London.\n\nDr DeJong is a Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering
  at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow and Director of Studies in En
 gineering at St Catharine's College. Previously\, he was a Fulbright Schol
 ar at the Technical University of Delft and completed his PhD at the Massa
 chusetts Institute of Technology. He holds an undergraduate degree in Civi
 l Engineering from the University of California\, Davis\, and worked as a 
 structural design engineer in California.
LOCATION:OCR\, St. Catharine's College
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