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- 1906 San Francisco Earthquake - Images from the 1907 U.S. Geological Survey report.
americahurrah.com/USGS/Intro.htm
- ABAG Data on Earthquakes and Housing - Videos and other information on typical building damage.
www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/eqhouse.html
- Applied Technology Council (ATC) - Information on engineering applications to mitigate the effects of natural and other hazards on the built environment.
www.atcouncil.org
- Architectural Surety Projects - Sandia National Laboratories program to make buildings more resistant to earthquakes and other natural and man-made insults.
www.sandia.gov/archsur
- Brown Center for Innovation (BCI): Virtual_Tour - Welcome to fascinating trips to the planets of Solar System, the world of Earthquake Engineering, secrets of the Global Weather Machine and more.
www.ecs.csun.edu/~ceam/BCI-Virtual_Tour.htm
- Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) - The Council develops and promotes earthquake risk mitigation regulatory provisions for the nation.
www.bssconline.org/index.html
- California Earthquake Authority - The site of California Department of Insurance provides information on earthquake coverage.
www.insurance.ca.gov/docs/FS-CEA.htm
- California Seismic Safety Commission (CSSC) - Information on seismic risk mitigation and data on economic impact of events.
www.seismic.ca.gov
- 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.
crew.org
- Center for Earthquake Research and Information (ERI) - Research center at the University of Memphis is focusing on the earthquake activities and campus vulnerability studies.
www.ceri.memphis.edu
- Costa Rica Earthquake Engineering Laboratory (CREEL) - Performs studies on earthquake engineering and strong ground motion. The site is in both English and Spanish.
lis.fing.ucr.ac.cr
- CUREE - Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering.
www.curee.org
- 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.
peer.berkeley.edu/testing/index.html
- 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.
www.daido-it.ac.jp/~doboku/miki/kobe1.html
- Directory of Earthquake Engineering Research Facilities (2001) - International Network for Shake Table Simulation
stpp.wdc.sri.com/earthquake/directory
- Disaster of Kobe City (Japan) - The 1995 earthquake records of damage and rehabilitation.
www.city.kobe.jp/cityoffice/15/020/quake/index.html
- Dynamics of Foundation Structures - Research activities of the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University (Japan).
wwwcatfish.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/engindex.html
- 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.
www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/shelpop/bldg.html
- Earthquake Country Handbook (SCEC) - Electronic version of the "Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country" handbook released to Southern Californians in October of 1995.
www.scecdc.scec.org/eqcountry.html
- 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).
nisee.berkeley.edu/eea.html
- Earthquake Engineering and Geosciences Division, Army Corps of Engineers - Information on the ability of the Army to perform earthquake engineering and geosciences research.
geoscience.wes.army.mil
- Earthquake Engineering and other Research Projects - California State University, Northridge research projects in the area of earthquake, wind and terrorist blast protection.
www.ecs.csun.edu/~ceam/CME_research.htm
- Earthquake Engineering Library (Caltech) - This library of the California Institute of Technology supports research in the field of earthquake engineering.
www.library.caltech.edu/collections/earthquake.htm
- Earthquake Engineering Portal - Information by Anastasios Sextos.
evripos.civil.auth.gr/~asextos
- Earthquake Engineering Projects Summaries (NIST) - Information from the Building and Fire Research Laboratory of NIST.
www.bfrl.nist.gov
- Earthquake Engineering research (ERII) - Research program of the Engineering Research Institute of Iceland.
www.afl.hi.is/SIDUR/EEARTH.HTM
- Earthquake Engineering Research Centre (EERC) - Research, teaching and commercial activities at the University of Bristol (UK).
www.fen.bris.ac.uk/civil/research/eerc/index.html
- Earthquake Engineering Research in Canada (CAEE) - Database of activities.
www.civeng.carleton.ca/CAEE
- 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.
www.eeri.org
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (UT Austin) - University of Texas, Austin provides links to Student Chapters of EERI.
www.utexas.edu/students/eeri
- Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory (EERL) - Research activities at Caltech.
www.eerl.caltech.edu
- Earthquake Engineering Technology of New Zealand - Information and services available through the New Zealand Earthquake Engineering Technology Business Cluster.
www.earthquakeengineering.com
- EarthQuake Information NETwork (EQNET) - Links to the web sites dealing with earthquakes and earthquake engineering.
www.eqnet.org
- Earthquake Research Institute (Japan) - Links to Divisions and Research Centers of the Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo.
www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp
- Earthquake Resistance Committee (Japan) - Japan Society of Civil Engineers Special Task Committee of Earthquake Resistance of Civil Engineering Structures' activities information.
www.jsce.or.jp/committee/earth/index-e.html
- Earthquake Resistant Building Construction - Explains about using reinforced hollow concrete block masonry to protect a building from this disaster. Includes a FAQ's page and photos of this technique.
www.geocities.com/gurubhag/home.htm
- Examination: Seismic Principles - Announcement on the California Civil P.E. Examination courses for the Special Civil/Seismic Principles portion.
home.pacbell.net/hiner
- Global Emergency Management System - Searchable database containing links related to Earthquake Engineering and a variety of categories in emergency management.
www.fema.gov/gems
- Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 (Japan) - Special report.
www.kajima.co.jp/tech/hanshin_earthquake/index.html
- 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.
