| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 183 pages) : illustrations, color maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166, 177-178). |
| Summary |
Improved Seismic Monitoring, 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. |
| Contents |
""FrontMatter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The Role of Seismic Monitoring in Decision-Making""; ""3 Conceptual Framework for Benefit Estimation and a Taxonomy of Benefits""; ""4 Benefits from Improved Earthquake Hazard Assessment and Forecasting""; ""5 Benefits from Improved Loss Estimation Models""; ""6 Benefits from Performance-Based Engineering""; ""7 Benefits for Emergency Response and Recovery""; ""8 Integrating the Benefits� Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""References""; ""APPENDIXES"" |
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""Appendix A Excerpts from USGS Circular 1111""""Appendix B Committee and Staff Biographies""; ""Appendix C Acronyms and Abbreviations"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Seismology.
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Seismology. |
| Indexed Term |
Andre fag (naturvidenskab og teknik) Andre fag |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Economic Benefits of Improved Seismic Monitoring.
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National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Improved seismic monitoring. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2006 0309096952 (OCoLC)63209864 |
| ISBN |
0309551781 (electronic book) |
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9780309551786 (electronic book) |
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0309096952 |
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9780309096959 |
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