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  • Huang, Y.; Whittaker, A. S.; Luco, N.
    Performance Assessment of Conventional and Base-Isolated Nuclear Power Plants for Earthquake and Blast Loadings.
    Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Buffalo, NY.; National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., October 28, 2008, 400 p.
    Identifying Number(s): MCEER-08-0019
    Keywords: ; Performance evaluation; Ground motion; Buildings; Risk assessment; Earthquake engineering; Earthquakes; Blast effects; Nuclear power plants; Power reactors; Seismic isolation

  • Wiggins, J. H.; Slosson, J. E.; Krohn, J. P.
    Natural Hazards: Earthquake, Landslide, Expansive Soil Loss Models.
    National Science Foundation, WAshington, DC. Div. of Policy Research and Analysis., December 1978, 166 p.
    Keywords: Damage; Economic impact; Clay soils; Risk; Risk assessment; Cost analysis; Rainfall; Economic models; Injuries; Earthquakes; Landslides; Earth movements; Value; Mathematical models; Expansion; United States; Disasters; Soil water

  • Shinozuka, M.; Rose, A.; Eguchi, R. T.
    Engineering and Socioeconomic Impacts of Earthquakes: An Analysis of Electricity Lifeline Disruptions in the New Madrid Area.
    National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA.; New York State Government, Albany.; Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC.; Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., January 1998, 216 p.
    Identifying Number(s): ['MCEER-MONO-2', 'ISBN-0-9656682-2-3']
    Keywords: Risk assessment; Vulnerability; Public policy; Losses; Social impact; Industry; Electric power generation; Earthquake damage; Electric power distribution; Economic impact; Electric power transmission; Business; Energy use; Policy making; Electric utilities; Lifelines; Earthquake engineering; Economic models; Emergency preparedness; Seismic effects; Electric power industry; New Madrid Seismic Zone; Electric power production; Socioeconomic impacts; Memphis (Tennessee); Regional analysis

  • Kunreuther, H.; Meyer, R.; Van den Bulte, C.
    Risk Analysis for Extreme Events: Economic Incentives for Reducing Future Losses.
    National Inst. of Standards and Technology (BFRL), Gaithersburg, MD. Building and Fire Research Lab., October 2004, 108 p.
    Identifying Number(s): NIST-GCR-04-871
    Keywords: Incentives; Low probabliity-high consequence events; Risk management; Risk assessment; Hazards; Perception; Natural disasters; Cooperation; Extreme events; Economic incentives

  • Beall, K. A.
    Meeting of the UJNR Panel on Fire Research and Safety (13th). Held in Gaithersburg, Maryland on March 13-20, 1996. Volume 1.
    June 1997, 496 p.
    Identifying Number(s): NISTIR-6030-V1
    Keywords: Smoke; Research management; Buildings; Hazards; Risk assessment; Meetings; US NIST; Earthquakes; Carbon monoxide; Fire hazards; Building fires; Safety engineering; Toxicology; Toxicity; Crude oil; Japan; Building materials; Fire safety; United States; Gaithersburg (Maryland)

  • Mohraz, B.; Chung, R. M.; McLane, T. R.
    Recommendations of the Lifeline Policymakers Workshop. Held in January, 1997.
    October 1997, 54 p.
    Identifying Number(s): NISTIR-6085
    Keywords: Hazards; Sewers; Risk assessment; Seismic design; Public safety; Water supply; Liquid fuels; Standards; Telecommunications; Guidelines; Policy making; Electric power; Public utilities; Ground motion; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Meetings; National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program; Transportation systems; Recommendations; Natural gas; Transportation networks

  • Rogers, A. M.; Walsh, T. J.; Kockelman, W. J.; Priest, G. R.
    Assessing Earthquake Hazards and Reducing Risk in the Pacific Northwest. Volume 2.
    January 1998, 244 p.
    Identifying Number(s): USGS-PP-1560
    Keywords: ; Hazards; Ground motion; Risk assessment; Pacific northwest region (United States); Geologic faults; Emergency preparedness; Earthquakes; Risk reduction; Landslides; Seismic effects; Seismology; Tectonics; Disasters

  • Zoback, M. L.
    Proceedings of the Annual Northern California Earthquake Hazards Workshop (1st). Held in Menlo Park, California on January 13-14, 2004.
    January 2004, 144 p.
    Identifying Number(s): USGS/OFR-2004-1424
    Keywords: ; Hazards; Risk assessment; Meetings; Earthquakes; Seismic velocity; Seismic data; Deformation; Research projects

  • Moehle, J. P.
    Preliminary Report on the Seismological and Engineering Aspects of the January 17, 1994 Northridge Earthquake.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., January 24, 1994, 90 p.
    Identifying Number(s): UCB/EERC-94/01
    Keywords: Failure; Ground motion; Damage assessment; Risk assessment; Earthquake engineering; Seismic epicenter; Sites; Aftershocks; Earthquakes; Observation; Instrumentation; Land slides; Soils; Magnitude; Northridge earthquake; Maps; Seismology; San Francisco Bay region; Liquefaction

  • Costantino, C. J.; Miller, C. A.; Heymsfield, E.
    Seismic Effects on Elevated Transit Lines of the New York City Transit Authority.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., December 26, 1989, 132 p.
    Identifying Number(s): NCEER-89-0039
    Keywords: Risk assessment; Earthquake engineering; Earthquake resistant structures; Vulnerability; New York City Transit Authority; Elevated railroads; Earth movements; Seismology; Dynamic structural analysis