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Urban Search and Rescue in the Santa Cruz Area Following the Loma Prieta Earthquake.
November 1992, 31 p.
Identifying Number(s): FA-124
Keywords: Damage assessment; Loma Prieta Earthquake; California; Emergency services; Santa Cruz County (California); US FEMA; Earthquake damage; Disaster relief; Urban areas; Search and rescue; Communities; EarthquakesRecommended Post-Earthquake Evaluation and Repair Criteria for Welded Steel Moment-Frame Buildings: Program to Reduce the Earthquake Hazards of Steel Moment-Frame Structures.
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., July 2000, 202 p.
Keywords: Structures; Steel structures; Recommendations; Damage assessment; Costs; Safety; Quality control; Welded joints; Economics; Regulations; Earthquake damage; State of the art; Evaluation and assessments; Buildings; Structural design criteria; Seismic effects; FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency); Building codes; Policy Guide to Steel Moment-Frame Construction (FEMA-354); Quality assurance; Documents; Earthquake engineering; Repair; EarthquakesCastle, R. O.; Packard, R. F.; Dinitz, L. B.
Height Changes in the Epicentral Region Preceding the January 17, 1994 Northridge Earthquake. A Characterization of the Vertical-Displacement Field in Both Space and Time during the Period 1978-1989.
January 2000, 17 p.
Identifying Number(s): USGS/OFR-00-002
Keywords: Damage assessment; Southern Region (California); Northridge (California); San Fernando Valley; Seismic epicenter; Northridge earthquake; EarthquakesHamburger, R. O.
Policy Guide to Steel Moment-frame Construction.
Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., November 2000, 32 p.
Keywords: Damage assessment; Cracking (Fracture); Northridge (California); Earthquake engineering; Los Angeles (California); Welded joints; Fractures (Materials)Bruneau, M.; Inman, D. J.
Proceedings of the Second NCEER Workshop on Mitigation of Earthquake Disaster by Advanced Technologies (MEDAT-2). Held in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 30-December 1, 2000.
National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA. Earthquake Engineering Research Centers Program., July 23, 2001, 342 p.
Identifying Number(s): MCEER-01-0002
Keywords: ; Structures; Damage assessment; Retrofitting; Technology innovation; Structural properties; Damping; Earthquake engineering; Meetings; Liquefaction; Hospitals; Piping systems; Health care facilities; Soil mechanicsEarthquake Probabilities in the San Francisco Bay Region: 2000 to 2030. A Summary of Findings.
January 1999, 60 p.
Identifying Number(s): USGS-OFR-99-517
Keywords: Risk assessment; Probability; Damage assessment; Tectonics; Seismic events; Emergency preparedness; California; Geologic faults; Methodology; San Francisco Bay (California); Ground motion; Geologic history; Urbanized areas; Disaster planning; Suburban areas; EarthquakesBruneau, M.; Whittaker, A.; Reinhorn, A.
Engineering and Organizational Issues Related to The World Trade Center Terrorist Attack. Volume 1: Overview of Damage to Buildings near Ground Zero.
March 2002, 46 p.
Keywords: Analytical methods; Damage assessment; Debris; Ground Zero; Cost effectiveness; Terrorist attacks; New York; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Attack; World Trade Center; Terrorism; Manhattan (New York); Multidisciplinary teams; Structural analysisBerman, J.; Warn, G.; Whittaker, A.; Bruneau, M.
Engineering and Organizational Issues Related to The World Trade Center Terrorist Attack. Volume 2: Reconnaissance and Preliminary Assessment of a Damaged Building Near Ground Zero.
April 2002, 40 p.
Keywords: Nonlinear analysis; Damage assessment; Collapse; Debris; Ground Zero; New York; Research; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Linear analysis; Attack; Reconnaissance; World Trade Center; Infrastructure; Terrorism; Multidisciplinary teams; Gravity loads; Structural analysisHolzer, T. L.; Borcherdt, R. D.; Comartin, C. D.; Hanson, R. D.; Scawthorn, C. R.
Plan to Coordinate NEHRP (National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program) Post-Earthquake Investigations.
Geological Survey, Reston, VA., January 2006, 32 p.
Identifying Number(s): CIRCULAR-1242
Keywords: Damage assessment; National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP); Incident reports; Federal government agencies; Priority setting; Plan implementation; Post-earthquake investigations; Time frames; Web site management; Coordination; Information dissemination; Recommendations; Foreign countries; Earthquakes; Earthquake lossesColvard, 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: Damage assessment; Mapping; Staffers; Emergency assistance; Topographers; United States Geological Survey; Fires; Buildings; San Francisco (California); Federal government employees; Aftermath; Earthquakes; Geological faults