Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

Opportunity in Chaos: Rebuilding After the 1994 Northridge and 1995 Kobe Earthquakes

February 12, 2018

Robert B. Olshansky, Laurie A. Johnson, and Kenneth C. Topping with Yoshiteru Murosaki, Kazuyoshi Ohnishi, Hisako Koura, and Ikuo Kobayashi.

A web publication for a long-term recovery comparative study of the Northridge and Kobe earthquakes is available for download, showing useful lessons that can be learned from these past earthquakes.