Seismic Risk Analysis for Mid-America Communities

208 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002.This study tests the approach on three cases: the communities of Sikeston, Missouri, Carbondale, Illinois, and Urbana, Illinois. In addition, this study suggests how to extend the results from the cases to Mid-America communities. Accordingly, the most devastating earthquake for communities in the small and the large source zones (represented by Sikeston and Carbondale, respectively) would be an M8 earthquake along the New Madrid seismic fault, and in the outside source zone (represented by Urbana) an on-site M6 earthquake; the dominant seismic risk source for buildings and population in communities in the small and the large source zones is the New Madrid seismic fault, and in the outside source zone the whole of Mid-America; the dominant seismic risk source for lifelines in communities in the small source zone is the New Madrid seismic fault, and in the large and the outside source zones the whole of Mid-America. These results have positive implications for Mid-America communities. The communities can understand their seismic risk and potential problems associated with their resources. Therefore, they can take responsive measures to reduce the seismic risk and address the problems. They can also apply the generic approach to their earthquake response programs.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD