By Wael M. Hassan, John Thornley, Janise Rodgers, and Christopher Motter, with contributions from Cara Shonsey, Amanda Siok, and Michael Mieler.
July 2021, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
This report is based on a year-long investigation of the earthquake impacts and covers seismology and tectonics, geotechnical impacts on buildings and infrastructures, building codes and their impact on the earthquake damage, structural impacts on buildings, nonstructural damage, performance of instrumented buildings, impacts on schools and hospitals, performance of bridges, and damage to lifelines and utilities. The report also includes risk mitigation recommendations based post-event findings, discussions, and meetings among state, federal, and local stakeholders as well as an overview of a pilot business resilience survey deployment by EERI’s LFE Business Resilience Working Group.
Read the Report: EERI Earthquake Reconnaissance Report: M7.1 Anchorage Earthquake on November 30, 2018 (25.5 MB PDF)
