Armenia Earthquake Research

该奖项是为了支持美国研究小组在1988年12月7日发生灾难性地震后在亚美尼亚开展的实地工作。多学科美国团队的工作强调了以下领域：-绘制地表断层破裂图；-部署仪器阵列以监测地震活动并记录余震序列引起的强烈地面震动；-检查损坏和倒塌的建筑物并获取进一步分析的图纸；-检查地震仪和加速度仪记录的主震和大余震；-参观埃里温附近的核电站；-绘制滑坡和液化图；-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减轻地震危害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.