Host Member Society: United States National Society (USA)
Short name: Earthquake (TC203)
Please visit our Website for information about the activities of the technical committee!
GeoWorld Group: Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and Associated Problems (TC203)
Dont forget to register for the 5th International Conference on Performance-Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (PBD V) that will take place in Puerto Varas, Chile, on November 4-6 2026. The conference website has all the information on the conference schedule, th
…TC203 will have a strong presence in the 21st ICSMGE to be held in Vienna, Austria on June 14-19 2026.
We are looking forward to Prof. Steve Kramer's 2026 Ishihara Lecture on Tuesday, June 16, at 9:15am local time in Room A.
Furthermore, in collaboration with
…Past TC203 Chair, Prof. Misko Cubrinovski's contributions were celebrated during an International Symposium on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering in Christchurch, NZ on February 2-3, 2026.
Keynote speakers in the symposium included several TC 203 committee members, includ
…We recently lost three giants in the Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering profession, who TC203 would like to acknowledge.
Professors Kenji Ishihara, Liam Finn, and Shamsher Prakash passed in December 2025. Some of their contributions are summarize below:
Professor Ish
…The 2026 International Conference on Computational Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction (CompDSSI) and the 2026 International Advanced School in Soil-structure and Fluid-Structure Interactions in OpenSees (SFSI-OS) will take place in Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy in late Jun
…The deadline for abstract submission for the upcoming PBD-V conference in Puerto Varas, Chile in November 2026, has been extended to October 6 2025.
This conference is the 5th of the PBD conference series established in 2009 by TC203, to focus on contributions to the
…The twenty-third episode of International Interactive Technical Talk has just been launched and is supported by TC203. Sebastiano Foti, Thaleia Travasarou, Brendon Bradley and Francis Jenner Bernales are discussing with Marc Ballouz about "Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering
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Several TC203 members are participating next week at the 8th International Conference on recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. The conference will take place in Guwahati, India, on December 11-14 2024.
TC203 Vice Chair Prof. Sebas
…We are excited to share the full programme for the 2024 International Advanced School on Soil-Structure Interaction in OpenSees: Strategies, Applications, and Perspectives (SSI-OS), taking place in Assisi from 9-11 September 2024, and the 2024 International Workshop on Computatio
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The Innovation and Development Committee of ISSMGE is pleased to announce that through the initiative of TC203 Chair, Prof. Misko Cubrinovski and the conference Chairs Prof. Francesco Silvestri (University of Napoli Federico II, Conference Chairman) and Nicola Moraci (Univers
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The Innovation and Development Committee of ISSMGE is pleased to announce that through the initiative of TC203 Chair, Prof. Ross W. Boulanger and the conference Chair Prof. Misco Cubrinovski, the 371 papers of the 6th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical (6ICEG
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The Innovation and Development Committee of ISSMGE is pleased to announce that through the initiative of TC203 Chair, Prof. Ross W. Boulanger, the 238 papers of the Performance Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering III (PBD-III) that was held on July 16-19, 2017, in
The 7th lnternational Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (VII ICEGE) will be held in Roma, Italy, from 17-20 June 2019. After the increasingly successful conferences held in Tokyo 1995, Lisbon 1999, Berkeley 2004, Thessaloniki 2007, Santiago 2011 and Christchurch 2
…The 3rd International Conference on Performance-based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (PBD-III) will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, from July 16-19, 2017. Details of the technical and social programs are available at: http://pbdiiivancouver.com. E
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| 1 | Chair | Jonathan D Bray | United States |
| 2 | Vice Chair | Sebastiano Foti | Italy |
| 3 | Secretary | Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos | United States |
| 4 | Nominated by TC Chair | Stavroula Kontoe | Greece |
| 5 | Nominated by TC Chair | Shideh Dashti | United States |
| 6 | Nominated by TC Chair | Dr Misko Cubrinovski | New Zealand |
| 7 | Nominated by TC Chair | Mitsu Okamura | Japan |
| 8 | Nominated Member | B.K. Maheshwari | India |
