Earthquake risk reduction

News and Updates

Integrating Science & Technology with Disaster Response

June 1, 2021

Each year, communities across the United States are devastated by disasters. As the frequency, severity, and cost of many of these disasters continues to

Five Experts Named to Earthquake Advisory Board

March 1, 2021

Five new experts were appointed by Walter Copan, former Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and Director of the National Institute of

The 2020 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures

February 1, 2021

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) coordinated with the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) and the earthquake engineering

Projects and Programs

Collapse Assessment of Buildings under Seismic Loading

NIST recently completed a multi-year study of three structural steel framing systems to evaluate the correlation between ASCE/SEI 7 (ASCE 2010) and ASCE/SEI 41

National seismic hazards maps display earthquake ground motions for various probability levels across the United States.

Earthquake Risk Reduction in Buildings and Infrastructure Program

Over 40 states in the United States are subject to risk from earthquake, facing potential serious loss of life and injury to citizens, damage to the built

Community Resilience Program

Community resilience has emerged as a way to reduce the direct and indirect costs due to natural, technological, and human-caused hazard events. There continues

Quantification of Material, Loading, and Modeling Uncertainties of Reinforced Concrete Column Components and Frame Systems under Seismic and Gravity Loads for Use in PBSE

Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) has provided a probabilistic framework to predict the response of the structural systems by incorporating the

Publications

Seismic Behavior and Design of Deep, Slender Wide-Flange Structural Steel Beam-Columns

July 28, 2021

Author(s)

Piyachai Chansuk, Gulen Ozkula, Chia-Ming Uang, John Harris

Twenty-one W24 hot-rolled columns of ASTM A992 steel with five different sections were tested in Phase 1 of this research program to investigate the effects of

NIST-FEMA Post-Earthquake Functional Recovery Workshop Report

July 15, 2021

Author(s)

Leslie Abrahams, Lisa Van Pay, Siamak Sattar, Katherine Johnson, Steven McCabe

The Total Costs of Seismic Retrofits: State of the Art

May 7, 2021

Author(s)

Juan Fung, David Butry, Siamak Sattar, Steven McCabe

This article presents the current state-of-practice with respect to quantifying the total cost to retrofit an existing building. In particular, we combine

Review of Seismic Risk Mitigation Policies in Earthquake-Prone Countries: Lessons for Earthquake Resilience in the United States

April 25, 2021

Author(s)

Yating Zhang, Juan Fung, Katherine Johnson, Siamak Sattar

This article reviews the current state of practice in seismic risk mitigation, focusing on policies in ten of the most earthquake-prone countries around the