Author: Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes
Author: Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
estimating losses from future earthquakes
Author: Committee On Earthquake Engineering Panel on Earthquake Loss Estimation MethodologyPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes
Author: Committee on Earthquake Engineering Panel on Earthquake Loss Estimation Methodology (National Research Council)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780309589758
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780309078184
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes: Panel Report
Author: Committee on Earthquake Engineering Panel on Earthquake Loss Estimation Methodology (National Research Council)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780309590242
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Estimating Losses from Future Earth Quakes
Author: George W. HousnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780756710163
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
A key question that must be addressed in earthquake hazard reduction is: How much loss might a city or region experience from future earthquakes? The destructiveness of an earthquake depends on its size, its proximity, and the state of preparation. When all 3 are adverse they combine to produce a great disaster. This set of guidelines for a recommended loss estimation methodology includes: basic method; considerations of uncertainty; user needs; ground-shaking hazard; bldg. damage and losses; collateral hazards; damage and losses to special facilities and urban systems; indirect losses; rapid post-earthquake loss estimates; conclusions and recommendations; and references.
Improved Seismic Monitoring - Improved Decision-Making
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309165032
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Improved Seismic Monitoringâ€"Improved Decision-Making, describes and assesses the varied economic benefits potentially derived from modernizing and expanding seismic monitoring activities in the United States. These benefits include more effective loss avoidance regulations and strategies, improved understanding of earthquake processes, better engineering design, more effective hazard mitigation strategies, and improved emergency response and recovery. The economic principles that must be applied to determine potential benefits are reviewed and the report concludes that although there is insufficient information available at present to fully quantify all the potential benefits, the annual dollar costs for improved seismic monitoring are in the tens of millions and the potential annual dollar benefits are in the hundreds of millions.
HAZUS(r) MH Estimated Annualized Earthquake Losses for the United States (FEMA 366 / April 2008)
Author: Federal Emergency AgencyPublisher: FEMA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Recent earthquakes around the world show a pattern of steadily increasing damages and losses that are due primarily to two factors: (1) significant growth in earthquake-prone urban areas and (2) vulnerability of the older building stock, including buildings constructed within the past 20 years. In the United States, earthquake risk has grown substantially with development while the earthquake hazard has remained relatively constant. Understanding the hazard requires studying earthquake characteristics and locales in which they occur while understanding the risk requires an assessment of the potential damage to the built environment and to the welfare of people - especially in high risk areas. Estimating the varying degree of earthquake risk throughout the United States is useful for informed decision-making on mitigation policies, priorities, strategies, and funding levels in the public and private sectors. For example, potential losses to new buildings may be reduced by applying seismic design codes and using specialized construction techniques. However, decisions to spend money on either of those solutions require evidence of risk. In the absence of a nationally accepted criterion and methodology for comparing seismic risk across regions, a consensus on optimal mitigation approaches has been difficult to reach. While there is a good understanding of high risk areas such as Los Angeles, there is also growing recognition that other regions such as New York City and Boston have a low earthquake hazard but are still at high risk of significant damage and loss. This high risk level reflects the dense concentrations of buildings and infrastructure in these areas constructed without the benefit of modern seismic design provisions. In addition, mitigation policies and practices may not have been adopted because the earthquake risk was not clearly demonstrated and the value of using mitigation measures in reducing that risk may not have been understood. This study highlights the impacts of both high risk and high exposure on losses caused by earthquakes. It is based on loss estimates generated by HAZUS(R)-MH, a geographic information system (GIS)-based earthquake loss estimation tool developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in cooperation with the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS). The HAZUS tool provides a method for quantifying future earthquake losses. It is national in scope, uniform in application, and comprehensive in its coverage of the built environment.
Reducing Earthquake Losses
Author: Reducing earthquake losses
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428920374
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Earthquakes have caused massive death and destruction, and potentially damaging earthquakes are certain to occur in the future. Although earthquakes are uncontrollable, the losses they cause can be reduced by building structures that resist earthquake damage, matching land use to risk, developing emergency response plans, and other means. Since 1977, the federal government has had a research oriented program to reduce earthquake losses the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). This program has made significant contributions toward improving our understanding of earthquakes and strategies to reduce their impact. Implementing action based on this understanding, however, has been quite difficult. This chapter provides an introduction to earthquakes: a sum mary of the earthquake hazard across the United States, a review of the types of losses earthquakes cause, a discussion of why earthquakes are a congressional concern, and an introduction to mitigation actions taken prior to earthquakes that can reduce losses when they occur. The federal policy response to date, NEHRP is then described and reviewed. Finally, specific policy options for improving federal efforts to reduce future earthquake losses are presented.