Title National earthquake resilience : research, implementation, and outreach / Committee on National Earthquake Resilience-Research, Implementation, and Outreach, Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies

Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- What Is National Earthquake Resilience? -- Elements of the Roadmap -- Costing the Roadmap Elements -- Conclusions -- Achieving Earthquake Resilience -- References -- Appendixes -- Summary of 2008 NEHRP Strategic Plan -- Summary of 2003 EERI Report -- Committee and Staff Biographies -- Community Workshop Attendees and Presentations to Committee -- Additional Cost Information -- Acronyms and Abbreviations Summary "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."--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-202) Notes English Print version record Subject National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (U.S.) SUBJECT National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (U.S.) fast Subject Earthquakes. Seismology. Earthquake damage. Tsunami damage. Disasters. Emergency management. Earthquakes Disasters Disaster Planning earthquakes. disasters. disaster planning. NATURE -- Earthquakes & Volcanoes. SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Seismology & Volcanism. Emergency management Disasters Earthquake damage Earthquakes Seismology Tsunami damage SUBJECT United States Form Electronic book Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics. National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Earth Sciences and Resources LC no. 2011933648 ISBN 9780309186780 0309186781 1283253453 9781283253451 9786613253453 6613253456 0309225035 9780309225038

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