Interesting Disaster & Engineering Web Sites

Central Eastern United States - Seismic Source Characterization for Nuclear Facilities (CEUS-SSC)

http://www.ceus-ssc.com/index.htm

PSHA has become a generally accepted procedure for assessing seismic hazard levels used to support seismic design, seismic safety assessments, and related decision making for industry and government. Input to a PSHA (called a Seismic Hazard Model) consists of two models: a seismic source characterization (SSC) model and ground motion characterization model, typically composed of ground motion prediction equations (also called attenuation relationships). These two models are necessary to calculate probabilistic hazard results at a particular geographic location. This website contains information describing a new SSC Model for the Central and Eastern United States. The CEUS SSC Project provides a new regional SSC model for PSHA performed for sites in the CEUS. It also provides new publically available data, models and methods.

A Sightseer's Guide to Engineering

http://www.engineeringsights.org/

This informative website, created by the National Society of Professional Engineers, provides information about important engineered structures around the United States. Visitors to the homepage should note the colorful interactive map of the United States. Clicking on each state returns a list of entries, complete with photos and information about the engineering nuances of each building or structure. Visitors should also note that there is a search engine on the site, along with a dropdown menu of structures organized by engineering discipline.