During the period January to September 2015, a joint committee of United States Geological Survey (USGS) representatives and Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC) volunt [...]

Since their inception nearly 20 years ago, the so-called Maximum Considered Earthquake ground motion maps in building codes of the United States of America (USA) have rep [...]

An increasing number of studies indicate that the elevated earthquake rates in the Central and Eastern United States are induced by fluid injection associated with the oi [...]

A methodology was recently proposed for the development of hazard-compatible building fragility models using parameters of capacity curves and damage state thresholds fro [...]

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Southeast Asia Seismic Hazard Project originated in response to the 26 December 2004 Sumatra earthquake (M9.2) and the resulting tsunami [...]

We present a methodology for transforming the structural and non-structural fragility functions in HAZUS into a format that is compatible with conventional seismic hazard [...]

Seismic assessments of a sample conventional and base-isolated nuclear power plant (NPP) are performed using a new procedure that builds on the methodology presented in t [...]