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The United States will certainly be subject to damaging earthquakes in the future. Some of these earthquakes will occur in highly populated and vulnerable areas
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings
Language: en
Pages: 436
Authors: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: ASCE Publications

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Standard ASCE/SEI 41-06 presents the latest generation of performance-based seismic rehabilitation methodology.
Building Community Disaster Resilience Through Private-Public Collaboration
Language: en
Pages: 142
Authors: National Research Council
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-17 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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