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Title
Earthquake Preparedness in the San Francisco Bay Region: An Inventory and Assessment of Current Programs and Activities and Recommendations for Future Comprehensive Earthquake Preparedness Projects.
File
PB85223642.pdf
Source
California Seismic Safety Commission, Sacramento.; Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., September 1984, 126 p.
Abstract
The report presents the findings of the needs assessment conducted. It includes a documentation and analysis of historic and current planning and preparedness activities in the Bay Region, and recommendations for programs and activities to support and upgrade the status of earthquake preparedness planning and response capability.
Keywords
Structures; Civil defense; Objectives; Damage; Policies; State government; Disasters; Casualties; Fires; Hazards; Urban areas; San Francisco (California); History; Assessments; Losses; Earthquakes; Geological faults