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Earthquakes :: Geophysics

404 Zoning (CA) - California Program presentation.

1906 San Francisco Earthquake - Images from the 1907 U.S. Geological Survey report.

ABAG Data on Earthquakes and Housing - Videos and other information on typical building damage.

Applied Technology Council (ATC) - Information on engineering applications to mitigate the effects of natural and other hazards on the built environment.

Architectural Surety Projects - Sandia National Laboratories program to make buildings more resistant to earthquakes and other natural and man-made insults.
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Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) - The Council develops and promotes earthquake risk mitigation regulatory provisions for the nation.

California Earthquake Authority (CEA) - The site of California Department of Insurance provides information on earthquake coverage.

California Seismic Safety Commission (CSSC) - Information on seismic risk mitigation and data on economic impact of events.
Meta Description: [ Californa Seismic Safety Commission's official website contains cost effective recommendations to reduce losses and speed recovery in the event of earthquakes. ]

Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup (CREW) - A not-for-profit corporation of private and public representatives of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and California communities informs on its activities to reduce the effects of earthquake events.

Center for Earthquake Research and Information (ERI) - Research center at the University of Memphis is focusing on the earthquake activities and campus vulnerability studies.

CUREE - Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering.

404 Current PEER/UC Berkeley Shaking Table Testing - Video footage: Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center at UC Berkeley investigates the progressive collapse of reinforced concrete buildings during earthquake imitations.

Damage of Steel Piers at Kobe Earthquake (Japan) - Information about damage of steel piers by focusing on column and beam members with variable cross-sections.

Disaster of Kobe City (Japan) - The 1995 earthquake records of damage and rehabilitation.

Earthquake and Housing Impacts for Bay Area - Seismic analysis of the extensive Bay Area housing stock including buildings that are broadly classified according to their basic characteristics.

Earthquake Country Handbook (SCEC) - Electronic version of the Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country handbook released to Southern Californians in October of 1995.
Meta Description: [ Southern California versions (English and Spanish) of the science and preparedness handbook produced by the Southern California Earthquake Center in 1995. ]

Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA) - A database of 100,000 records covering the world literature in earthquake engineering since 1971, searchable by author, title, keyword, and date. Produced by the National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE).

Earthquake Engineering and Geosciences Division, Army Corps of Engineers - Information on the ability of the Army to perform earthquake engineering and geosciences research.
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Earthquake Engineering and other Research Projects - California State University, Northridge research projects in the area of earthquake, wind and terrorist blast protection.

Earthquake Engineering Projects Summaries (NIST) - Information from the Building and Fire Research Laboratory of NIST.
Meta Description: [ Major goals of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) are to improve the productivity of the U.S. construction industry, which now faces stiff competition from overseas firms, and to reduce the human and economic losses resulting from fires, earthquakes, winds, and other hazard... ]

Earthquake Engineering Research Center - EERC - Conducts research and public service programs aimed at protecting the public and its property from the destructive effects of earthquakes. Includes online searcheable library. University of California, Berkeley.

Earthquake Engineering Research Centre (EERC) - Research, teaching and commercial activities at the University of Bristol (UK).
Meta Description: [ Department of Civil Engineering sub-site within the University of Bristol web site. ]

404 Earthquake Engineering Research in Canada (CAEE) - Database of activities.

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) - Activities of the national society of engineers, geoscientists, architects, planners, public officials, and social scientists related to earthquake exposure, risk and protection of lifelines and building structures.

404 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (UT Austin) - University of Texas, Austin provides links to Student Chapters of EERI.

Earthquake Engineering Technology of New Zealand - Information and services available through the New Zealand Earthquake Engineering Technology Business Cluster.

EarthQuake Information NETwork (EQNET) - Links to the web sites dealing with earthquakes and earthquake engineering.
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Earthquake Research Institute (Japan) - Links to Divisions and Research Centers of the Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo.

Earthquake Resistance Committee (Japan) - Japan Society of Civil Engineers Special Task Committee of Earthquake Resistance of Civil Engineering Structures' activities information.

