Proceedings of the U.S.-Japan Earthquake Policy Symposium, 16-18 September 1996.

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Part 1: Joint statement of conclusions and recommendations -- Part 2: Policy issues and recommendations -- Theme 1: Earthquake forecasting, warning, and hazard zonation -- Policy issues of real time systems in the United States -- Probabilistic earthquake forecasting, real-time monitoring and warning systems, and the California gas and electric utility industry -- Real-time provision of earthquake information and tsunami forecast -- Detection of the potential rupture zone of an impending large earthquake by using the tidal modulation of seismicity -- Promotion of earthquake research in Japan -- Seismic hazard zonation mapping at the national scale -- Use of regional seismic hazard zonation in earthquake loss reduction policies -- National and regional seismic zoning map -- Theme 2: Earthquake risk assessment and loss estimation -- Earthquake loss estimation methods, models and GIS -- An earthquake disaster information system: development of DIS/Earthquake by the National Land Agency of Japan -- Near field ground motion in earthquake disaster mitigation plan by local governments -- Disaster situation assessment -- Theme 3: Earthquake resistant design, construction, rehabilitation, and repair standards -- Performance based standards and steel frame buildings -- Arrangement of research bases for earthquake disaster prevention -- Development of performance-based design methods -- Lifelines and control of post earthquake fires -- Seismic assessment, repair, and rehabilitation of existing buildings -- Damage and restoration of the electric facilities in the great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake -- Damage and restoration of gas supply system in the 1995 Hyogo-Ken Nambu earthquake and countermeasures against major earthquakes -- Assessment, repair and rehabilitation of lifelines: highway, sewage pipeline and common utility duct -- Theme 4: Earthquake preparation response, recovery, and mitigation -- Earthquake response -- System for emergency response by the government when a large-scale disaster occurs -- Policy issues for post-disaster mitigation: the need for a process -- Post-disaster measures: reconstructing cities and housing -- Part 3: Symposium speeches