Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards. A Handbook

This second edition of the FEMA 154 Handbook provides a standard rapid visual screening procedure to identify, inventory, and rank buildings that are potentially seismically hazardous. The scoring system has been revised, based on new information, and the Handbook has been shortened and focused to facilitate implementation. The technical basis for the rapid visual screening procedure, including a summary of results from the efforts to solicit user feedback, is documented in the companion second edition of the FEMA 155 report, Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: Supporting Documentation.