EERI student chapter -- University of Minnesota - Events calendar and information on guest speakers and the shake table.
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EqTAP Digital City Tool Box - Multi-lateral research project. Features objectives, research, participants, publications, and case studies.
Meta Description: [ This is the official site of a multi-lateral research project EqTAP. Various paths are available to obtain information. ]

404 Global Emergency Management System - Searchable database containing links related to Earthquake Engineering and a variety of categories in emergency management.

Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 (Japan) - Special report.

Hot Topics in Earthquake, Wind and Blast Protection Engineering - The site contains research papers which are developed at CSUN and presented in a brief and visual format.

International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE) - Links and publications in the field of earthquake engineering for interchange of knowledge, ideas, results of research and practical experience.

John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center (Stanford University) - News and reports on the advancement of research, education and practice.

Laboratory for Earthquake Engineering - Conduct seismic tests with a 6 degree freedom mechanical shaking table simulator, research and structural analysis with the help of reaction and shear walls. Includes reasearch activities and publications. National Technical University Athens.

Linbeck Distinguished Lecture Series in Earthquake Engineering - Online broadcast and archived lectures.

MAST Laboratory, University of Minnesota - Earthquake simulation research laboratory specializing in testing the durability of large-scale structural components. A participant in the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES).
Meta Description: [ The University of Minnesota is one of the most comprehensive public universities in the United States and ranks among the most prestigious. It is both the state land-grant university, with a strong tradition of education and public service, and the state's primary research university, with fa... ]

Mid-America Earthquake Center - MAE - Research and education center focusing on earthquake hazards mitigation for the low-frequency, but high consequence seismic events that are possible in Mid-America. Includes calender of events and webcasts. University of Illinois.

Middle East Seismological Forum - MESF - Non-profit scientific forum that provides a source for authoritative earthquake information on the middle eastern region’s seismicity, seismologists and ongoing scientific activities .

Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) - Description of activities focusing on reduction of earthquake damage and losses through research, development and application of new knowledge and advanced technologies.
Meta Description: [ MCEER is a national center of excellence dedicated to the discovery and development of new knowledge, tools and technologies that equip communities to become more disaster resilient in the face of earthquakes and other extreme events. MCEER accomplishes this through a system of multidisciplinary,... ]

National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE) - Information resources, including an online bibliographic database, slides and photographs, selected papers, related websites, software and data.
Meta Description: [ Earthquake engineering information resources, including an open access archive, slides, images and photographs, selected full-text papers, related websites, earthquake engineering software archive and data ]

National Strong-Motion Program (NSMP) - Information and data for significant siesmic events from the U.S. Geological Survey

Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) - Headlines of a major earthquake engineering research equipment project of the National Science Foundation.

NZSEE Home page - The New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering electronic newsletter and other information.

Out-of-Plane Seismic Resistance of Masonry Walls - Online publication at WorldSciNet.
Meta Description: [ OUT-OF-PLANE SEISMIC RESISTANCE OF MASONRY WALLS ]

Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center - Research center's activities focusing on earthquake issues for the U.S. West Coast.
Meta Description: [ The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) is a nine-campus research center headquartered at the University of California, Berkeley, working to develop, validate, and disseminate performance-based seismic design technologies for buildings and infrastructure to meet the diverse e... ]

404 Pavia Workshop - Web-based encyclopedia of housing construction types in seismically-prone areas of the world.

PEER Strong Motion Database - Relational database providing information about and access to strong motion recordings. Available in both java and text versions.

404 Portland State University Seismic Testing and Applied Research (STAR) Lab - Offers a wide range of seismic, structural, and vibration evaluations utilizing one of the largest shake tables in the Northwest as well as other analytical techniques like finite element analysis.

Progress and Challenges in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering - Linbeck Distinguished Lecture Series online.

Public Roads On-Line (Summer 1994) - The Northridge Earthquake: Lessons learned and progress made in seismic-resistant bridge design.

Seismic Design and Construction - AISC information on the design and construction of fabricated structural steel buildings.
Meta Description: [ Don't be shaky on this subject. ]

Seismic Design Review - Offer courses for the special civil/seismic principles portion of California Civil Professional Engineers examination. Includes course schedule, and instructor details.

