Applications of Research from the U.S. Geological Survey Program, Assessment ofRegional Earthquake Hazards and Risk Along the Wasatch Front, Utah

摘要

The report represents the transfer of pertinent information about earthquakehazards along the Wasatch Front to researchers, public officials, design professionals, land-use planners, and emergency managers as part of the USGS effort to mitigate the effects of earthquake hazards. Presented in the report is an explanation of how new information was incorporated into policy and practice and how new information about the earthquake hazards was specifically applied in Utah. The report, therefore, is a compendium of information developed at the local level to reduce the earthquake hazards of surface-fault rupture, landslides and debris flows, liquefaction, and tectonic subsidence with an explanation of the methodologies followed to encourage the organization and application of scientific information.