National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program

Highlights

• Keeping the Containers Moving Through U.S. Ports Success Story PDF 1.2MB
  A new approach for assessing and managing seismic risk
• NIST Technical Note 1795 PDF 13MB
  Developing Guidelines and Standards for Disaster Resilience of the Built Environment: A Research Needs Assessment
• Program Plan for the Development of Seismic Design Guidelines for Port Container, Wharf, and Cargo Systems (NIST GCR 12-917-19) PDF 5MB (high resolution print version PDF 12MB)
• EERI Japan and New Zealand NSF RAPID Workshop Final Report
  Presentations, reports from each break-out group, and the final report
• Comparison of U.S. and Chilean Building Code Requirements and Seismic Design Practice 1985-2010 (NIST GCR 12-917-18) PDF 4.5MB
• NEHRP Seismic Design Technical Brief No. 7 (NIST GCR 12-917-22) PDF 2MB
  Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete Mat Foundations
• EERI NEHRP Scenario Project
  A planning tool that helps us understand earthquakes and plan for the future
• Proceedings of the 43rd Joint Meeting of U.S.-Japan Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects
  U.S.-Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources (UJNR) PDF 13MB
• Standards of Seismic Safety for Existing Federally Owned and Leased Buildings (NIST GCR 11-917-12 / ICSSC RP 8) PDF 593KB
• MCEER Publications Catalog
  Summaries, keywords, tables of contents, and order information
• PEER Research Reports 2011
  The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) published 5 new reports!

In this section

• Annual Reports & Plans
• Design & Construction
• Links
• NEHRP Clearinghouse
• Research Needs Reports
• Response & Recovery
• Scientific Data
• Success Stories