UCI Named a Partner in Center’s Quake Research
UC Irvine will play an important role in a new West Coast earthquake engineering research center that will seek to find ways to reduce the cost and casualties from a major temblor.
The National Science Foundation announced this week that UC Berkeley will head the center and draw on the expertise of nine universities, including UCI.
The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center will receive $2 million each year for five years from the federal government, plus another $2 million each year in matching funds from the state, the University of California and Washington state.
Other grants will raise the total available funds for the coming year to more than $6 million, said center director Jack Moehle, professor of civil engineering at Berkeley.
Other partners in the center include the UC campuses at Los Angeles, Davis and San Diego, Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology, USC and the University of Washington.
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