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Welcome to Landtech Consultants' Earthquake Page, a clearinghouse of information about earthquakes and seismic issues. The goal of this page is to be a resource, not only for people interested in earthquakes as natural disasters, but also for building owners, architects, engineers, and real estate managers who want to keep up to date on seismic regulations, codes, and earthquake-related news.
Local/State Earthquake Sites
http://quake.abag.ca.gov/ - Association of Bay Area Governments Earthquake Page
http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/esc/tollbridge/default.html - Caltrans Retrofit Program
http://www.seismic.ca.gov/ - California Seismic Safety Commission
http://www.seaoc.org/Pages/earthquake.html - Structural Engineers Association of California Earthquake Reports
http://www.sfgate.com/earthquakes/ - San Francisco Chronicles' Earthquake Site
www.eeri.org - Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
www.trinet.org - TriNet: The Seismic System for Southern California
University Earthquake Sites
http://www.seismo.berkeley.edu/seismo/ - UC-Berkeley Seismological Laboratory
http://nisee.berkeley.edu/ - UC-Berkeley's National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering
http://quake.geo.berkeley.edu/ - UC-Berkeley/USGS Northern California Earthquake Information Center
http://www.eas.slu.edu/Earthquake_Center/ - St. Louis (Missouri) University's Earthquake Center
http://mceer.buffalo.edu/ - The Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research at SUNY-Buffalo
National/International Earthquake Sites
http://www.earthquake.com/ -The Global Earthquake Response Center
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ - US Geological Survey Earthquake Page
http://www.neic.cr.usgs.gov/ - National Earthquake Information Center
http://www.fema.gov/fema/fact01.html - FEMA Earthquake Fact Sheet
http://www.seaoc.org/Pages/earthquake.html - Structural Engineers Association of California Earthquake Reports
http://www2.worldbook.com/students/feature_index.asp#disasters - Worldbook's "Terrible Power of Earthquakes" site
Articles and Updates
Earth: All Stressed Out
(From the PBS Series: "Savage Earth")
by Daniel Pendick
To experience the drama of plate tectonics the jostling of the giant plates that carry continents and oceans try this experiment: Sit in a comfortable chair, hold your hand out, and watch your fingernails grow. That's about the average speed of a tectonic plate. But wait around long enough, and even the tortoise crawl of plate tectonics will have dramatic and deadly consequences. Though plate tectonics is a global phenomenon and virtually invisible to us in our daily lives, it introduces enormous stresses in the crust where we live. From time to time, stressed-out crust releases the stress in sudden fits: earthquakes.
Read the full article: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/earthquakes/index.html
There is significant pressure from state officials for San Francisco to upgrade its public buildings and utilities in preparation of a major earthquake. In response, the San Francisco Public Utilities is floating a $3.6 billion dollar revenue bond to improve the city's and Peninsula's Hetch Hetchy water delivery system.
Read the whole story from the June 17 issue of the San Francisco Business Times
http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2002/06/17/editoria l3.html
The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
The terrifying rumble of an earthquake shattered the early morning silence of April 18 at 5:15 AM. The quake lasted only a minute but caused the worst natural disaster in the nation's history. Modern analysis estimates it registered 8.25 on the Richter scale (By comparison, the quake that hit San Francisco on October 17, 1989 registered 6.7).
Read about it...http://www.ibiscom.com/sfeq.htm
