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Concrete in Phoenix, AZ in October, 2014 13 Aug 2013 | 10:39 pm
Two sessions planned for the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Fall Convention in Phoenix, AZ (October 20-24, 2014) on Performance-Based Seismic Design: Lessons Learned from Recent Earthquakes – Part ...
Reliability and Optimization Meeting Proceedings 8 Aug 2013 | 12:47 am
The NISEE library recently received a paper copy of “Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems,” [editors Armen Der Kiureghian and Aram Hajian. Yerevan, Armenia ; AUA Press, 2012]. The text c...
Three images of structural damage in past earthquakes from Turkey, Guatemala, and Japan 1 Aug 2013 | 03:17 am
In the summer months this year, NISEE processed some older, donated files of reports and photographs from storage into our public collections. Among the documents and slides, three images from the wor...
Two Recent Text Books – 18 Jul 2013 | 03:51 am
These two, fairly-recently published, text books [Structural Dynamics ; Tsunamis] arrived at the NISEE library in Berkeley this summer and drew our attention. Basic Structural Dynamics by James C. An...
The Nation’s “Infrastructure” 17 Jul 2013 | 12:23 am
Every four years, an ASCE Committee of civil engineers provides a comprehensive assessment of the conditions and needs of the nation’s current major infrastructure – aviation, bridges, dams, drinking ...
NGA-West2 : Strong Ground Motion Attenuation for Shallow Crustal Earthquakes – Western USA 24 Jun 2013 | 10:36 pm
In late May, 2013, PEER’s NGA-West2 project, the second and final phase of the Next Generation Attenuation relationships for shallow crustal earthquakes in active tectonic regions (Western U.S.A.), re...
Natural Disasters in 2012 16 Jun 2013 | 11:13 pm
A U.S. federal agency, NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), recently released the 2012 Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Information Report, indicating that the cost of damages acro...
1964 – Prince William Sound (Anchorage) Alaska earthquake 13 Jun 2013 | 01:20 am
On March 27, 1964, at 5:36 p.m. in the Prince William Sound region of Alaska, a great earthquake (Mw=9.2 USGS) occurred on a thrust fault, a subduction zone, where the Pacific plate plunges underneath...
Defining Earthquake Resilience – A View from the US National Academy of Sciences 11 Jun 2013 | 03:02 am
National Earthquake Resilience : Research, Implementation, and Outreach (National Academy of Sciences, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, 2011) interprets earthquake resilience broadly to incorpor...
Caribbean Anniversary – Port Royal, Jamaica (June 7, 1692) 7 Jun 2013 | 04:45 am
The 2010 Haiti earthquake catastrophe might suggest that because hurricanes represent an annual hazard to most Caribbean nations, the return period for severe earthquakes in the Caribbean region is to...
