Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program in NEHRP, Investing in a Safer Future
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
The USGS Earthquake Hazards Program in NEHRP, Investing in a Safer Future
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Fact Sheet
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Waiting for the Big One
Author: Charlotte Mazel-CabassePublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030152898
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book helps understand how the future Big One (a large-scale and often-predicted earthquake) is understood, defined, and mitigated by experts, scientists, and residents in the San Francisco Bay Area. Following the idea that earthquake risk is multiple and hard to grasp, the book explores the earthquake’s “mode of existence,” guiding the reader through different epistemic moments of the earthquake-risk definition. Through in-depth interviews, the book provides a rarely seen anthropology of risk from the perspective of experts, scientists, and concerned residents for whom the possibility of partial or complete destruction of their living environment is a constant companion of their everyday lives. It argues that the characterization of the threats and the measures taken to limit its impacts constitute an integrated part of both their residential experiences and their professional practices.
New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey
Author: New Publications of the Geological Survey
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The Plan to Coordinate NEHRP Post-earthquake Investigations
Author: Thomas L. HolzerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Reducing earthquake losses
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428920374
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Earthquakes have caused massive death and destruction, and potentially damaging earthquakes are certain to occur in the future. Although earthquakes are uncontrollable, the losses they cause can be reduced by building structures that resist earthquake damage, matching land use to risk, developing emergency response plans, and other means. Since 1977, the federal government has had a research oriented program to reduce earthquake losses the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). This program has made significant contributions toward improving our understanding of earthquakes and strategies to reduce their impact. Implementing action based on this understanding, however, has been quite difficult. This chapter provides an introduction to earthquakes: a sum mary of the earthquake hazard across the United States, a review of the types of losses earthquakes cause, a discussion of why earthquakes are a congressional concern, and an introduction to mitigation actions taken prior to earthquakes that can reduce losses when they occur. The federal policy response to date, NEHRP is then described and reviewed. Finally, specific policy options for improving federal efforts to reduce future earthquake losses are presented.