| 9 | Corresponding Member | Deepankar Choudhury | India |
| 10 | Corresponding Member | Cihan Cengiz | Netherlands |
| 11 | Nominated Member | Alexis Acacio | Philippines |
| 12 | Corresponding Member | Mohamed Amir Elgendy | United States |
| 13 | Corresponding Member | Francis Jenner Bernales | Philippines |
| 14 | Corresponding Member | Patrick Adrian Selda | Philippines |
| 15 | Corresponding Member | Ardy Arsyad | United States |
| 16 | Corresponding Member | Behrooz Ghahremannejad | Australia |
| 17 | Corresponding Member | Jonathan Dungca | Philippines |
| 18 | Nominated Member | Sonja Zlatović | Croatia |
| 19 | Nominated Member | Ivan Gratchev | Australia |
| 20 | Corresponding Member | Ioannis Antonopoulos | New Zealand |
| 21 | Nominated Member | Ramón Verdugo | Chile |
| 22 | Nominated Member | Carolina Sigarán-Loría | Netherlands |
| 23 | Nominated Member | M.A. Klyachko | Russia |
| 24 | Nominated Member | Ioannis Anastasopoulos | Switzerland |
| 25 | Corresponding Member | Dimitrios Zekkos | United States |
| 26 | Corresponding Member | Barnali Ghosh | United Kingdom |
| 27 | Corresponding Member | Jonathan Knappett | United Kingdom |
| 28 | Corresponding Member | Katerina Ziotopoulou | United States |
| 29 | Corresponding Member | Makbule Ilgaç | Turkey |
| 30 | Nominated Member | Gang Wang | Hong Kong Special Administrative Region |
| 31 | Corresponding Member | Ching Hung | Chinese Taipei |
| 32 | Nominated Member | Jun Yang | Hong Kong Special Administrative Region |
| 33 | Nominated Member | Hoda Mostafa | Egypt |
| 34 | Nominated Member | Mohamed Abdel-Motaal | Egypt |
| 35 | Corresponding Member | Sophie Avoine | France |
| 36 | Corresponding Member | Erik Sørlie | Norway |
| 37 | Corresponding Member | Salah Sadek | Lebanon |
| 38 | Corresponding Member | Muhsin Rahhal | Lebanon |
| 39 | Corresponding Member | Rob Kayen | United States |
| 40 | Corresponding Member | Sanjay Nimbalkar | Australia |
| 41 | Nominated Member | Nikolay Milev | Bulgaria |
| 42 | Corresponding Member | Heon-Joon PARK | South Korea |
| 43 | Corresponding Member | Francesco Castelli | Italy |
| 44 | Corresponding Member | Clinton Wood | United States |
| 45 | Corresponding Member | Kemal Edip | North Macedonia |
| 46 | Corresponding Member | Jason DeJong | United States |
| 47 | Nominated Member | Julijana Bojadjieva | North Macedonia |
| 48 | Corresponding Member | Murat Monkul | Turkey |
| 49 | Nominated Member | Emmanuel Javelaud | France |
| 50 | Corresponding Member | Pelin Ozener | Turkey |
| 51 | Corresponding Member | Susumu Yasuda | Japan |
| 52 | Corresponding Member | Ikuo Towhata | Japan |
| 53 | Nominated Member | Minh Tam Doan | Vietnam |
| 54 | Corresponding Member | Kenji Ishihara | Japan |
| 55 | Nominated Member | Jan Laue | Sweden |
| 56 | Corresponding Member | Ernesto Cascone | Italy |
| 57 | Corresponding Member | Claudio di Prisco | Italy |
| 58 | Nominated Member | Mark Stringer | New Zealand |
| 59 | Nominated Member | Jin Man Kim | South Korea |
| 60 | Corresponding Member | Filomena de Silva | Italy |
| 61 | Corresponding Member | Davide Noè Gorini | Italy |
| 62 | Corresponding Member | Maria Giovanna Durante | Italy |
| 63 | Nominated Member | Brahian Roman | Peru |
| 64 | Corresponding Member | Ashly Cabas | United States |
| 65 | Corresponding Member | Jack Montgomery | United States |
| 66 | Nominated Member | MARIA CASCÃO FERREIRA DE ALMEIDA | Brazil |
| 67 | Nominated Member | Seyed Mohsen Haeri | Iran |
| 68 | Nominated Member | Cristian Camelo | Brazil |
| 69 | Corresponding Member | Ayfer Erken | Turkey |
| 70 | Nominated Member | Paulo Coelho | Portugal |
| 71 | Nominated Member | Ellen Rathje | United States |
| 72 | Nominated Member | Vlatko Sheshov | North Macedonia |
| 73 | Corresponding Member | Rui Carrilho Gomes | Portugal |
| 74 | Nominated Member | George Athanasopoulos | Greece |
| 75 | Corresponding Member | Steven Kramer | United States |
| 76 | Corresponding Member | Nikolaos Klimis | Greece |
| 77 | Corresponding Member | Russell Green | United States |
| 78 | Nominated Member | George Bouckovalas | Greece |
| 79 | Corresponding Member | Brady Cox | United States |
| 80 | Corresponding Member | Izzat Idriss | United States |
| 81 | Nominated Member | Ross Boulanger | United States |
| 82 | Nominated Member | Duhee Park | South Korea |
| 83 | Nominated Member | Takashi Kiyota | Japan |
| 84 | Nominated Member | Kyohei Ueda | Japan |
| 85 | Corresponding Member | Ryosuke Uzuoka | Japan |
| 86 | Corresponding Member | Mitsu Okamura | Japan |
| 87 | Nominated Member | António Araújo Correia | Portugal |
| 88 | Corresponding Member | Susumu Iai | Japan |
| 89 | Corresponding Member | Motoki Kazama | Japan |
| 90 | Corresponding Member | Armin Stuedlein | United States |
| 91 | Nominated Member | Juan Manuel Mayoral Villa | Mexico |
| 92 | Nominated Member | Nicolas Lambert | Belgium |
| 93 | Nominated Member | Valérie Whenham | Belgium |
