Announcement of SSA special session
Date: 11/05/2007
Special Session Announcement: Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, 16-18 April, 2008
Earthquakes and Society: Developing Community Resiliency through Earthquake Scenarios
The occurrence of a major earthquake in or near a major metropolitan area has the potential to damage critical facilities and lifelines and cause substantial long-term disruption to regional and even national economies. Understanding the potential damage and associated interdependencies is important for emergency response planning and developing cost effective disaster mitigation efforts. These investigations incorporate a broad range in technical expertise and this session is an opportunity to communicate the investigations underway for Southern California and other major metropolitan areas.
We invite papers dealing with one or more of the following aspects:
(1) deterministic and probabilistic strategies for developing earthquake ground motion and fault rupture predictions affecting metropolitan areas such as Southern California;
(2) development of fragility models for critical facilities having possible multiple failure modes;
(3) integration of ground motion and it's uncertainty with uncertain fragility models;
(4) developing predictive tools to model the interdependencies or potential cascading affects of critical facility failure;
(5) sociologic, economic and public health models of disaster consequences and interdependencies and planning and mitigation issues for critical facilities and regional governments.
Conveners:
Chris Bradley
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
cbradley@lanl.gov
Lucy Jones
US Geological Survey, Pasadena, CA
jones@usgs.gov
Richard Lee
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
rclee@lanl.gov
