National Earthquake Resilience : Research, Implementation, and Outreach Paperback / softback
by National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics, Implementation, and Outreach Committee on National Earthquake Resilience?Research
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The United States will certainly be subject to damaging earthquakes in the future.
Some of these earthquakes will occur in highly populated and vulnerable areas.
Coping with moderate earthquakes is not a reliable indicator of preparedness for a major earthquake in a populated area.
The recent, disastrous, magnitude-9 earthquake that struck northern Japan demonstrates the threat that earthquakes pose.
Moreover, the cascading nature of impacts-the earthquake causing a tsunami, cutting electrical power supplies, and stopping the pumps needed to cool nuclear reactors-demonstrates the potential complexity of an earthquake disaster.
Such compound disasters can strike any earthquake-prone populated area.
National Earthquake Resilience presents a roadmap for increasing our national resilience to earthquakes. The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) is the multi-agency program mandated by Congress to undertake activities to reduce the effects of future earthquakes in the United States.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-the lead NEHRP agency-commissioned the National Research Council (NRC) to develop a roadmap for earthquake hazard and risk reduction in the United States that would be based on the goals and objectives for achieving national earthquake resilience described in the 2008 NEHRP Strategic Plan.
National Earthquake Resilience does this by assessing the activities and costs that would be required for the nation to achieve earthquake resilience in 20 years. National Earthquake Resilience interprets resilience broadly to incorporate engineering/science (physical), social/economic (behavioral), and institutional (governing) dimensions.
Resilience encompasses both pre-disaster preparedness activities and post-disaster response.
In combination, these will enhance the robustness of communities in all earthquake-vulnerable regions of our nation so that they can function adequately following damaging earthquakes.
While National Earthquake Resilience is written primarily for the NEHRP, it also speaks to a broader audience of policy makers, earth scientists, and emergency managers. Table of ContentsFront MatterSummary1 Introduction2 What Is National Earthquake Resilience?3 Elements of the Roadmap4 Costing the Roadmap Elements5 Conclusions - Achieving Earthquake ResilienceReferencesAppendixesAppendix A: Summary of 2008 NEHRP Strategic PlanAppendix B: Summary of 2003 EERI ReportAppendix C: Committee and Staff BiographiesAppendix D: Community Workshop Attendees and Presentations toCommitteeAppendix E: Additional Cost InformationAppendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations
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