Educational Videos

EarthScope Consortium (formerly IRIS – Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology) YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/@EarthScope_science Content varies from 5 to 10 minute seismology content videos (e.g. earthquake magnitude) to full length in-depth content (e.g. recorded webinars by seismologists)

E2SCALA YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@e2scala/featured

• Seismic Waves
• Seismic Waves (Spanish captions)
• Shear wave velocity measurements via Downhole Arrays
• Site Effects

On the topic of seismic site response analysis:

• 2025 Joyner Lecture by  Laurie Baise
• 2025 ASCE Geo-Institute Summer School Episode on Site Response Analysis by Ashly Cabas
• 2022 Ralph Peck Lecture by Ellen Rathje
• 2019 Terzaghi Lecture by Ed Idriss
• 2016 Joyner Lecture by Jonathan Stewart

On the topic of liquefaction:

• EERI Webinar: Issues associated with simplified methods to estimate liquefaction triggering by Gonzalo Montalva (Chile)
• ASCE Geo-Institute 2016 Seed Lecture on Liquefaction Triggering in Sands During Earthquakes by Dr. Ricardo Dobry (Chile), NAE

Training Tools

• OpenQuake – OpenQuake is an open-source software for seismic hazard and risk assessment https://www.training.openquake.org/
• OpenQuake training in Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rbDm-wiwbw&list=PL08aqbvcszvT6YG353CnIyL9d7gdZblBX 
• Remote Online Sessions for Emerging Seismologists (ROSES) – Recorded topics on various fundamental topics in seismology https://www.iris.edu/hq/inclass/course/roses
• United States Universities Council on Geotechnical Education and Research (USUCGER) resources
• ASCE Geo-Institute Summer School Episodes
•  Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI) Lecture Series

Software:

• Live Jupyter Notebooks for seismology
• 1D Site response Analysis software STRATA by Kottke & Rathje
• 1D Site response Analysis software RSSeismic (formerly DEEPSOIL) by Hashash and students
• SEISMOSOIL: A software package for 1D site-specific response analysis by D. Asimaki
• Dr. Layer: Arduino
• SeisSol – high-performance computational seismology code designed to simulate complex earthquake scenarios and seismic wave propagation. https://cheese2.eu/codes/seissol/ 
• OpenSEES – Open System for Earthquake Engineeirng Simulation  – https://peer.berkeley.edu/opensees 
• gmprocess – USGS open access python toolkit for retrieving and processing ground-motion waveform data – https://ghsc.code-pages.usgs.gov/esi/groundmotion-processing/index.html

Data

• DesignSafe – cyberinfrastructure that provides web-based tools to manage, analyze, understand, and publish critical data for research to understand the impacts of natural hazards. The capabilities within the DesignSafe infrastructure are available at no cost to all researchers working in natural hazards. The computation and data management resources are provided by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas at Austin. https://www.designsafe-ci.org/ 
• Puerto Rico Strong Ground Motion Program – https://prsmp.uprm.edu/ 
• Center for Engineering Strong Ground Motion Data (CESMD) – https://www.strongmotioncenter.org/ 
• Ground Motion Data in Haiti – https://ayiti.unice.fr/ayiti-seismes/#/ 
• Citizen Seismology in Haiti – https://ayiti.unice.fr/sismo-ayiti/ 
• Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) Ground Motion Databases  for Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) Projects- https://peer.berkeley.edu/peer-strong-ground-motion-databases 
• EarthScope Data – https://www.unavco.org/data/data.html 

Mentorship

• Consejos para estudiantes y profesionales iniciando sus carreras en español por el Profesor Jack Baker
• The Geotechnical Engineering Podcast with Ashly Cabas on “How to make a difference in the filed of earthquake engineering” (Also available as a video.)
• The Geotechnical Engineering Podcast with Ashly Cabas on “Embracing Kindness in Leadership”

Other Organizations of Interest

• Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)  – https://www.eeri.org/ 
• Consortium of Organizations for Strong Motion Observation Systems (COSMOS) – promotes collaboration among programs and institutions to improve strong-motion measurements, and solve common problems with instrumentation and data – https://strongmotion.org/
• Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission
• GeoHazards International resources tab
• Asociación Chilena de Sismologia e Ingenieria Antisismica
• Seismological Society of America 
• Global Earthquake Model 
• Natural Hazards Center
• Unesco Tsunami Program – https://tsunami.ioc.unesco.org/en
• Centro Regional de Sismología para América del Sur (CERESIS) – https://www.ceresis.org/
• Unión Geofísica Mexicana – https://uniongeofisicamexicana.org.mx/
• SZ4D brings together scientists across disciplines to build tools and resources needed to transform forecasting earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, landslides, and debris flows. – https://www.sz4d.org/about
• Ollin Project: Identification of seismogenic faults in populated areas on Latin America and its incorporation into seismic hazard assessment – https://www.ollinproyecto.com/

Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance

• Geotechnical Extreme Events Association (GEER) – investigation and documentation of geotechnical impacts of natural hazards including earthquakes. Open-access reports from major events are available and professionals can volunteer to contribute to future reconnaissance missions.  https://www.geerassociation.org/ 
• Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) – https://www.steer.network/ 
• RAPID – provides scientists and engineers with advanced reconnaissance instrumentation, field expertise, and comprehensive support to collect perishable data from disasters. https://rapid.designsafe-ci.org/ 
• Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Learning From Earthquakes (LFE) – Post-earthquake reconnaissance program of the EERI  https://learningfromearthquakes.org/ 

Podcasts

• E2SCALA Vision and Mission – A conversation with Dr. Aaron Velasco and Monica Alvillar about supporting education and research
• Discussing Earthquakes with Jonathan Vann Ness
• Conociendo Líderes Geotecnicos