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• Creating a Seismic Safety Advisory Board: A Guide to Earthquake Risk Management.
  August 1995, 94 p.
  Identifying Number(s): FEMA-266
  Keywords: ; Risk assessment; Board members; Safety engineering; Financing; Workshops; Staffing; Advisory boards; Earthquakes

• Odum, J. K.; Williams, R. A.; Stephenson, W. J.; Worley, D. M.; von Hillebrandt-Andrade, C.
  Near-Surface Shear Wave Velocity Versus Depth Profiles, V(s)30, and NEHRP Classifications for 27 Sites in Puerto Rico.
  January 2007, 47 p.
  Identifying Number(s): USGS/OFR-1174
  Keywords: NEHRP Classifications; Seismic data; Site velocities; Puerto Rico; Wave velocities; Depth profiles; Data collection; Shear waves; Refraction-reflection profiling techniques; Tables (Data); Data analysis; Earthquakes

• Frankel, A. D.; Stephenson, W. J.; Carver, D. L.; Williams, R. A.; Odum, J. K.
  Seismic Hazard Maps for Seattle, Washington, Incorporating 3D Sedimentary Basin Effects, Nonlinear Site Response, and Rupture Directivity.
  January 2007, 82 p.
  Identifying Number(s): USGS/OFR-2007-1175
  Keywords: Damage patterns; Amplitude; Ground-motion pulses; Sedimentary basins; Seismology; Three dimensions; Seattle (Washington); Hazard maps; Duration; Earthquakes

• Miles, S. B.; Keefer, D. K.
  Comprehensive Areal Model of Earthquake-Induced Landslides: Technical Specification and User Guide.
  January 2007, 69 p.
  Identifying Number(s): USGS-OFR-2007-1072
  Keywords: ; Soils; Design; Landslides; User guides; Hazards; Maps; Rocks; Earthquakes

• Jones, L. M.; Bernknopf, R.; Cox, D.; Goltz, J.; Hudnut, K.; Mileti, D.; Perry, S.; Ponti, D.; Porter, K.; Reichle, M.; Seligson, H.; Shoaf, K.; Treiman, J.; Wein, A.
  ShakeOut Scenario. Version 1.0.
  January 2008, 312 p.
  Identifying Number(s): ['USGS-OFR-2008-1150', 'CGS-25']
  Keywords: Seismic design; Emergency preparedness; Scenarios; Kern County (California); Orange County (California); Damage assessment; Imperial County (California); San Andreas Fault; Riverside County (California); San Bernardino County (California); California; Aftershocks; Los Angeles County (California); Buildings; Casualties; Economic impact; San Diego County (California); Socioeconomic factors; Utilities; Emergency response; Geology; Ventura County (California); Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Earthquakes

• Kafali, C.; Grigoriu, M.
  System Performance Under Multi-Hazard Environments.
  Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Buffalo, NY.; National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., March 4, 2008, 250 p.
  Identifying Number(s): MCEER-08-0006
  Keywords: System performance; Probabilistic models; Natural disasters; Hurricanes; Ground accelerations; Structural systems; Performance assessments; Design alternatives; Wind velocities; Multi-hazard environments; Nonstructural systems; Earthquakes

• Proceedings of the 2007 Earthquake Engineering Symposium for Young Researchers (on CD-ROM).
  Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Buffalo, NY.; National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., November 2007,
  Keywords: Students; Universities; Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER); Symposium; Research papers; Undergraduate students; Proceedings; Research; United States; Earthquake engineering; Colleges; Tsunamis; Engineering; Earthquakes

• Wood, N.; Soulard, C.
  Variations in Community Exposure and Sensitivity to Tsunami Hazards on the Open-Ocean and Strait of Juan de Fuca Coasts of Washington.
  January 2008, 44 p.
  Identifying Number(s): USGS-SIR-2008-5004
  Keywords: Statistical analysis; Tsunamis; Washington (State); Vulnerability assessments; Economic data; Coastal areas; Land cover data; Figures; Composite indices; Hazards; Tables (Data); Sensitivity; Strait of Juan de Fuca; Natural disasters; Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) earthquake; Exposure; Communities; Economic assests; Critical facilities data; Geographic information system tools; Population data; Earthquakes

• Phelps, G. A.
  Analysis of a Spatial Point Pattern: Examining the Damage to Pavement and Pipes in Santa Clara Valley Resulting from the Loma Prieta Earthquake.
  January 2007, 51 p.
  Identifying Number(s): USGS-OFR-2007-1442
  Keywords: Loma Prieta Earthquake; California; Santa Cruz County (California); Earthquake damage; Pipes; Pavement; Earthquakes

• Kayen, R.; Scasserra, G.; Stewart, J. P.; Lanzo, G.
  Shear Wave Structure of Umbria and Marche, Italy, Strong Motion Seismometer Sites Affected by the 1997 Umbria-Marche, Italy, Earthquake Sequence.
  January 2008, 46 p.
  Identifying Number(s): USGS-OFR-2008-1010
  Keywords: ; Italy; Surface waves; Seismometers; Seismic arrays; Shear stresses; Velocity; Earthquakes