USGS Response to an Urban Earthquake: Northridge '94

Open-File Report 96-263

• Preface
• Document Preparation Information
• Summary
• A Direct Hit on a Modern American City
• USGS Roles and Actions in the Response
• The Earthquake's Setting and Impacts
• Evaluating Ground Response
• Ground Failures and Landslides
• Investigating Building and Freeway Damages
• Updating Seismic Hazards Assessments
• Facilitating Communications
• Creating Policies and Plans for Seismic

Introduction

• The Earthquake and its Impacts
• The Early Response -- Collecting Information and Organizing Communications
• The Long-Term Response -- New Experience with an Urban Earthquake
• The Tasks of the NEHRP Agencies

Assisting Recovery,Reconstruction, and Migration