National Earthquake Resilience: Research, Implementation, and Outreach
2011

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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.

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278 pages · 6 x 9 · paperback
ISBN Paperback: 0-309-18677-3
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-18678-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/13092

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National Research Council. 2011. National Earthquake Resilience: Research, Implementation, and Outreach. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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Front Matter i-xiv
Summary 1-8
1 Introduction 9-26
2 What Is National Earthquake Resilience? 27-50
3 Elements of the Roadmap 51-170
4 Costing the Roadmap Elements 171-182
5 Conclusions - Achieving Earthquake Resilience 183-190
References 191-202
Appendixes 203-204
Appendix A: Summary of 2008 NEHRP Strategic Plan 205-208
Appendix B: Summary of 2003 EERI Report 209-212
Appendix C: Committee and Staff Biographies 213-222
Appendix D: Community Workshop Attendees and Presentations to Committee 223-230
Appendix E: Additional Cost Information 231-260
Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations 261-264

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