Proceedings of the second US-Asia conference on engineering for mitigating natural hazards damage, Yogyakarta, 22-26 June 1992.

The second U.S.-Asia Conference on Engineering for Mitigating Natural Hazards Damage (EMNHD-2) was held at Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 22-26 June 1992. The primary purpose of this conference was to bring together American and Asian researchers, practitioners and public officials who are involved in seeking ways to mitigate damage caused by natural hazards. This conference, in support of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, was a sequel to the first EMNHD meeting which was held at Bangkok, Thailand, 14-18 December 1987. Participants were from the U.S.A., Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, China (Taipei), Japan, Republic of Korea, Philippines, Bangladesh, Nepal, and India. Papers were limited to: earthquakes; floods; ground failures; volcanoes; and extreme winds. The technical papers were bound as the Proceedings of the Second U.S.-Asia Conference on Engineering for Mitigating Natural Hazards Damage. A field trip to the Merapi Volcano Observatory Office and the Volcanic Sabo Technical Center (VSTC) was included in the conference program. A workshop followed the technical presentations, to delineate possible projects for mitigating damage from these five natural hazards. The Final Report contains the recommended projects and resolutions