2nd U. S. - Japan Workshop on Urban Earthquake Hazards Reduction; July 27-29, 1988; Shizuoka, Japan

EERI的地震灾害规划委员会将举办一个为期3天的美日合作研讨会，主题是城市减少地震灾害规划。这将是继1984年8月在斯坦福大学与第八届世界地震工程会议(8WCEE)同时举行的第一次研讨会之后的第二次此类研讨会。第二次讲习班将在静冈举行，就在下一次世界会议(1988年8月2日至9日，第九届世界首脑会议)之前，重点讨论城市规模的地震问题，在美国和日本正在进行的减灾工作的背景下审查：1.地震预报的政策问题2.公共和私人准备3.脆弱性评估/地震损失估计4.地震后的火灾/危险物质5.搜救/紧急反应6.恢复/修复/重建/重建7.政府对地震的反应问题8.保险的形式将包括关于关键主题的受邀论文，工作组讨论和最后一次全体会议，总结工作组的调查结果。日本的共同赞助者将编写讲习班会议记录，并分发给与会者和实地的其他人。

EERI's Committee on Planning for Earthquake Hazards will conduct a cooperative US-Japan 3 day workshop on the subject of planning for urban earthquake hazards reduction. This will be the second such workshop, following a first held at Stanford University in August 1984 in conjunction with the 8th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (8WCEE). This second workshop (2USJW) will be held in Shizuoka, just prior to the next World Conference (9WCEE, 2-9 August 1988), and will focus on problems of earthquakes at the urban scale, examining in the context of mitigation efforts on-going in the US and Japan: 1. Policy Problems of Earthquake Prediction 2. Public and Private Preparedness 3. Vulnerability Assessment/Estimation of Earthquake Damage 4. Fire/HazMat Following Earthquake 5. Search and Rescue/Emergency Response 6. Recovery/Repair/Reconstruction/Rehabilitation 7. Governmental Response to the Earthquake Problem 8. Insurance The format will include invited papers on key topics, working group discussions and a final plenary session for summaries of the working groups' findings. A workshop proceedings will be prepared by the Japanese co-sponsors and disseminated to attendees and others in the field.