Introduction to Earthquakes and Seismicity

RESOURCES

Printed Resources:

Ambrose, J. and Vergun, D. (1995). Simplified Building Design for Wind and Earthquake Forces-
Third Edition. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., USA.

Arnold, C. and Reitherman, R. (1982). Building Configuration and Seismic Design. John Wiley
and Sons, Inc, USA.

Bolt, B. A. (1993). Earthquakes. W.H Freeman and Company, New York, USA.

EERI (1994). Expected Seismic Performance of Buildings. Earthquake Engineering Research
Institute, Oakland, USA.

NBCC. National Building Code of Canada 2005. National Research Council of Canada,
Ottawa, 2005.

Paulay, T. and M. J. N. Priestley. (1992). Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry
Buildings. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., USA.

Internet Resources:

Earthquakes and Nature of Earthquakes

The Restless Planet: Earthquakes by PBS TV (a series of Web articles, including few excellent
animations)

Information on Some Damaging Historic Earthquakes in Western Canada by Geological Survey of
Canada (including the description of effects and photographs of the 1949 Queen Charlotte, 1946
Vancouver Island, 1700 Cascadia etc.)

Information on Earthquakes in Canada, by Geological Survey of Canada (also includes general info
on the nature of earthquakes)

Seismic Zones in Western Canada, by Geological Survey of Canada

More on Earthquakes by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ; includes information on the historic U.S.
earthquakes e.g. 1906 San Francisco earthquake, earthquake glossary and links to other earthquake-
related sites

Building Response to Earthquakes

Introduction to Earthquake Engineering by V.V. Bertero. National Information Service for Earthquake
Engineering, University of California at Berkeley

The Nature of Ground Motion and Its Effect on Buildings by Christopher Arnold. National Information
Service for Earthquake Engineering, University of California at Berkeley

Earthquake Damage Database

The Earthquake Engineering Online Archive, University of California, Berkeley - contains 10,000 photos illustrating damags in major earthquakes worldwide

EASY Earthquake Engineering Slide Information System , Department of Civil Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

General Earthquake Information

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, USA

National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE), USA

Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Buffalo, NY

National Information Center of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE), Kanpur, India