- Author
- Wright, R. N.
- Title
- Lessons From the Loma Prieta Earthquake.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- PWRI No. 3217; Technical Memorandom,
- Book or Conf
- U.S./Japan Natural Resources Development Program (UJNR). Wind and Seismic Effects. Joint Meeting of the U.S./Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects, 25th. Technical Memorandom of PWRI No. 3217. May 17-20, 1993, Tsukuba, Japan, 769-786 p., 1993
- Keywords
- earthquakes | buildings | earthquake engineering | earthquake hazard reduction | geotechnical engineering | lifelines | public policy | seismology | structural engineering | seismic design
- Identifiers
- Loma Prieta earthquake, San Francisco, California, October 17, 1989
- Abstract
- The Loma Prieta, California earthquake (LPE) of October 17, 1989, has had profound influence on both policies and practices for earthquake hazards reduction in the United States. Special Federal funds were allocated for studies to learn from the earthquake how to improve policies and practices for earthquake hazards reduction. The President issued an Executive Order requiring Federal agencies to apply appropriate seismic design and construction practices for new Federal buildings and new Federally-assisted or regulated buildings. The order also provided impetus for improvement of the State and local government building codes that govern non-Federal construction. Major changes were made in the legislation governing the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP); research, development and technology transfer activities in NEHRP responded to the legislation. Thus, this paper describes lessons in public policy as well as those in earth, engineering and social sciences and practices resulting from the earthquake.