Web Directory

» 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
   Images from the 1907 U.S. Geological Survey report.
   http://americahurrah.com/USGS/Intro.htm

» ABAG Data on Earthquakes and Housing
   Videos and other information on typical building damage.
   http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/eqhouse.html

» Applied Technology Council (ATC)
   Information on engineering applications to mitigate the effects of natural and other hazards on the built environment.
   http://www.atcouncil.org/

» Architectural Surety Projects
   Sandia National Laboratories program to make buildings more resistant to earthquakes and other natural and man-made insults.
   http://www.sandia.gov/archsur/

» CUREE
   Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering.
   http://www.curee.org/

» California Earthquake Authority (CEA)
   The site of California Department of Insurance provides information on earthquake coverage.
   http://www.earthquakeauthority.com/

» California Seismic Safety Commission (CSSC)
   Information on seismic risk mitigation and data on economic impact of events.
   http://www.seismic.ca.gov/

» Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup (CREW)
   A not-for-profit corporation of private and public representatives of Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and California communities informs on its activities to reduce the effects of earthquake events.
   http://crew.org/

» Center for Earthquake Research and Information (ERI)
   Research center at the University of Memphis is focusing on the earthquake activities and campus vulnerability studies.
   http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/

» Damage of Steel Piers at Kobe Earthquake (Japan)
   Information about damage of steel piers by focusing on column and beam members with variable cross-sections.
   http://www.daido-it.ac.jp/~doboku/miki/kobe1.html

» Earthquake Country Handbook (SCEC)
   Electronic version of the "Putting Down Roots in Earthquake Country" handbook released to Southern Californians in October of 1995.
   http://www.earthquakecountry.info/roots/

» Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA)
   A database of 100,000 records covering the world literature in earthquake engineering since 1971, searchable by author, title, keyword, and date. Produced by the National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE).
   http://nisee.berkeley.edu/eea.html

» Earthquake Engineering Projects Summaries (NIST)
   Information from the Building and Fire Research Laboratory of NIST.
   http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/

» Earthquake Engineering Research Center - EERC
   Conducts research and public service programs aimed at protecting the public and its property from the destructive effects of earthquakes. Includes online searcheable library. University of California, Berkeley.
   http://eerc.berkeley.edu/

» Earthquake Engineering Research Centre (EERC)
   Research, teaching and commercial activities at the University of Bristol (UK).
   http://www.bristol.ac.uk/eerc/

» Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
   Activities of the national society of engineers, geoscientists, architects, planners, public officials, and social scientists related to earthquake exposure, risk and protection of lifelines and building structures.
   http://www.eeri.org/

» Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (UT Austin)
   University of Texas, Austin provides links to Student Chapters of EERI.
   http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sald/studentorgs/vieworgs.php?org=1473

» Earthquake Engineering Technology of New Zealand
   Information and services available through the New Zealand Earthquake Engineering Technology Business Cluster.
   http://www.earthquakeengineering.com/

» Earthquake Engineering and Geosciences Division, Army Corps of Engineers
   Information on the ability of the Army to perform earthquake engineering and geosciences research.
   http://geoscience.wes.army.mil/

» Earthquake Engineering and other Research Projects
   California State University, Northridge research projects in the area of earthquake, wind and terrorist blast protection.
   http://www.ecs.csun.edu/~shustov/CME_research.htm

» Earthquake Research Institute (Japan)
   Links to Divisions and Research Centers of the Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo.
   http://www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

» Earthquake Resistance Committee (Japan)
   Japan Society of Civil Engineers Special Task Committee of Earthquake Resistance of Civil Engineering Structures' activities information.
   http://www.jsce.or.jp/committee/earth/index-e.html

» Earthquake and Housing Impacts for Bay Area
   Seismic analysis of the extensive Bay Area housing stock including buildings that are broadly classified according to their basic characteristics.
   http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/shelpop/bldg.html

» EqTAP Digital City Tool Box
   Multi-lateral research project. Features objectives, research, participants, publications, and case studies.
   http://eqtap.edm.bosai.go.jp/

» Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 (Japan)
   Special report.
   http://www.kajima.co.jp/tech/hanshin_earthquake/index.html

» Hot Topics in Earthquake, Wind and Blast Protection Engineering
   The site contains research papers which are developed at CSUN and presented in a brief and visual format.
   http://www.ecs.csun.edu/~shustov/Hot_Topics.htm

» Indian Institute of Technology: Department of Earthquake Engineering
   The department is engaged in research and development in the fields of structural and soil dynamics, seismology, seismotectonics and instrumentation.
   http://www.iitr.ac.in/departments/EQ/pages/

» International Association for Earthquake Engineering (IAEE)
   Links and publications in the field of earthquake engineering for interchange of knowledge, ideas, results of research and practical experience.
   http://www.iaee.or.jp/

» John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center (Stanford University)
   News and reports on the advancement of research, education and practice.
   http://blume.stanford.edu/

» Linbeck Distinguished Lecture Series in Earthquake Engineering
   Online broadcast and archived lectures.
   http://www.nd.edu/~linbeck/

» MAST Laboratory, University of Minnesota
   Earthquake simulation research laboratory specializing in testing the durability of large-scale structural components. A participant in the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES).
   http://nees.umn.edu/

» Middle East Seismological Forum - MESF
   Non-profit scientific forum that provides a source for authoritative earthquake information on the middle eastern region’s seismicity, seismologists and ongoing scientific activities .
   http://www.meseisforum.net

» Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)
   Description of activities focusing on reduction of earthquake damage and losses through research, development and application of new knowledge and advanced technologies.
   http://mceer.buffalo.edu/

