An Assessment of the Consequences and Preparations for a Catastrophic California Earthquake: Findings and Actions Taken - Prepared By Federal Emergency Management Agency
The Project Gutenberg EBook of An Assessment of the Consequences and Preparations for a Catastrophic California Earthquake: Findings and Actions Taken, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: An Assessment of the Consequences and Preparations for a Catastrophic California Earthquake: Findings and Actions Taken Prepared By Federal Emergency Management Agency Author: Various Release Date: June 7, 2006 [EBook #18527] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE *** Produced by Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net AN ASSESSMENT OF THE CONSEQUENCES AND PREPARATIONS FOR A CATASTROPHIC CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE: FINDINGS AND ACTIONS TAKEN PREPARED BY FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY FROM ANALYSES CARRIED OUT BY THE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL ad hoc COMMITTEE ON ASSESSMENT OF CONSEQUENCES AND PREPARATIONS FOR A MAJOR CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE federal emergency management agency Washington, D.C. 20472 November 1980 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page CHAPTER: I. Executive Summary of Findings, Issues, and Actions 1 II. Geologic Earthquake Scenarios 15 III. Assessment of Losses for Selected Potential California Earthquakes 21 IV.