Office of Earthquake Engineering
- Provides earthquake engineering and seismic hazard services to Caltrans' engineers
- Develops new and improved structural earthquake engineering analysis tools and analysis methods
- Evaluates and recommends new materials and devices for use in seismic design
- Develops and prepares structural earthquake engineering and seismic hazard related standards, guidelines, details and manuals
What's New...
- Caltrans' Seismic Design Criteria (SDC 1.6) and ARS Online
- Lessons learned from March 11, 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami (pdf)
Our Mailing Address
Division of Engineering Services
Office of Earthquake Engineering
P.O. Box 168041, MS 9 2/5I
Sacramento, California 95816-8041