Corporate Members
Information about SSA's corporate members is below. For additional information click a company's name to visit their website. View information about Corporate Membership in SSA or telephone SSA Headquarters at (510) 525-5474.
Bechtel Corporation
P.O. Box 193965San Francisco, CA 94119
Bechtel is one of the world's largest engineering-construction firms. Founded in 1898, Bechtel provides premier technical, management, and directly related services to develop, manage, engineer, build, and operate installations for customers worldwide. Many of the objectives of the Seismological Society of America, such as promoting public safety and showing that it is reasonably practicable and economical to build for security from earthquake damage, are in close accord with Bechtel's vision and values.
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Degenkolb Engineers
Natalia Schoek350 Sansome Street, Suite 900
San Francisco, CA 94119
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ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Technical Information Center
URC-URC-SW104, P.O. Box 2189
Houston, TX 77252-2189
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GeoHazards International
Brian Tucker
200 Town & Country Village
Palo Alto, CA 94301
GeoHazards International (GHI) is a California-based nonprofit organization working toward global earthquake safety. Supported by member donations and grant funding, GHI seeks to reduce death and suffering due to earthquakes and other natural hazards in the world's most vulnerable communities through advocacy, preparedness, mitigation and prevention. GHI initiates earthquake safety projects that assess risk, raise awareness, improve seismic safety and strengthen the ability of local governments and non-governmental organizations to manage their risk. Visit www.geohaz.org.
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Geotech Instruments
Lani Oncescu10755 Sanden Drive
Dallas, TX 75238-1366
Geotech Instruments was founded in 1936 as an oil exploration company and was reorganized in the early '60's to manufacture earthquake and explosion monitoring equipment. Geotech Instruments manufactures ultralow-noise short-period and broadband seismometers, 24-bit digitizers, portable and strong-motion recorders, seismological networks, CTBT infrasound arrays and Auxiliary seismic stations, Early Warning Systems, and complete support software. Geotech Instruments also provides seismic network design, as well as installation and training services.
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Guralp Systems Ltd
Horst Rademacher
12 Southwood Dr.
Orinda, CA 94563
Guralp Systems Ltd. (GSL), based in Berkshire in southern England, is a leading designer and manufacturer of broadband seismic instrumentation. Their product range encompasses nearly all types of seismic devices, including land-based, ocean-bottom and borehole instrumentation. Founded by Dr. Cansun Guralp in 1985, the firm has grown steadily as a result of its excellent reputation withing the industry, and now employs over 60 people in a 10,200 square foot factory.
Guralp Systems boasts an international clientele, particularly in eminent areas of seismological research such as the USA and Japan. GSL was presented with the Queen's Award for Export Acheivement in 1999 in recognition of this attainment. As an ISO 9001-certified company GSI has provided equipment for many major projects worldwide. In addition, GSL provides complete turn-key systems for volcano monitoring and combined infrasound and seismic research, as well as Ocean Bottom Observatories.
Kinemetrics, Inc.
Ogie Kuraica
222 Vista Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91107
When OYO Corporation purchased Kinemetrics, Inc. in May 1991, it acquired a relatively small but powerful company with an impressive history. With fewer than 70 employees worldwide, Kinemetrics is the global leader in earthquake instrumentation solutions and a major player in the field of earthquake research. The equipment it produces provides data and information to scientists and engineers who are involved in making our world a safer place to live. Some of Kinemetrics' instruments are used to monitor the seismic safety of many of the world's wonders, including India's Taj Mahal, Greece's Parthenon, Egypt's Sphinx, and famous structures in the U.S. such as New York's Statue of Liberty and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
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Nanometrics, Inc.
Neil Spriggs250 Herzberg Road
Kanata, Ontario
Canada K2K 2A1
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Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Lloyd S. Cluff, Geosciences Department245 Market Street, Room 403
San Francisco, CA 94105
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest investor-owned gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of PG&E Corporation. PG&E's infrastructure includes 131,000 miles of electric lines and 43,000 miles of gas pipelines. There are 18,400 employees who carry out Pacific Gas and Electric Company's primary business -- the transmission and delivery of energy. The company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 13 million people throughout northern and central California, a region of moderate to high earthquake activity. PG&E provides strong leadership toward improving seismic safety throughout its service territory.
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Puerto Rico Strong Motion Program
P.O. Box 9041Mayagüez, PR 00681
The Puerto Rico Strong Motion Program (PRSMP) is under the Civil Engineering & Surveying Department at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. The program began in the mid-1970's with the installation of eight free-field stations and an instrumented building on the island. Today Puerto Rico is one of the most seismically instrumented regions in the world. The main objective of the program is to minimize fatalities and economic losses on the island due to earthquakes. This is done by determining the acceleration records for which buildings should be designed, supporting related research, supporting the Puerto Rico Seismic Network with real-time strong-motion data, and supporting emergency agencies.
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Refraction Technology, Inc.
1600 Tenth Street, Suite APlano, TX 75074
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Risk Engineering, Inc.
Robin K. McGuire4155 Darley Avenue, Suite A
Boulder, CO 80305
Risk Engineering, Inc. was formed in 1984 to provide consulting services in probability and statistical analyses on earthquake problems. REI's range of consulting services includes earthquake hazard and risk analysis to major facilities, risk analysis for portfolios of properties, hazard evaluation for regions to assist in risk reduction, ground-motion estimation, probabilistic performance evaluations, and integration of risks to facilities from earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, climate changes, human activities, and unknown geologic conditions. In addition to its consulting and research services, Risk Engineering, Inc. provides software and databases for the estimation of earthquake hazard and loss. REI's software products are currently being used by more than 100 institutions in engineering, insurance, risk management, government, and research.
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URS Corporation
John Bischoff1333 Broadway Suite 800
Oakland, CA 94612
URS Corporation is one of the leading engineering firms in the U.S., with a professional staff of approximately 26,000 employees in more than 20 countries. URS, which is comprised of the past well known engineering firms of Woodward-Clyde, Dames & Moore, and John Blume and Associates, is a leader in the fields of seismology, seismic geology, and geotechnical and structural earthquake engineering. The firm has conducted seismic hazard evaluations and developed seismic design parameters for many tens of thousands of important and critical facilities worldwide. Basic applied research has been a focus of URS Earth scientists and engineers, who have received numerous grants from the USGS, NSF, DOE, and DOD. Some of our professionals have pioneered the development of field, analytical, and computational techniques used in the earthquake profession.
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