NEHRP Clearinghouse

displaying 11 - 20 results in total 34

  • Principal Threats Facing Communities and Local Emergency Management Coordinators.
    April 1992, 146 p.
    Identifying Number(s): FEMA-191
    Keywords: Terrorism; Hazards; Wildfire; National security; Earthquakes; Hazardous materials; Emergency planning; Severe storms; Communities; Droughts; Transportation; Populations; Radioactivity; Tornadoes; Hurricanes; Fires; Volcanoes; Mitigation; United States; Floods; Disasters

  • Chung, R. M.; Jason, N. H.; Mohraz, B.; Mowrer, F. W.; Walton, W. D.
    Post-Earthquake Fire and Lifelines Workshop. Held in Long Beach, California on January 30-31, 1995. Proceedings.
    August 1995, 58 p.
    Identifying Number(s): NIST/SP-889
    Keywords: ; Damage assessment; Seismic design; Fire damage; Fire fighting; Water supply; Fire research; Liquid fuels; Earthquake damage; Pipelines; Earthquakes; Electric power; Fire suppression; Public utilities; Meetings; Fire hazards; Emergency planning; Fire alarm systems; Fires; Transportation sector; Highways; Fire protection; Sprinkler systems; Natural gas; Telecommunication

  • Spiker, E. C.; Gori, P. L.
    National Landslide Hazards Mitigation Strategy: A Framework for Loss Reduction.
    September 2000, 60 p.
    Identifying Number(s): USGS-OFR-00-450
    Keywords: Mapping; Hazards; Risk assessment; Losses; Control; Costs; Disaster Relief Act of 1974; Earthquakes; Land use; Federal government; Emergency preparedness; Monitoring; Strategies; Reduction; Compliance; Fires; Disasters; Floods; Local government; State government; Landslides; Geological processes; Ground movements; Mitigation

  • Wiggins, J. H.
    Fire Ignitions from the Whittier Narrows Earthquake of October 1, 1987.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Directorate for Engineering., November 8, 1988, 63 p.
    Identifying Number(s): REPT-2020.1
    Keywords: Conflagration; Graphs (Charts); Earthquakes; Sources; Ignition; Forecasting; Intensity; California; Mathematical models; Los Angeles County (California); Fires; Statistical data; Whittier (California)

  • Busch, C. A.; Whitman, R. V.; Becker, J. M.
    Residential Construction in Boston at the Time of the Cape Ann Earthquake of 1755.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Office of Planning and Resources Management., June 1979, 140 p.
    Keywords: Damage assessment; Boston (Massachusetts); Earthquake resistant structures; Structural design; Residential buildings; History; Massachusetts; Construction materials; Fires; Cape Ann earthquake; Dynamic structural analysis

  • Burger, R. M.; Massoglia, M. F.
    RANN Utilization Experience (Case Studies 22 through 31).
    National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. Research Applied to National Needs., August 1976, 288 p.
    Keywords: Storage batteries; Case studies; Projects; Research; Atmospheric physics; Cloud seeding; Smoke; Data acquisition; Earthquakes; Technology utilization; Weather modification; Rocky Mountain Region (United States); Research utilization; Construction; Research applied to national needs; Refuse disposal; X ray fluorescence; Fire spread; Surveys; Utilization; Fires; Computers; Corridor fires; Dredging; Lithium sulfur cells; Technology; Spoil

  • Profile of Fire in the United States, 1992-2001. Thirteenth Edition.
    October 2004, 24 p.
    Identifying Number(s): FEMA/FA-293-ED13
    Keywords: Graphs (Charts); Reporting; Residential buildings; National Incident Reporting System (NFIRS); Occurrence; Fires; United States; Statistics; Tables (Data)

  • Colvard, E. M.; Rogers, J.
    Facing the Great Disaster: How the Men and Women of the U.S. Geological Survey Responded to the 1906 'San Francisco Earthquake'.
    January 2006, 22 p.
    Identifying Number(s): USGS-GIP-31
    Keywords: Mapping; Damage assessment; Buildings; Aftermath; San Francisco (California); Earthquakes; Staffers; Emergency assistance; United States Geological Survey; Topographers; Fires; Geological faults; Federal government employees

  • Are You Ready. Your Guide to Disaster Preparedness.
    September 1990, 102 p.
    Identifying Number(s): FEMA-H-34
    Keywords: ; Storms; Tsunamis; Hazardous materials; Emergency preparedness; Earthquakes; Emergency planning; Nuclear power plants; Shelters; Disaster planning; Hurricanes; Tornadoes; Fires; Floods; Disasters

  • Quarantelli, E. L.
    Development of Collaborative Japan-United States Socio-Behavioral Disaster Research.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., February 1982, 232 p.
    Keywords: ; Hazards; Tsunamis; Snowstorms; Earthquakes; Behavior; Information systems; Bibliographies; Japan; Tornadoes; Hurricanes; Research projects; Fires; Volcanoes; United States; Disasters; Floods