» NEES@Buffalo
   University at Buffalo's Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory, a key node in the National Science Foundation's "George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation" (NEES).
   http://nees.buffalo.edu

» NZSEE Home page
   The New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering electronic newsletter and other information.
   http://www.nzsee.org.nz/

» National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE)
   Information resources, including an online bibliographic database, slides and photographs, selected papers, related websites, software and data.
   http://nisee.berkeley.edu/

» National Strong-Motion Program (NSMP)
   Information and data for significant siesmic events from the U.S. Geological Survey
   http://agram.wr.usgs.gov/

» Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
   Headlines of a major earthquake engineering research equipment project of the National Science Foundation.
   http://www.eng.nsf.gov/nees/

» Niscally Earthquake, Feb. 28, 2001
   Seattle television news presentation from the day of the earthquake. Shows effects of shaking.
   http://www.kirotv.com/video/3012994

» Out-of-Plane Seismic Resistance of Masonry Walls
   Online publication at WorldSciNet.
   http://ejournals.wspc.com.sg/jee/05/0502/S1363246901000340.html

» PEER Strong Motion Database
   Relational database providing information about and access to strong motion recordings. Available in both java and text versions.
   http://peer.berkeley.edu/smcat/

» PEER: Tall Buildings Initiative
   Project aimed at developing design criteria that will ensure safe and usable tall buildings following future earthquakes.
   http://peer.berkeley.edu/tbi/

» Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center
   Research center's activities focusing on earthquake issues for the U.S. West Coast.
   http://peer.berkeley.edu/

» Portland State University: infraStructure Testing and Applied Research (iSTAR) Lab
   Offers a wide range of seismic, structural, and vibration evaluations utilizing one of the largest shake tables in the Northwest as well as other analytical techniques like finite element analysis.
   http://www.istar.cee.pdx.edu/

» Progress and Challenges in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering
   Linbeck Distinguished Lecture Series online.
   http://www.nd.edu/~linbeck/krawinkler.htm

» Public Roads On-Line (Summer 1994)
   The Northridge Earthquake: Lessons learned and progress made in seismic-resistant bridge design.
   http://www.tfhrc.gov/pubrds/summer94/p94su26.htm

» Seismic Design Review
   Offer courses for the special civil/seismic principles portion of California Civil Professional Engineers examination. Includes course schedule, and instructor details.
   http://www.seismicreview.com/

» Seismic Design and Construction
   AISC information on the design and construction of fabricated structural steel buildings.
   http://www.engr.psu.edu/ae/steelstuff/seismic.htm#top

» Seismic Resistance Experiment Center (Japan)
   Aichi Institute of Technology presentation.
   http://www.aitech.ac.jp/seirex/

» Seismo-Watch - EQNews
   All earthquake news, all the time. Nothing else.
   http://www.seismo-watch.com/EQNEWS/EQNEWS.html

» Shake Table
   Information on how to build a shake table to test the resistance of structures to earthquake shaking.
   http://www.jclahr.com/science/earth_science/shake/index.html

» ShakeZone for Kids
   Classroom exercises and video footage of earthquake damage and shake table testing of building models.
   http://www.ecs.csun.edu/~shustov/ShakeZone.htm

» Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)
   Participants in research on earthquake hazards from nine institutions transfer earthquake information to the public.
   http://www.scec.org/

» Statistical Ground Motion Models
   This site provides information and software useful to generate a large number of earthquake ground motions representative of a particular hazard level for a few particular geophysical areas of the United States.
   http://www.duke.edu/%7ehpgavin/groundmotions/

» Structural Dynamics Laboratory - Kyoto University
   Research unit specializing in the issues associated with the seismic design of civil engineering structures. Includes staff details and research topics.
   http://eqgate.kuciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.html

» Structural Engineering Earthquake Simulation Laboratory
   Includes a 12 X12 foot seismic shaking table simulator, and an 18" thick concrete "strong floor" which covers an overall area of 3400 square feet. Offers material testing equipment for both static and dynamic loading systems; a structural models laborator
   http://civil.eng.buffalo.edu/seesl/computing.html

» Structural Systems and Engineering (SSE)
   Information on National Science Foundation research program to support development of new design concepts and technologies for improving the behavior of structural systems subject to natural hazards.
   http://www.eng.nsf.gov/cms/sse.htm

» The Australian Earthquake Engineering Society (AEES)
   A technical society of the Australian Institution of Engineers presents its earthquake related activities.
   http://www.aees.org.au/

» The George Housner Earthquake Engineering Collection
   Supports research in the field of structural engineering related to earthquakes, especially the construction of buildings and infrastructure to withstand earthquakes. Lab reports available to all for download and links to related databases.
   http://library.caltech.edu/collections/earthquake.htm

» UALR Arkansas Earthquake Center
   Information concerning earthquakes, related campus research, design and preparedness.
   http://quake.ualr.edu/

» USC Strong Motion Research Group
   Research on earthquake response of man-made structures, aiming to improve seismic design procedures and to reduce earthquake risks. Located at the University of Southern California.
   http://www.usc.edu/dept/civil_eng/Earthquake_eng/

» USGS - National Seismic Hazard Mapping Project
   Access to probabilistic ground motion hazard maps, faults with slip rates and building code maps.
   http://eqhazmaps.usgs.gov/

» Visual Seismic Analysis animated samples
   Holmes Consulting Group presentation.
   http://www.holmesgroup.com/animation.html

» World Housing Encyclopedia
   Web-based encyclopedia of housing construction types in seismically-prone areas of the world.
   http://world-housing.net/