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The following organization provides Earthquake Engineering information.Mid-America Earthquake Center
1241 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 205 N. Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 Telephone: (217) 244-6302 Fax: (217) 333-3821 Website: http://mae.ce.uiuc.edu The Mid-America Earthquake Center is a multi-disciplinary center of expertise that is directed at reducing losses in future earthquakes that may strike the central and eastern United States. MAE Center projects are multidisciplinary in nature and coordinated to serve three focus areas: Essential Facilities, Transportation Networks and Hazards Evaluation. The following four general goals of the MAE Center are adapted from the National Earthquake Strategy Working Group report, to tailor the MAE Center’s program to address the issues that are specifically relevant to the built environment of the central and eastern U.S.
2. Improve data for construction standards and codes. 3. Continue the development of seismic hazards and risk assessment tools. 4. Develop an understanding of societal impacts and responses related to earthquake hazard mitigation. These goals are being met through the development of products such as numerical methods, computer software, modeling procedures, and new methods of seismic retrofit for existing structures, to name a few. Projects in the Education Program extend earthquake engineering knowledge and awareness to students from K-12 through graduate school. The Outreach Program addresses professional education as well as establishing collaboration with industrial and governmental partners. Visit the website for more detailed information and product ordering information.
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