Download or read book The Northridge Earthquake written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Northridge Earthquake Extent of Damage and Federal Response written by United States Congress and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-25 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Northridge Earthquake; Extent of Damage and Federal Response: Hearing Before the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session A major earthquake, measuring on the Richter scale, struck the heavily populated suburban area of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley at Northridge, California, at am, pst on January 17, 1994. The fault was unknown before the quake. The earthquake had a lateral thrust up on two converging plates. This resulted in a sudden and strong vertical acceleration that caused damage that was considerably more severe than other comparable earthquakes or even the Loma Prieta earthquake in Northern California in 1989. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Northridge Earthquake written by United States Congress House Committe and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Download or read book The Northridge Earthquake written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Six Months After the Northridge Earthquake written by United States. Office of Management and Budget and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Northridge Earthquake written by Robert Bolin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a global view of the social effects of disaster in developed and developing countries. It focuses on the 1994 Northridge Earthquake in the US and other recent disasters to examine vulnerability and post-disaster recovery strategies. The authors also explore the ways state policy can reduce vulnerability in the future.

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Download or read book The Northridge Earthquake written by Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. Conference and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings from a 1996 conference held in Pasadena, California, supported financially by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, directed toward decision makers in the built environment, focused on the Northridge earthquake as an economic event, reviewing the losses by public and private sector, the level of financial assistance, resources for recovery, and the availability of federal and private insurance funds. The proceedings include four commissioned papers, a banquet presentation, and abstracts of panelists' presentations.

Download or read book The Impacts of Natural Disasters written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-05-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We in the United States have almost come to accept natural disasters as part of our nation's social fabric. News of property damage, economic and social disruption, and injuries follow earthquakes, fires, floods and hurricanes. Surprisingly, however, the total losses that follow these natural disasters are not consistently calculated. We have no formal system in either the public or private sector for compiling this information. The National Academies recommends what types of data should be assembled and tracked.

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Download or read book The Government s Response to the Northridge Earthquake written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assessment of Damage to Residential Buildings Caused by the Northridge Earthquake written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Improved Seismic Monitoring Improved Decision Making written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-01-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improved Seismic Monitoringâ€"Improved Decision-Making, describes and assesses the varied economic benefits potentially derived from modernizing and expanding seismic monitoring activities in the United States. These benefits include more effective loss avoidance regulations and strategies, improved understanding of earthquake processes, better engineering design, more effective hazard mitigation strategies, and improved emergency response and recovery. The economic principles that must be applied to determine potential benefits are reviewed and the report concludes that although there is insufficient information available at present to fully quantify all the potential benefits, the annual dollar costs for improved seismic monitoring are in the tens of millions and the potential annual dollar benefits are in the hundreds of millions.

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