| 94 | Nominated Member | Diego Alberto Cordero Carballo | Costa Rica |
| 95 | Corresponding Member | Kil-Wan Ko | South Korea |
| 96 | Corresponding Member | Seokho Jeong | South Korea |
| 97 | Nominated Member | Siau Chen Chian | Singapore |
| 98 | Corresponding Member | Byungmin Kim | South Korea |
| 99 | Nominated Member | Wei F. Lee | Chinese Taipei |
| 100 | Nominated Member | Eleni Stathopoulou | Netherlands |
| 101 | Nominated Member | Christos Vrettos | Germany |
| 102 | Nominated Member | Andrew Lees | Cyprus |
| 103 | Nominated Member | Boominathan Adimoolam | India |
| 104 | Corresponding Member | Dharma Wijewickreme | Canada |
| 105 | Corresponding Member | TEJAS P. THAKER | India |
| 106 | Nominated Member | Finn Liam | Canada |
| 107 | Nominated Member | Mahdi Taiebat | Canada |
| 108 | Corresponding Member | Domenico Gaudio | Italy |
| 109 | Corresponding Member | David Solans | United Kingdom |
| 110 | Corresponding Member | Rui Wang | China |
| 111 | Nominated Member | Sung-Woo Moon | Kazakhstan |
| 112 | Nominated Member | Ángel García-Fontanet | Spain |
| 113 | Corresponding Member | Gustavo Armijo | Spain |
| 114 | Corresponding Member | RUBÉN RUIZ BRAVO | Spain |
| 115 | Corresponding Member | Miguel Ángel Millán Muñoz | Spain |
| 116 | Corresponding Member | Alberto Ledesma | Spain |
| 117 | Nominated Member | Atilla Ansal | Turkey |
| 118 | Nominated Member | Rubén Galindo Aires | Spain |
| 119 | Nominated Member | Kemal Onder Cetin | Turkey |
| 120 | Nominated Member | ARNALDO MARIO BARCHIESI | Argentina |
| 121 | Nominated Member | Christian Ledezma | Chile |
| 122 | Nominated Member | Thu Hang TRAN | Vietnam |
| 123 | Corresponding Member | Bayat Ece | Turkey |
| 124 | Nominated Member | Harold Mantilla | Peru |
| 125 | Corresponding Member | Paulo Orostegui | Chile |
| 126 | Corresponding Member | Jorge Macedo | United States |
| 127 | Nominated Member | Francesco Silvestri | Italy |
| 128 | Nominated Member | Jian-Min Zhang | China |
| 129 | Nominated Member | Lanmin Wang | China |
| 130 | Nominated Member | Stephane BRULE | France |
| 131 | Nominated Member | Zbigniew Bednarczyk | Poland |
| 132 | Nominated Member | Masyhur Irsyam | Indonesia |
| 133 | Nominated Member | Waldemar Świdziński | Poland |
| 134 | Corresponding Member | Andrew Makdisi | United States |
| 135 | Corresponding Member | Alvaro Perez | Peru |
| 136 | Corresponding Member | Jörgen Johansson | Norway |
| 137 | Nominated Member | Raúl Aguilar Becerril | Mexico |
| 138 | Nominated Member | Brian Carlton | Norway |
| 139 | Nominated Member | Amir Kaynia | Norway |
| 140 | Nominated Member | Louis Ge | Chinese Taipei |
| 141 | Corresponding Member | Paolo Zimmaro | Italy |
| 142 | Nominated Member | Brendon Bradley | New Zealand |
| 143 | Corresponding Member | Anna Chiaradonna | Italy |
| 144 | Corresponding Member | Laura Luna | United States |
| 145 | Corresponding Member | Zehan Liu | United States |
| 146 | Corresponding Member | Farzin Shahrokhi | Norway |
The Ishihara Lecture was established in 2004 by the TC203 and ISSMGE, and is the premier award of TC203. It pays homage to the signicant scientic and professional achievements of Kenji Ishihara. The recipient of the Ishihara Lecture is invited to deliver their lecture and associated keynote paper during an International Conference organized by TC203 (ICEGE or PBD Conference series) or the ISSMGE.
TC203 has been publishing the Ishihara lecture papers in Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, and aims to continue this practice.
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The TC203 Young Researcher Award was established in 2012 to recognise early-career scientists and engineers (not exceeding the age of 40) who have exceptional promise for excellence in research and significant contributions in the field of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. The biennial award is presented to recipients at the following TC203 conference (either the ICEGE or the PBD).
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5th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (5ICEGE)
6th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (6ICEGE)
7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (7ICEGE)
Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering Guidance Modules
The main purpose of the guidelines is to improve engineering practice and increase the seismic performance of buildings and infrastructure.
The guidelines have been prepared, primarily, for the use of practising geotechnical engineers but may be of interest to other engineers and council officials.
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Information related to the formation of the TC203, as well as important events that have shaped the field of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering can be found on the ISSMGE HTC website:
https://htc.issmge.org/contributions/technical-committees/tc203-earthquake