Seismic Isolation of Buildings - Information on reinforced concrete base isolation systems designed by the Kazakh Research and Experimental Design Institution.

Seismic Resistance Experiment Center (Japan) - Aichi Institute of Technology presentation.

Seismo-Watch - EQNews - All earthquake news, all the time. Nothing else.
Meta Description: [ Seismo-Watch Global Earthquake Report, Seismo-Watch a professional reporting service specializing in global and regional earthquake reports for multimedia, professionals and the general public. Also produce Earthquake Fax Alert Bulletins and Seismic Searches. ]

Shake Table - Information on how to build a shake table to test the resistance of structures to earthquake shaking.
Meta Description: [ Build a shake table to test the resistance of structures to earthquake shaking. ]

ShakeZone for Kids - Classroom exercises and video footage of earthquake damage and shake table testing of building models.
Meta Description: [ Video footage of earthquake damage and of shake table testing of building models. ]

Shaking Table Laboratory (Japan) - The high-fidelity shaking table, which can simulate any type of movement, at Kajima Technical Research Institute.

Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) - Participants in research on earthquake hazards from nine institutions transfer earthquake information to the public.
Meta Description: [ SCEC is a consortium of over 600 scientists at over 55 research institutions, headquartered at the University of Southern California, that work together to study all aspects of earthquake science. ]

500 Strong Motion Data Center - California Division of Mines and Geology (CDMG) provides possibility to view/download strong motion data.

Structural Dynamics Laboratory - Kyoto University - Research unit specializing in the issues associated with the seismic design of civil engineering structures. Includes staff details and research topics.

Structural Engineering Earthquake Simulation Laboratory - Includes a 12 X12 foot seismic shaking table simulator, and an 18 thick concrete strong floor which covers an overall area of 3400 square feet. Offers material testing equipment for both static and dynamic loading systems; a structural models laboratory; a concrete laboratory; and a multi-story testing bay for testing full-scale components. At the University of Buffalo in New York.
Meta Description: [ NEES@Buffalo, SEESL, NEES, University at Buffalo, The University at Buffalo's (UB) Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) will be a key node in a nationwide earthquake engineering collaboratory - the National Science Foundation's George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earth... ]

Structural Systems and Engineering (SSE) - Information on National Science Foundation research program to support development of new design concepts and technologies for improving the behavior of structural systems subject to natural hazards.

500 The Australian Earthquake Engineering Society (AEES) - A technical society of the Australian Institution of Engineers presents its earthquake related activities.

The CASCADE Project - Promotes collaboration and co-operation between earthquake engineering facilities within the European Union. The site is a resource allowing publication of reports covering comparison of facilities, standardisation of test procedures and quality assurance systems.
Meta Description: [ CASCADE promotes collaboration between seismic and dynamic engineering research facilities in the European Union ]

The George Housner Earthquake Engineering Collection - Supports research in the field of structural engineering related to earthquakes, especially the construction of buildings and infrastructure to withstand earthquakes. Lab reports available to all for download and links to related databases.

500 TriNet: The Seismic System for Southern California - A five-year collaborative project to create a better, more effective real-time earthquake information system for Southern California. It will incorporate new technologies to provide vital information within minutes of an earthquake.

UALR Arkansas Earthquake Center - Information concerning earthquakes, related campus research, design and preparedness.
Meta Description: [ Welcome to the Arkansas Center for Earthquake Education and Technology Transfer, Arkansas' premier center for information concerning earthquakes and earthquake preparedness. Including Public Information, School Resources, Business Continuity, Government Policy, Engineerng Design, and Seismic Rese... ]

USC Strong Motion Research Group - Research on earthquake response of man-made structures, aiming to improve seismic design procedures and to reduce earthquake risks. Located at the University of Southern California.

USGS - National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project - Access to probabilistic ground motion hazard maps, faults with slip rates and building code maps.
Meta Description: [ USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards ]

Visual Seismic Analysis animated samples - Holmes Consulting Group presentation.

Western Washington Quake video, Feb. 28, 2001 - Seattle television news presentation from the day of the earthquake. Shows effects of shaking.
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