October 2025 - SAME Portland Post Monthly Lunch Meeting

Signup by September 24 to attend this event (1 week prior)

Lunch meeting:

Embassy Suites Portland - Colonel Lindberg Ballroom

319 SW Pine St, Portland, OR 97204

• A 5-minute walk from MAX Oak Street or 6th & Pine Stations
• Parking is on-street metered parking or $7 Valet parking

1 130-12p: Networking

1 2-1p: Lunch/Speaker

Title of Presentation: Personal Experiences from the Recovery of the 2010-11

Canterbury, NZ Earthquake Sequence

Learning Objectives:

•Expect your life to be disrupted for several years after the earthquake, even if you do not experience direct damage or injury.

•Understand that achieving a no-collapse or life safety design performance does not ensure that a building or facility remains serviceable after the earthquake.

•Be prepared with:

•Disaster response plan and trained land and building safety assessors

•Know where to find your data (e.g., geotechnical data, structural plans, utility plans)

•Have design guidance ready to ensure that everyone is rebuilding in a reasonable way

Speaker Bio:

James Dismuke, Seismic Practice Leader, Sr Assoc, Schnabel Engineering

James is a geotechnical engineer with 26 years of experience, specializing in earthquake engineering evaluations including seismic hazard analyses, ground motion development, seismic ground response analyses, liquefaction, and seismic hazard mitigation. James, a native of Oregon, moved his family to Christchurch, New Zealand in 2010 where he lived and worked during the post-Canterbury Earthquake Sequence rebuild.