Author: Stanley ScottPublisher: Institute of Governmental Studies Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Policies for Seismic Safety
Author: Stanley ScottPublisher: Institute of Governmental Studies Press
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: Supporting Documentation
Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 9780160926754
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) handbook can be used by trained personnel to identify, inventory, and screen buildings that are potentially seismically vulnerable. The RVS procedure comprises a method and several forms that help users to quickly identify, inventory, and score buildings according to their risk of collapse if hit by major earthquakes. The RVS handbook describes how to identify the structural type and key weakness characteristics, how to complete the screening forms, and how to manage a successful RVS program.
National Earthquake Resilience
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309186773
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
The United States will certainly be subject to damaging earthquakes in the future. Some of these earthquakes will occur in highly populated and vulnerable areas. Coping with moderate earthquakes is not a reliable indicator of preparedness for a major earthquake in a populated area. The recent, disastrous, magnitude-9 earthquake that struck northern Japan demonstrates the threat that earthquakes pose. Moreover, the cascading nature of impacts-the earthquake causing a tsunami, cutting electrical power supplies, and stopping the pumps needed to cool nuclear reactors-demonstrates the potential complexity of an earthquake disaster. Such compound disasters can strike any earthquake-prone populated area. National Earthquake Resilience presents a roadmap for increasing our national resilience to earthquakes. The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) is the multi-agency program mandated by Congress to undertake activities to reduce the effects of future earthquakes in the United States. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-the lead NEHRP agency-commissioned the National Research Council (NRC) to develop a roadmap for earthquake hazard and risk reduction in the United States that would be based on the goals and objectives for achieving national earthquake resilience described in the 2008 NEHRP Strategic Plan. National Earthquake Resilience does this by assessing the activities and costs that would be required for the nation to achieve earthquake resilience in 20 years. National Earthquake Resilience interprets resilience broadly to incorporate engineering/science (physical), social/economic (behavioral), and institutional (governing) dimensions. Resilience encompasses both pre-disaster preparedness activities and post-disaster response. In combination, these will enhance the robustness of communities in all earthquake-vulnerable regions of our nation so that they can function adequately following damaging earthquakes. While National Earthquake Resilience is written primarily for the NEHRP, it also speaks to a broader audience of policy makers, earth scientists, and emergency managers.
Guidelines for earthquake resistant non-engineered construction
Author: Arya, Anand SPublisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9230000329
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Putting Seismic Safety Policies to Work
Author: Martha Blair-TylerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
This report tells how your city and county can move from formulating seismic safety policies to actions that reduce seismic risk. It describes some measures that you can take to address ten issues pertaining to seismic safety. The issues focus on the physical development of a community which is an important determinant of its vulnerability. The objective is to define those things that you, as an official of local government, can do before the earthquake strikes that will directly reduce damage. Measures to improve emergency response and recovery are very important and must be taken by all communities; however, they are not emphasized in this report. The focus is on those actions which can lessen earthquake damage and, therefore, reduce the requirements for emergency response and recovery.
NEHRP Guidelines for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings
Author: Seismic Safety and Land-use Planning--selected Examples from California
Author: M. L. BlairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Methods for using seismic zonation and hazard mapping in land-use planning and regulation.
California Seismic Retrofit Policies
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780788101533
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Seismic Evaluation of Existing Buildings
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781568069920
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Provides design professionals & local building officials with a standard methodology to evaluate buildings of different types & occupancies in areas of different seismicity throughout the U.S.
Reducing the Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings Assessment and Retrofit
Author: Tiago Miguel FerreiraPublisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3039212575
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Reducing the Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings: Assessment and Retrofit that was published in Buildings