Armenia Earthquake Research

该奖项是为了表彰美国研究团队在1988年12月7日发生灾难性地震后开始在亚美尼亚进行实地工作的工作。多学科美国团队的工作强调了以下几个方面：-地表断层破裂的测绘，-部署一系列仪器监测地震活动并记录余震序列产生的强烈地面震动，-检查受损和倒塌的建筑物并获取图纸以供进一步分析，-检查主震和大余震的地震仪和加速仪记录，-参观埃里温附近的核电站，-绘制山体滑坡和液化地图，-检查生命线的性能，以及-确定紧急响应和恢复环境中的人类和社会行为。这项研究工作应该为美国和苏联的地震减灾工作提供重要的经验教训。

This award is for support of the work of the U.S. research team that commenced field work in Armenia following the catastrophic earthquake that struck on December 7, 1988. The work of the multidisciplinary U.S. team has emphasized the following areas: - mapping of surface fault rupture, - deploying arrays of instruments to monitor seismicity and to record strong ground shaking from the aftershock sequence, - examining damaged and collapsed buildings and acquiring drawing for further analysis, - inspecting seismoscope and accelerograph records of the main shock, and large aftershocks, - visiting the nuclear power plant near Yerevan, - mapping landslides and liquefaction, - examining the performance of lifelines, and - determining human and societal behavior in the emergency response and recovery environments. This research effort should provide important lessons for earthquake hazard mitigation in the U.S. as well as the U.S.S.R.