This volume of selected readings and the handbook it accompanies
have been developed to provide participants in the building process
at the local, state, and regional levels with the information they
need to adequately address the potential effects on their
communities of using new or improved seismic safety design
provisions in the development of regulations for new buildings. It
represents one product of an ongoing program conducted by the
Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) for the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA). A brief description of this program is
presented below so that readers of the handbook and these selected
readings can approach their use with a fuller understanding of
their purpose and limitations. In the chapters included in the
handbook: The potential impacts identified by the committee are
described. Information sources and data bases that may be able to
provide communities with general as well as specific information
and guidance are listed. General terms related to earthquakes are
defined and the modified Mercalli intensity (MMI) scale and the
Richter magnitude scale are described. In this accompanying volume
of selected readings, the committee has assembled a series of
papers that address various aspects of the seismic safety issue. A
number of these papers were prepared specifically for the BSSC
study and several were presented at the BSSC committee meetings
with building process participants. Several other papers were
originally presented at a 1984 FEMA workshop but were not
published. Included are: An estimate of the impact of the NEHRP
Recommended Provisions on design and construction costs developed
for the BSSC study; Descriptions of the seismic hazard in various
areas of the United States developed for the BSSC study;
Explanations of seismic safety codes; Descriptions of current
seismic hazard mitigation practices and programs; A description of
recent seismic safety policy research developed for the BSSC study;
A summary of the BSSC committee meetings with building process
participants in Charleston, Memphis, St. Louis, and Seattle; A
relatively extensive set of references.
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