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  • Wolfe, M. R.
    Urban Scale Vulnerability, Proceedings of the U.S.-Italy Colloquium on Urban Design and Earthquake Hazard Mitigation, Rome, Italy, October 12-16, 1981.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., June 1982, 160 p.
    Keywords: Regional planning; Earthquake resistant structures; Urban planning; Land use; Foreign technology; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Hazards; Meetings; Urban areas; Building codes; Earthquakes

  • Roberts, R. B.; Milliman, J. W.; Ellson, R. W.
    Eathquakes and Earthquake Predictions: Simulating Their Economic Effects.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., September 30, 1982, 270 p.
    Keywords: ; Damage; Investments; Disasters; Income; Economic impact; Hazards; Employment; Losses; Relocation; Earthquakes

  • Natural Hazards Observer, Volume VII, Number 3, January, 1983.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., January 1983, 14 p.
    Keywords: Emergency planning; Newsletters; Landslides; Disaster preparedness; Disasters; Disaster relief; Hazards; Flood plain zoning; Management; Warning systems; Flood insurance; Earthquakes

  • Jones, B. G.; Tomazevic, M.
    Proceedings of the International Conference (3rd): The Social and Economic Aspects of Earthquakes and Planning to Mitigate their Impacts Held at Bled, Yugoslavia on June 29-July 2, 1981.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., January 1982, 635 p.
    Keywords: Populations; Vulnerability; Emergency planning; Attitudes; Construction; Disaster preparedness; Renovating; Foreign technology; Risk; State government; Disaster relief; Social effect; Meetings; Economic impact; Hazards; Management; Rehabilitation; Earthquakes

  • Natural Hazards Observer, Volume 7, Number 6, July 1983.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., July 1983, 15 p.
    Keywords: Coasts; NOAA; Disasters; Hazards; Flood forecasting; Weather forecasting; Storms; Management; Warning systems; Coastal zone management; Earthquakes

  • McCaffrey, M. A.; O'Rourke, T. D.
    Surface Faulting and Its Effect on Buried Pipelines.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., November 1983, 198 p.
    Identifying Number(s): GER-83-10
    Keywords: San Fernando (California); Earthquake resistant structures; Soils; Stress relaxation; Hazards; Gas pipelines; Pipelines; Gas distribution; Earthquakes; Geological faults

  • Yin, R. K.; Moore, G. B.
    Innovations in Earthquake and Natural Hazards Research: Hazards Insurance.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., April 1984, 58 p.
    Identifying Number(s): ISBN-0-942570-09-X
    Keywords: Probability theory; Consumer affairs; Insurance; Disasters; Risk; Hazards; Households; Surveys; Decision making

  • Tierney, K. L.; Petak, W. J.; Hahn, H.
    Disabled Persons and Earthquake Hazards.
    National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA., cJanuary 1988, 170 p.
    Keywords: ; Emergency preparedness; Senior citizens; Emergency planning; Nursing homes; Disasters; Intermediate care facilities; Earthquake; Risk assessment; Literature surveys; Social effect; Hazards; Handicapped persons; Physically handicapped; Case studies; California; Earthquake damage; Fires; Buildings; Elderly persons; Losses; Disabled persons; Local planning

  • O'Rourke, M. J.; Liu, X.
    Response of Buried Pipelines Subject to Earthquake Effects.
    January 1999, 276 p.
    Identifying Number(s): ['MCEER-99-MN03', 'ISBN-0-9656682-3-1']
    Keywords: Buried objects; Geologic faults; Seismic waves; Landslides; Liquefaction; Soil structure interactions; Seismic surface waves; Mitigation; Body waves; Attenuation; Hazards; Lifelines; Failure modes; Earthquake damage; Seismic effects; PGD (Permanent Ground Deformation); Ground motion; Wave propagation; Underground structures; Structural response; Pipelines; Dynamic structural analysis

  • 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: Emergency preparedness; Landslides; Federal government; Disasters; Floods; Reduction; Geological processes; Mitigation; Control; Risk assessment; Mapping; Costs; State government; Hazards; Land use; Ground movements; Disaster Relief Act of 1974; Fires; Local government; Losses; Compliance; Monitoring; Strategies; Earthquakes