MCEER Team Travels to Chile

Gilberto Mosqueda, University at Buffalo, and Gokhan Pekcan, University of Nevada, Reno, are on their way to Santiago, Chile today. They will arrive in Santiago at 7:00 a.m. local time on Saturday March 6, 2010. They will be joined by Rodrigo Retamales, a professional structural engineer, in Santiago to begin their reconnaissance mission, which will focus on damage to nonstructural components. They are part of the EERI team.