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### Success Stories

            - A Stitch in Time Can Save the Whole Business  PDF 181KB   New!                The FEMA QuakeSmart Program
            - New Findings to Keep Flat-Plate Frames from Flattening  PDF 282KB                Safer and more efficient building systems for earthquake-prone regions
            - The 1868 Hayward Earthquake Alliance  PDF 554KB                Transforming Communities Through Seismic Awareness
            - MCEER Research  PDF 238KB                Enabling Disaster-Resilient Communities
            - Getting the Word Out to Save Lives and Property  PDF 270KB                The FEMA-NEHRP Publications Program
            - The Mid-America Earthquake Center  PDF 334KB                Managing Seismic Risks from Source to Society
            - How Many People Were Impacted? and How Severely?  PDF 455KB                Accelerating Situational Awareness with PAGER
            - A Hypothetical Disaster Comes to Life  PDF 485KB                How would a magnitude 7.8 earthquake impact southern California?
            - Map Your Neighborhood  PDF 425KB                Building and Strengthening Disaster Readiness Among Neighbors
            - FEMA Advances               Efforts to Reduce Earthquake Losses Through Performance-Based Seismic               Design  PDF 381KB                Methodologies to determine the seismic performance of a building's               structural or nonstructural components
            - Keeping               Up Bridges in the New Madrid Seismic Zone  PDF 578KB                Area-specific data to better protect bridges in the NMSZ
            - The Pacific               Earthquake Engineering Research Center: A Decade of Achievement                PDF 366KB                A center for multidisciplinary earthquake engineering research and               education
            - Unearthing               the Secrets of the San Andreas: A NEHRP-Related Success Story                PDF 456KB                The world's first underground earthquake observatory
            - Ensuring               That When the Ground Starts Shaking, Bridges Can Bend Without Breaking                PDF 553KB                Efforts to reduce the vulnerability of the nation's more than 600,000               bridges to earthquake damage
            - FEMA Homebuilders'               Guide to Earthquake-Resistant Design and Construction  PDF 414KB                Technical Guidance on the Design and Construction of Earthquake-Resistant               Structures
            - Bringing               Cutting-Edge Science to Nonstructural Mitigation  PDF 506KB                State-of-the-Art Testing Capabilities for Nonstructural Components               and Equipment
            - ShakeMap               and ShakeCast  PDF 574KB                Revolutionizing Informatics for Earthquake Response
            - The NEHRP               "Recommended Provisions" and the National Model Building Codes                PDF 518KB                How NEHRP Interacts with the Code-Making Bodies
            - Strengthening               Pipeline Survivability to Avoid Post-Quake Devastation  PDF 154KB                A systematic and comprehensive assessment of ground rupture effects               on critical underground lifelines
            - Breaking               Through Language Barriers with an Urgent Call to Prepare  PDF               165KB                Campaign to increase earthquake awareness and readiness among the               non-English-speaking communities of the Bay Area
            - Southern               Californians Are Being Dared to Prepare  PDF 146KB                Yearlong effort to strengthen awareness of and readiness for "the               Big One"
            - Bringing               Down the House  PDF 161KB                NEESwood Project Shakes Full-Scale Wood Townhouse in Northridge               Simulation

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### Awards

            - ATC Awards for Top               Seismic Products and Programs of the 20th Century  PDF 31KB                NEHRP is a Top Seismic Program of the 20th Century!

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### Presentations

            - NEHRP Agency Presentations at the 2008 National Earthquake               Conference                - Strategic                   Plan 2008–2012 Update  PDF 128KB
              - NIST                   NEHRP Research Overview  PDF 476KB
              - NSF Role in NEHRP  PDF 1.3MB
              - USGS in NEHRP  PDF 3.3MB
              - Building a More Resilient Nation  PDF 5.8MB 
            - Program Budgets               Update  PDF 41KB                NEHRP Agency Budgets FY 2005–FY 2009 
            - October 1,               2007 Program Update  PDF 1.4MB                2007 Western States Seismic Policy Council–International Code               Council (WSSPC–ICC) Annual Conference
            - June 20, 2007 Program               Update  PDF 561KB                5th George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation               (NEES) Annual Meeting
            - May 1, 2007 Program               Update  PDF 1.7MB                House Science and Technology Committee and Senate Appropriations               Committee Staff Members Meetings

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### Reports&Plans

            - Annual Reports                - March                   2008  PDF 1.8MB
              - March                   2007  PDF 1.2MB 
            - Strategic Plan                - Strategic Plan 							for the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction                   Program Fiscal Years 2009-2013  PDF 1.3MB                                     - Development of the 2009–2013 Strategic Plan 
            - Performance Measures                - Interim                   Report on NEHRP Performance Measures  PDF 546KB 
            - Biennial Reports                - Biennial                   Report to Congress for Fiscal Year 2003 and 2004  PDF 3MB 

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### Workshop Summaries

            - 7th               Disasters Roundtable Workshop—NEHRP at 25 Years: Accomplishments               and Challenges                February 20, 2003, Washington, DC

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### Legislation

            - June 2006 Executive               Order  PDF 22KB                Directs the creation of a national public alert and warning system.

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Last updated: 3/13/2009