Missouri Seismic Safety Commission

http://www.eas.slu.edu/MSSC/

Organization of Report

• Cover
• Inside Front Cover
• Preface
• Contents
• Executive Summary
• Missouri's Earthquake Threat
• Earthquake Hazard-Reduction Recommendations
  • Objective 1: Increase Earthquake Awareness and Education
    • 1: Increase awareness of earthquakes and earthquake risk in Missouri among the general public
    • 2: Increase awareness of earthquakes and earthquake risk in Missouri among key professionals in critical fields.
    • 3: Increase awareness of earthquakes and earthquake risk in Missouri among K-12 students.
  • Objective 2: Reduce earthquake hazard through mitigation
    • 01: Promote the adoption and enforcement of technically sound and economically feasible codes, standards and procedures for the design and construction of new structures and additions to existing structures.
    • 02: Identify existing structures especially susceptible to earthquake damage and develop methods to reduce such damage.
    • 03: Establish a process for the review of construction documents and inspection of construction for buildings and structures for compliance with the seismic provisions of the NEHRP Recommended Provisions for the Development of Seismic Regulations for New Buildings or the building codes adopted by the appropriate jurisdiction.
    • 04: Mitigate non-structural hazards for hospitals, schools and other critical facilities.
    • 05: Review Missouri dam safety criteria relative to potential earthquake hazards.
    • 06: Accelerate program to assess, retrofit and/or replace bridges that do not meet current earthquake design standards
    • 07: Minimize the risk for hazardous material spills and contamination that may be caused by an earthquake.
    • 08: Conduct critical lifeline co-location vulnerability studies.
    • 09: Local government assessment of sites for new critical facility and school.
    • 10: Support educational, regulatory, legislative or market-based efforts to promote insurer ability to respond to seismic catastrophes.
  • Objective 3: Improve Emergency Response
    • 1: Review the earthquake response component of the statewide intergrated emergency management system.
    • 2: Promote community emergency response teams (CERTs) statewide
    • 3: Support the formation, training and funding of Urban Search and Rescue Teams within the State of Missouri.
    • 4: Promote development of emergency response plans at the state and local level utilizing the Incident Command System.
    • 5: Promote training and disaster response exercises for local emergency response directors and their personnel.
    • 6: Evaluate mass care exercise and training programs for local emergency management and volunteer agencies for response to disasters
    • 7: Expand and promote training in disaster mortuary and identify potential temporary mortuary sites in major population centers.
    • 8: Enhance communication capability and coordination for emergency response between state and local government and private groups
    • 9: Enhance ability of emergency response personnel, materials and equipment to reach affected areas
    • 10: Promote mutual aid agreements between political subdivisions at local and state levels
    • 11: Promote development of effective, coordinated response plans for utilities
    • 12: Develop the capability to respond to multiple hazardous materials incidents.
  • Objective 4: Improve Recovery
    • 1: Identify and designate earthquake resistant short- and long-term shelters
    • 2: Develop contingency plans for the location, design and construction of long-term temporary. housing.
    • 3: Promote funding and training of post-earthquake building inspection volunteers
    • 4: Enhance the ability of individuals and small businesses to recover from an earthquake disaster.
    • 5: Enhance emergency management and coordination between the federal, state, and local agencies.
    • 6: Encourage further development of a central state group to accept relief donations and coordinate their distribution
    • 7: Support identification of facilities and methods of disposal for uncontaminated debris and hazardous materials from collapsed structures.
    • 8: Enhance ability to provide crisis counseling to individuals in the affected areas.
  • Objective 5: Assess earthquake hazard
    • 1: Map and identify natural geologic hazards.
    • 2: Support a statewide, real-time earthquake monitoring system.
    • 3: Develop a geoscience response team to identify and evaluate post-earthquake effects.
    • 4: Model several distinct soil profile parameters.
      
• Missouri Earthquake Related Statutes
• Commission Members
• Glossary of Terms
• Sources of Information

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• Errata

Last Changed 05/06/97