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Multidisciplinary Center
for Earthquake Engineering Research
A broadbased web site for earthquake engineering providing data
and information covering research topics, publications, education,
conferences, partnerships, etc.
Applied Technology Council
(ATC)
Advancing engineering applications for natural hazard mitigation
National Information
Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE)
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the University
of California, Berkeley
Building Seismic Safety
Council (BSSC)
Established by the National Institute of Building Sciences, BSSC
develops and promotes building earthquake risk mitigation regulatory
provisions for the nation
National Strong Motion Program
This program has primary Federal responsibility for recording each
damaging earthquake in the United States. It maintains a national
cooperative instrumentation network, a national data center, and
a data analyses and research center.
The Los Angeles Dam
Story
Anatomy of a near-disaster, and the successful performance of the
replacement dam in a subsequent earthquake
Building Safer
Structures
Summary of the locations of strong earthquakes in the US, and the
ongoing effort to monitor and record strong shaking in various types
of structures during earthquakes
NIBS: National Institute of Building
Sciences
Saving
Lives Through Better Design Standards
How studies of strong ground shaking in earthquakes enable engineers
to improve design standards so that structures are better able to
survive strong earthquakes
Pay a Little Now, or
a Lot Later
How local governments, utilities and industry have responded to
the earthquake threat in the San Francisco Bay Region
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