Library

Webpage providing earthquake safety tips including proactive home structure and utility action items.

Report providing an introduction to the NEHRP recommended seismic provisions for new buildings and other structures.

Factsheet describing methods for securing HVAC units to avoid damage during an earthquake.

Website providing a probabilistic map of the expected number of damaging earthquakes around the U.S.

Standard using performance-based principles to determine dead, live, soil, flood, tsunami, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, earthquake, wind, and fire loads, and their combinations for general structural design. This version of the standard was published in the year 2016 and is available in both digital...

Standard using performance-based principles to determine dead, live, soil, flood, tsunami, snow, rain, atmospheric ice, seismic, and wind loads, and their combinations for general structural design. The current version of this standard was published in the year 2022 and is available in both digital...

Report describing the interactions, both positive and negative, between common green building practices and the robustness of residential buildings to withstand natural hazards.

Database describing FEMA preparedness webinars including natural hazard preparedness.

Fact sheet describing guidance concerning lot selection and building siting considerations for coastal residential buildings, including factors that constrain siting decisions, coastal setback lines, common siting problems, and suggestions for builders, designers, and owners; also published in FEMA...