TC203 Earthquake

To promote and facilitate advances in technical recommendations, guidelines, codes, and practices in earthquake geotechnical engineering, with an emphasis on adoption and incorporation of performance-based design principles.  Committee activities seek to facilitate sharing of new developments in performance based design principles and practices from around the world to support efforts by our members to advance guideline and code developments in their countries. Adhoc subcommittees are formed to facilitate and support these international collaborative efforts.

To host and contribute to international conferences, symposiums and other events that bring together the earthquake geotechnical engineering community. A primary committee activity is continuing the successful International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (ICEGE) series, which is held every four years, as well as holding other major events in the intervening years, such as the Satellite Conference in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering series or the Performance Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering series.

ICEGE conferences include:

1^st ICEGE, Tokyo, Japan (1995)

2^nd ICEGE, Lisbon, Portugal (1999)

3^rd ICEGE, Berkeley, USA (2004)

4^th ICEGE, Thessaloniki, Greece (2007)

5^th ICEGE, Santiago, Chile (2011)

6^th ICEGE, Christchurch, NZ (2015)

7^th ICEGE, Rome, Italy (2019)

8^th ICEGE, Osaka, Japan (2024 - coming soon) 

PBD conferences include:

1^st PBDEGE, Tsukuba, Japan (2009)

2^nd PBDEGE, Taormina, Italy (2012)

3^rd PBDEGE, Vancouver, Canada (2017)

4^th PBDEGE, Beijing, China (2022)

The committee supports other ISSMGE or TC conference events by organizing sessions, workshops, or other activities as appropriate for the main event. The committee also seeks to support our committee members in organizing regional conferences, workshops, and other activities that contribute to advances in regional earthquake geotechnical engineering practices.

To promote and facilitate ongoing exchanges across a broad mix of researchers, students, and practitioners working on earthquake geotechnical engineering and related problems. Committee activities seek to ensure strong participation by consultants, regulators, contractors, and other practitioners in all conference, workshop, and related events. The committee actively seeks members from industry and members with strong industry connections to ensure diverse representation in committee activities.