Alternative Title
Paper No. 8.04
Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Date
11 Mar 1998, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Abstract
This paper contains illustrative case histories of the principal "forensic lessons" learned from multidisciplinary postearthquake investigations [United States Geological Survey, 1993] of damaging earthquakes throughout the world. Since 1980, the most notable earthquakes include those that struck Kobe, Japan in 1995, Northridge, California in 1994, Hokkaido-Nansei-Oki, Japan and Khalari, India in 1993, Landers, California and Erzincan, Turkey in 1992, Costa Rica in 1991, the Philippines in 1990, Lorna Prieta, California in 1989, Spitak, Armenia in 1988, Mexico in 1985, and El Asnam, Algeria and Irpinia, Italy in 1980. Individually and collectively, these earthquakes have served as scientific laboratories to show where things went wrong in the planning, siting, design, construction, and use of various types of buildings and lifeline systems founded on soil or rock both close to and far from the causative fault system. They have shown that communities keep on making nine basic mistakes which cause damage to be exacerbated and failure modes to be repeated in earthquake after earthquake.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
4th Conference of the International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1998 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Hays, Walter W., "Case Histories of Damaging Earthquakes" (1998). International Conference on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering. 1.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icchge/4icchge/4icchge-session08/1
Case Histories of Damaging Earthquakes
St. Louis, Missouri
This paper contains illustrative case histories of the principal "forensic lessons" learned from multidisciplinary postearthquake investigations [United States Geological Survey, 1993] of damaging earthquakes throughout the world. Since 1980, the most notable earthquakes include those that struck Kobe, Japan in 1995, Northridge, California in 1994, Hokkaido-Nansei-Oki, Japan and Khalari, India in 1993, Landers, California and Erzincan, Turkey in 1992, Costa Rica in 1991, the Philippines in 1990, Lorna Prieta, California in 1989, Spitak, Armenia in 1988, Mexico in 1985, and El Asnam, Algeria and Irpinia, Italy in 1980. Individually and collectively, these earthquakes have served as scientific laboratories to show where things went wrong in the planning, siting, design, construction, and use of various types of buildings and lifeline systems founded on soil or rock both close to and far from the causative fault system. They have shown that communities keep on making nine basic mistakes which cause damage to be exacerbated and failure modes to be repeated in earthquake after earthquake.
