Seventh US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (7NCEE): Urban Earthquake Risk

Citation

(2003), "Seventh US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (7NCEE): Urban Earthquake Risk", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 12 No. 4, pp. 341-341. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2003.12.4.341.8

To purchase the proceedings, contact the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), 499 14th Street, Suite 320, Oakland, CA 94612‐1934. Tel: (510) 451‐0905. Fax: (510) 451‐5411; Web site: www.eeri.org/

This book/CD‐ROM set contains the proceedings of a meeting held in Boston, Massachusetts, in July 2002 to examine the risk of earthquakes in urban areas. Urban infrastructure in North America has evolved into a closely integrated and highly sophisticated network of living spaces and lifelines. As demonstrated by recent quakes, as well as the World Trade Center attack, damage or disruption can result in losses far beyond what was once believed possible. This conference provided an opportunity to assess understanding of urban earthquake risk and how effectively to prepare for and abate it. Further, with the current national focus on homeland security, it also provided an opportunity to examine whether the measures to protect against natural hazards should be a part of a multihazard protection strategy that would comprehensively include natural and technological hazards. The proceedings contains papers on seismic awareness and education, seismic design and retrofit, loss estimation, insurance issues, lifelines and mitigation, nonstructural components, multihazard approaches, earthquake response and recovery, seismic building codes, land use and urban planning, business impacts, housing, and finance. The CD‐ROM contains the full text of the final program, the full proceedings, and a comprehensive authors’ index.

(The above reviews have been extracted from the Natural Hazards Observer, May 2003.)