Practical Lessons from the Loma Prieta Earthquake









PRACTICAL LESSONS

FROM THE LOMA

PRIETA EARTHQUAKE

Report from a Symposium Sponsored by the

Geotechnical Board and the Board on Natural Disasters

of the National Research Council

Symposium Held in Conjunction with the Earthquake Engineering

Research Institute

Geotechnical Board Commission on Engineering and Technical

Systems

Board on Natural Disasters Commission on Engineering and

Technical Systems

and

Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources

National Research Council



Preface

The Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San Francisco area on October 17,

1989, causing the loss of 63 lives and $10 billion of damage. As the results of the

research, conducted in response to the earthquake, became known over the

following three years, the U.S. Geological Survey, the sponsor of much of the

research, approached the National Research Council (NRC) about how the results

of the Loma Prieta earthquake research could be applied to other earthquakeprone

areas of

the country.

The NRC's Geotechnical Board and Board on Natural Disasters formed a

committee, under the auspices of the NRC, to plan a major symposium on lessons

learned from research and related activities conducted on the Loma Prieta

earthquake. The Committee on Practical Lessons from the Loma Prieta

Earthquake, chaired by Lloyd Cluff, accepted the responsibility to develop the

symposium agenda, invite the speakers, review the keynote papers, and

coordinate activities with the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, which

was responsible for managing the symposium and inviting symposium

participants. The Symposium on Practical Lessons from the Loma Prieta

Earthquake took place in San Francisco on March 22-23, 1993, and was attended

by over 400 individuals.

The committee also agreed to develop these proceedings, which consist of

six keynote papers solicited by the committee for the major sessions of the

symposium: Geotechnical; Buildings; Emergency Preparedness and Response;

Lifelines; Highway Bridges; and Recovery, Mitigation, and Planning. Selected

remarks by panels of discussants on the applicability to other areas of the country

of each keynoter's lessons are included following each keynote paper. The


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