www.ecs.csun.edu/~shustov/Hot_Topics.htm
- ICBO Code Central - International Conference of Building Officials (ICBO) provides information on its development of the International Building Code, Uniform Building Code and related codes for earthquake design and construction.
www.icbo.org/index.html
- 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.
www.iaee.or.jp
- John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center (Stanford University) - News and reports on the advancement of research, education and practice.
blume.stanford.edu
- Linbeck Distinguished Lecture Series in Earthquake Engineering - Online broadcast and archived lectures.
www.nd.edu/~linbeck
- Liquefaction and CPT web site - Links on prediction of liquefaction resistance.
www.liquefaction.com
- Mid-America Earthquake (MAE) Center - Research and education center at University of Illinois activities focusing on earthquake hazards mitigation for the low-frequency, but high consequence seismic events that are possible in Mid-America.
mae.ce.uiuc.edu
- 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.
mceer.buffalo.edu
- National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE) - Information resources, including an online bibliographic database, slides and photographs, selected papers, related websites, software and data.
nisee.berkeley.edu
- National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project (USGS) - Access to probabilistic ground motion hazard maps, faults with slip rates and building code maps.
geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/eq
- National Strong-Motion Program (NSMP) - Information and data for significant siesmic events from the U.S. Geological Survey
agram.wr.usgs.gov
- Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) - Headlines of a major earthquake engineering research equipment project of the National Science Foundation.
www.eng.nsf.gov/nees
- Northridge Earthquake of 1994 - Geologic Hazards Scientific Communications group online publication on USGS response to an urban earthquake.
geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/northridge
- NZSEE Home page - The New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering electronic newsletter and other information.
www.nzsee.org.nz
- Out-of-Plane Seismic Resistance of Masonry Walls - Online publication at WorldSciNet.
ejournals.wspc.com.sg/jee/05/0502/S1363246901000340.html
- Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center - Research center's activities focusing on earthquake issues for the U.S. West Coast.
peer.berkeley.edu
- Pavia Workshop - EERI/IAEE project: Web-Based Encyclopedia of Housing Construction Types in Seismically-Prone Areas of the World.
www.johnmartin.com/EERI/pavia
- 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.
www.ce.pdx.edu/star
- Progress and Challenges in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering - Linbeck Distinguished Lecture Series online.
www.nd.edu/~linbeck/krawinkler.htm
- Public Roads On-Line (Summer 1994) - The Northridge Earthquake: Lessons learned and progress made in seismic-resistant bridge design.
www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/summer94/p94su26.htm
- Risk Analysis 2002 - The Wessex Institute of Technology (UK): Conference on Computer Simulation in Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation.
www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2002/risk02
- Seismic Design and Construction - AISC information on the design and construction of fabricated structural steel buildings.
www.engr.psu.edu/ae/steelstuff/seismic.htm#top
- Seismic Hazards Evaluation & Zoning (CA) - California Program presentation.
www.consrv.ca.gov/dmg/shezp
- Seismic Resistance Experiment Center (Japan) - Aichi Institute of Technology presentation.
www.aitech.ac.jp/seirex
- Seismo-Watch - EQNews - All earthquake news, all the time. Nothing else.
www.seismo-watch.com/EQNEWS/EQNEWS.html
- Shake Table - Information on how to build a shake table to test the resistance of structures to earthquake shaking.
jjlahr.com/science/earth_science/shake
- Shake Table Experiments - Three action exhibits on earthquakes are on public display now at the Denver Federal Center's Earth Science Information Center.
lahr.org/john-jan/earth_science/esic
- ShakeZone for Kids - Classroom exercises and video footage of earthquake damage and shake table testing of building models.
www.ecs.csun.edu/~ceam/ShakeZone.htm
- Shaking Table Laboratory (Japan) - The high-fidelity shaking table, which can simulate any type of movement, at Kajima Technical Research Institute.
www.kajima.co.jp/tech/katri/facility/cont/facility-15.html
- Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) - Participants in research on earthquake hazards from nine institutions transfer earthquake information to the public.
www.scec.org
- Strong Motion Data Center - California Division of Mines and Geology (CDMG) provides possibility to view/download strong motion data.
docinet3.consrv.ca.gov/csmip
- Strong Motion Database (PEER) - Searchable database of strong motion ground records processed by Dr. Walt Silva.
peer.berkeley.edu/smcat
- Strong Motion Database (SCEC) - Relational database providing information about and access to strong motion recordings.
smdb.crustal.ucsb.edu
- Structural Systems and Engineering (SSE) - Information on a NSF research program to support development of new design concepts and technologies for improving the behavior of structural systems subject to natural hazards.
www.eng.nsf.gov/cms/About_CMS/SSE/sse.htm
- The Australian Earthquake Engineering Society (AEES) - A technical society of the Australian Institution of Engineers presents its earthquake related activities.
www.aees.org.au
- 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.
www.trinet.org
- UALR Arkansas Earthquake Center - Information concerning earthquakes, related campus research, design and preparedness.
quake.ualr.edu
- Visual Seismic Analysis animated samples - Holmes Consulting Group presentation.
www.holmesgroup.com/animation.html
- Western Washington Quake video, Feb. 28, 2001 - Seattle television news presentation from the day of the earthquake. Shows effects of shaking.
www.seattleinsider.com/partners/kirotv/news/2001/02/28/video_56.html
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