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，主题是城市地震灾害减少规划。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）一起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（2USJW）将在下一届世界会议（9WCEE， 1988年8月2日至9日）之前在静冈举行，将侧重于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进行审查：地震预测的政策问题公共和私人准备地震灾害易损性评估/估计地震后的火灾/危险物质搜索和救援/紧急反应恢复/修复/重建/康复 7所示。政府对地震问题的反应该格式将包括关于关键主题的邀请论文，工作组讨论和最后全体会议，总结工作组的调查结果。讲习班的会议记录将由日本的共同赞助者编写，并分发给与会者和外地的其他人。

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.