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four years (in alternation with the WCEE Conferences). The last important ones
were in Vienna in 1994, in Paris in 1998, in London in 2002, in Geneva in 2006,
where for the first time a joint Conference of ECEE and ESC (European
Seismological Commission) take place as the First European Conference on
Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (ECEES). This was an excellent forum
for idea exchanges between seismologists and earthquake engineers.
Similar chain of conferences is organized by US Earthquake Engineering
Research Institute (EERI) as National Conference on Earthquake Engineering
(NCEE), the last ones being organized in Seattle in 1998, in Boston in 2002 and
San Francisco in 2006 (to commemorate 100 years from the 1906 San Francisco
earthquake). The EERI, founded in 1949 in Oakland (California), is a national
nonprofit technical society of engineers, geoscientists, architects, planners, public
officials and social scientists, having the main objective to reduce earthquake risk
by advancing both the science and practice of Earthquake Engineering.

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