U.S.-Mexico Cooperative Research in Microzonation Analysis of Reconstruction Opportunities in Coastal Areas of Mexico

该奖项将使华盛顿州西雅图市城市区域研究中心的Jane Preuss及其同事能够与恩塞纳达市科学研究和高等教育中心的Salvador Farreras和Francisco Suarez以及墨西哥恩塞纳达市海军海洋学研究站的Antonio Sanchez合作，分析1985年墨西哥地震对沿海社区的影响。他们还将分析选定的墨西哥西部沿海社区对地震灾害的脆弱性，并为减少未来地震和其他沿海灾害（如风暴潮和飓风）的脆弱性提出建议。墨西哥地震在一些地区造成了意想不到的破坏，而其他可能的地区则毫发无损。这项研究将试图通过评估地面运动和其他地球物理数据，以及沿海地震和海啸波破坏的结构工程和城市设计组成部分，更清楚地了解地震对沿海社区的危害模式。与灾害有关的地质科学分析将由墨西哥小组进行，该小组具有地质学和物理海洋学方面的专门知识。美国团队在城市规划和减轻自然灾害的结构设计方面具有专业知识，将负责为微分区/城市规划提出建议，并负责重建和长期减灾的设计方面的工作。这两个小组都非常适合合作项目的组成部分。这项研究的结果将对美国和其他沿海社区可能易受此类灾害影响的地方的规划者有用。这些结果将对墨西哥政府在评估将选定的沿海社区作为其重建和权力下放战略的一部分以促进增长的可行性方面具有特别的价值。

This award will enable Jane Preuss and a colleague of Urban Regional Research, Seattle, Washington, to collaborate with Salvador Farreras and Francisco Suarez of the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada and Antonio Sanchez of the Naval Oceanographic Research Station, Ensenada, Mexico, in an analysis of the impact of the 1985 Mexican earthquake on coastal communities. They will also analyze the vulnerability to earthquake hazard of selected western coastal Mexican communities and develop recommendations for reducing vulnerability to future earthquakes and other coastal hazards, such as storm surges and hurricanes. The Mexican earthquake produced unexpected damage in some areas and left other likely areas unscathed. The study will attempt to get a clearer understanding of the pattern of seismic hazard to coastal communities by evaluating both ground motion and other geophysical data and the structural engineering and urban design components of the seismic and tsunami wave damage along the coast. The geoscientific analyses of conditions related to the hazard will be done by the Mexican team, which has expertise in geology and physical oceanography. The U.S. team, which has expertise in urban planning and structural design for natural hazard mitigation, will be responsible for recommendations for microzonation/urban planning and for the design aspects of reconstruction and long-term mitigation. Both groups are well-qualified for their components of the cooperative project. The results of this study will be useful to planners in the U.S. and elsewhere where coastal communities may be susceptible to such disasters. The results will be of particular value to the Mexican government in evaluating the feasibility of targeting selected coastal communities for growth as a part of its reconstruction and decentralization strategies.