Policies for Seismic Safety
Author: Stanley Scott
Publisher: Institute of Governmental Studies Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 120
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Author: Stanley Scott
Publisher: Institute of Governmental Studies Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011-09-09
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0309186773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States will certainly be subject to damaging earthquakes in the future. Some of these earthquakes will occur in highly populated and vulnerable areas. Coping with moderate earthquakes is not a reliable indicator of preparedness for a major earthquake in a populated area. The recent, disastrous, magnitude-9 earthquake that struck northern Japan demonstrates the threat that earthquakes pose. Moreover, the cascading nature of impacts-the earthquake causing a tsunami, cutting electrical power supplies, and stopping the pumps needed to cool nuclear reactors-demonstrates the potential complexity of an earthquake disaster. Such compound disasters can strike any earthquake-prone populated area. National Earthquake Resilience presents a roadmap for increasing our national resilience to earthquakes. The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) is the multi-agency program mandated by Congress to undertake activities to reduce the effects of future earthquakes in the United States. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-the lead NEHRP agency-commissioned the National Research Council (NRC) to develop a roadmap for earthquake hazard and risk reduction in the United States that would be based on the goals and objectives for achieving national earthquake resilience described in the 2008 NEHRP Strategic Plan. National Earthquake Resilience does this by assessing the activities and costs that would be required for the nation to achieve earthquake resilience in 20 years. National Earthquake Resilience interprets resilience broadly to incorporate engineering/science (physical), social/economic (behavioral), and institutional (governing) dimensions. Resilience encompasses both pre-disaster preparedness activities and post-disaster response. In combination, these will enhance the robustness of communities in all earthquake-vulnerable regions of our nation so that they can function adequately following damaging earthquakes. While National Earthquake Resilience is written primarily for the NEHRP, it also speaks to a broader audience of policy makers, earth scientists, and emergency managers.
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 452
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1994-02-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0309050308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San Francisco area on October 17, 1989, causing 63 deaths and $10 billion worth of damage. This book reviews existing research on the Loma Prieta quake and draws from it practical lessons that could be applied to other earthquake-prone areas of the country. The volume contains seven keynote papers presented at a symposium on the earthquake and includes an overview written by the committee offering recommendations to improve seismic safety and earthquake awareness in parts of the country susceptible to earthquakes.
Author: Martha Blair-Tyler
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report tells how your city and county can move from formulating seismic safety policies to actions that reduce seismic risk. It describes some measures that you can take to address ten issues pertaining to seismic safety. The issues focus on the physical development of a community which is an important determinant of its vulnerability. The objective is to define those things that you, as an official of local government, can do before the earthquake strikes that will directly reduce damage. Measures to improve emergency response and recovery are very important and must be taken by all communities; however, they are not emphasized in this report. The focus is on those actions which can lessen earthquake damage and, therefore, reduce the requirements for emergency response and recovery.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1993-07
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780788101533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. L. Blair
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMethods for using seismic zonation and hazard mapping in land-use planning and regulation.
Author: E. Leroy Tolles
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2003-03-20
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 0892365889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdobe, or mud brick, has been widely used as a building material in the American Southwest, including California. The vulnerability of many original adobe structures to damage or destruction from earthquakes has been of great concern. The guidelines presented here address the practical aspects of this problem and represent the culmination of 12 years of research and testing on the seismic retrofitting of adobe buildings. These guidelines can assist in the planning of seismic retrofitting projects consistent with both conservation principles and established public policy.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1993-07
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781568069920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides design professionals & local building officials with a standard methodology to evaluate buildings of different types & occupancies in areas of different seismicity throughout the U.S.
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers
Publisher: ASCE Publications
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStandard ASCE/SEI 41-06 presents the latest generation of performance-based seismic rehabilitation methodology.