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U.S.-Japan Workshop on the Effects of Near-Field Earthquake Shaking, March 20-21, 2000, San Francisco, California

Whittaker, Andrew S.

PEER-2000/02, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2000-07, 130 pages (400/P33/2000-02)

The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center was asked by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture to help organize a workshop in the United States to present the results of a five-year research program the ministry sponsored in Japan following the 1995 Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquake. The research program addressed a wide variety of issues relating to the impact of a near-field earthquake on a major urban center, specifically, public policy, human response, risk assessment and management, response planning and disaster recovery, geotechnical and structural engineering, and engineering seismology. The results of the Japanese research are summarized in the report, entitled "Confronting Urban Earthquakes," Kenzo Toki, ed., 2000. The center was approached because of its work on the effects of near-field earthquake shaking on the built environment. The center hosted a joint U.S.-Japan workshop to present state-of-the-art information from both sides of the Pacific Rim's so-called Ring of Fire to design professionals, regulatory officials, researchers, faculty, and graduate students in the United States. More than 150 people, including 24 participants from Japan, attended the workshop. Nineteen papers were presented. Summary comments from the breakout sessions held on March 21 are included in these proceedings. The Japanese papers presented at the poster session are not included. Information on this work can be found in "Confronting Urban Earthquakes."

Available online: http://peer.berkeley.edu/publications/peer_reports/reports_2000/0002.pdf