Crude Oil Transmission Study An Assessment of the Social, Economic and Environmental Impacts Resulting from Oil Spillage and Disruption Caused by a Major Earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Zone

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  • Ronald Eguchi
  • Masanobu Shinozuka
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Journal in Earthquake Engineering The 1994 volume (Volume 24) of the Abstract Journal in Eartb-quake Engineering provides comprehensive access to 1994 worldliterature in earthquake engineering and hazards mitigation. Thevolume contains 2,400 abstracts from technical journals, researchreports, books, monographs and other publications of academic,professional and governmental organizations in 24 countries. Toorder, contact the National Information Service for Earthquake En-gineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University ofCalifornia at Berkeley, 1301 South 46th Street, Richmond, CA94804-4698;phone:(510)231-9554;fax:(510)231-9461;oremail:[email protected]. Proceedings of the Third International Con-ference on Recent Advances in GeotechnicalEarthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics The three volume Proceedings of the Third International Con-ference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake En-gineering and Soil Dynamics, edited by Shamsher Prakash, havebeen published. The conference was held April 2-7, 1995 in St.Louis, Missouri and the proceedings can be ordered from Univer-sity of Missouri-Rolla Continuing Education, 103 ME Annex, Rolla,MO 65401-0249; phone: (314) 341-4200; fax: (314) 341-4992.The cost is $400 for the three volume set.Proceedings of the NSF Natural HazardsMitigation Grantees Workshop The Proceedings from the National Science Foundation Natu-ral Hazards Mitigation Grantees Workshop have been published.The workshop was held April 27-281995 in Lake Tahoe, Nevadato facilitate the timely exchange of information among researcherswhose projects are funded by the Natural Hazard Mitigation pro-grams at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Five NSF pro-grams, four within the Earthquake Hazard Mitigation (EHM) pro-gram, and the fifth on Natural and Technological Hazard Mitiga-tion were represented at the workshop. The EHM programs were:Architectural and Mechanical Systems, Earthquake Systems Inte-gration, Siting and Geotechnical Systems, and Structural Systems.Representative researchers from these programs were invited togive a brief presentation about their research. In addition, Dr. Wil-liam Anderson, the Director of the Earthquake Systems Integrationprogram, Dr. James Jirsa, a professor of civil engineering at theUniversity of Texas, Austin, and Dr. George Lee, the Director ofNCEER presented keynote speeches. To obtain a copy of the proceedings, contact Dr. M. Saiidi, CivilEngineering Department/258, University of Nevada, Reno, NV89557; phone: (702) 784-4839; fax: (702) 784-4466; or email:[email protected]:edu. NCEER Bulletin Mailing List Form

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تاریخ انتشار 1998