The Committee on Natural Disasters

国家研究理事会自然灾害委员会的设立是为了随时准备进行灾后勘察研究，并记录对研究人员、规划者、设计者、从业人员和建筑官员以及应急准备官员有价值的易腐烂信息，以用于减轻未来的自然灾害。委员会将继续这项工作，并鼓励今后进行规划，包括举办会议、研讨会或专题讨论会，以便(A)落实快速反应小组的建议，(B)提高我们应对未来自然灾害的能力。

The National Research Council's Committee on Natural Disasters was established to maintain readiness for conducting postdisaster reconnaissance studies and documenting perishable information valuable to researchers, planners, designer, practitioners, and building officials, as well as to emergency preparedness officials, for their use in mitigating future natural disasters. The committee will continue this work as well as encourage future planning, including the conduct of meetings, seminars, or symposia in the interests of (a) implementing recommendations of the quick-response teams, and (b) improving our ability to cope with future natural disasters.