Earthquakes

Citation

(2001), "Earthquakes", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 10 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2001.07310bag.006

Earthquakes

Earthquakes

RADIUS (Risk Assessment Tools for Diagnosis of Urban Areas Against Seismic Disaster)

http://www.geohaz.org/radius.html

One of the major initiatives of the recently completed United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) addressed the issue of reducing seismic risk in large cities of the developing world. Although officially completed over a year ago, the RADIUS (Risk Assessment Tools for Diagnosis of Urban Areas Against Seismic Disaster) Project continues to produce useful tools and information. Indeed, in the last two months, the project has released a summary report and CD-ROM.

The report reviews all projects carried out under RADIUS. The CD-ROM contains the project description, reports from the collaborating institutes and case-study cities, guidelines for RADIUS-type projects, several additional documents and reports, as well as the project's "tool for earthquake damage estimation." These materials are being distributed to the various cities, organizations, and individuals involved in the RADIUS project; however, all the information is currently being uploaded to the World Wide Web at the address above for anyone to download and use.

For more information, contact Rajib Shaw, UNCRD, Disaster Management Planning Hyogo Office, IHD Center Building, Third Floor, 1-5-1 Wakinohama-Kaigan-Dori, Chuo-ku, Kobe 651-0073, Japan. Tel: +81 78 230 7561; Fax: +81 78 230 7751; E-mail: shaw@hyogo.uncrd.or.jp

The National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC)

http://neic.usgs.gov/ http://neic.usgs.gov/products-andservices.htmlhttp://neic.usgs.gov/neis/pANDs/neic-maps.html

The National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) Web site not only provides data, maps, and other information about recent quakes around the globe, it also offers general earthquake information, sections on "Today in earthquake history" and "Large earthquakes in 1999/2000," as well as facilities enabling users to search for information about a specific event or to report a quake. The "Products and services" section offers an earthquake e-mail notification service, several USGS publications on quakes, and numerous NEIC maps portraying local, national, and global seismicity.

Architectural Practice and Earthquake Hazards

http://www.seismic.ca.gov/sscpubs.htm

The California Seismic Safety Commission and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) California Council have made the 1991 publication Architectural Practice and Earthquake Hazards: The Architect's Role in Earthquake Hazard Mitigation available for download from this site. The booklet includes several checklists, guides, and other sample documents to aid seismic design and construction.

AnatolianQuake.org

http://www.anatolianquake.org

AnatolianQuake.org is a "curated depository of data on the Kocaeli-Golcuk and Duzce-Bolu earthquakes of 1999," maintained by Bogazici University, University of Kansas, University of Michigan, Middle East Technical University, University of Minnesota, Notre Dame University, Purdue University, and University of Texas at Austin. The site is intended as a repository of building data and drawings; bridge data and drawings; ground motion, geophysical, geotechnical, geological, economic, and organizational data; photographs; maps; a preliminary report; FTP downloads and uploads; contacts; and links to additional information.

The Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)

http://mceer.buffalo.edu/research/taiwaneq9-99/default.asp http://921.ncree.gov.tw

The Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) recently published The Chi-Chi, Taiwan Earthquake of September 21, 1999: Reconnaissance Report (MCEER-00-0003), which discusses the physical and economic damage caused by that event. Shortly after the earthquake occurred, MCEER scientists visited the devastated area and developed a program to investigate the disaster in cooperation with the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) at the National Taiwan University in Taipei. This report contains observations on the performance of:

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  critical facilities, electric power lifelines, highway bridges, and buildings;

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  geotechnical issues;

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  economic impacts; restoration and recovery; and

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  applications of remote sensing.

Initial observations and impressions from the Chi-Chi earthquake are reported on the MCEER Web site above, including selected sections from the full-length report, as well as numerous photographs taken during the reconnaissance. Additional information about the earthquake can be obtained through NCREE's Web site: http://921.ncree.gov.tw/

To order The Chi-Chi, Taiwan Earthquake of September 21,1999: Reconnaissance Report, contact MCEER Publications, State University of New York at Buffalo, 107 Red Jacket Quadrangle, Buffalo, NY 14261, USA. Tel: (716) 645 3391 (ext. 105); Fax: (716) 645 3399; E-mail: mceer@acsu.buffalo.edu; WWW: http://mceer.buffalo.edu

The price of $30 covers shipping within the USA. For international shipping charges, contact the MCEER publications office.

Catalogue of Hawaiian Earthquakes

http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/profpaper/pp1623

The newly published Catalog of Hawaiian Earthquakes 1823-1959 (USGS Professional Paper 1623), by Fred Klein and Thomas L. Wright, available from this URL, contains information extrapolated from historical accounts concerning more than 17,000 earthquakes in the Hawaiian Islands, mostly on the Island of Hawaii, from 1823 to 1959 (after which, modern instrumentation and techniques allowed comprehensive cataloging).