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• Designing for Earthquakes: A Manual for Architects. Risk Management Series.
  December 2006, 392 p.
  Identifying Number(s): FEMA-454
  Keywords: Seismic hazards; Site selection; Risk management; Ground motion; Nature of earthquakes; Manuals; Earthquake effects; Earthquakes; Extreme hazards; Seismic design; Architectural design; Eqrthquake hazards; Nonstructural design philosphy; Geotechnical engineering expertise; Site evaluation

• Primer for Design Professionals: Communicating with Owners and Managers of New Buildings on Earthquake Risk. Providing Protection to People and Buildings.
  January 2004, 118 p.
  Identifying Number(s): FEMA-389
  Keywords: ; Site selection; Risk management; Buildings; Hazards; Earthquake resistant structures; Earthquake engineering; Seismic design; Performance; US FEMA; Building construction; Planning; Design

• Holzer, T. L.; Wentworth, C. M.; Bakun, W. H.; Boatwright, J.; Brocher, T. E.
  Comments on Potential Geologic and Seismic Hazards Affecting Mare Island, Solano County, California.
  January 2002, 28 p.
  Identifying Number(s): USGS/OFR-02-425
  Keywords: Site selection; Hazards; Solano County (California); Seiche; Risk assessment; Surface fault rupture; Geologic faults; Tsunami; Seismic events; Safety; Near-source ground motion; Liquid natural gas; Mare Island; Foundation conditions

• Freeman, B. E.
  A New Wind Energy Site Selection Methodology.
  National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. Applied Science and Research Applications., October 1975, 17 p.
  Identifying Number(s): SAI-75-662-LJ
  Keywords: Wind power; Site selection; Wind (Meteorology); Wind power generation; Data acquisition; SIGMET computer program; Site surveys; Wind velocity; Mathematical models; Planning