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• Report on Costs and Benefits of Natural Hazard Mitigation.
  January 2000, 58 p.
  Keywords: ; Wind (Meteorology); Retrofitting; Earthquake engineering; Case studies; Emergency preparedness; Seismic design; Natural disasters; Land use planning; US FEMA; Cities; Costs; Benefits

• Bakun, W. H.; Johnston, A. C.; Hopper, M. G.
  Modified Mercalli Intensities (MMI) for Some Earthquakes in Eastern North America (ENA) and Empirical MMI Site Corrections for Towns in ENA.
  January 2002, 76 p.
  Identifying Number(s): USGS/OFR-02-109
  Keywords: Cape Ann (Massachusetts); Locations; Assignments; Magnitudes; Site corrections; Earthquakes; Missouri; Eastern North America; Illinois; Towns; Grand Banks (Newfoundland); Risco (Missouri); Cities; Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI); Marked Tree (Arkansas); Tables (Data)

• Seismic Retrofit Incentive Programs. A Handbook for Local Governments.
  Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., August 1994, 246 p.
  Identifying Number(s): FEMA-254
  Keywords: ; Emergency plans; Hazards; Buildings; Local government; Earthquake engineering; Case studies; Financing; Masonry; Communities; Seismic effects; California; Land use; Cities; Legislation; Retrofitting

• Bakun, W. H.; Johnston, A. C.; Hopper, M. G.
  Modified Mercalli Intensities (MMI) for Large Earthquakes Near New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811-1812 and Near Charleston, South Carolina, in 1886.
  January 2002, 36 p.
  Identifying Number(s): USGS/OFR-02-184
  Keywords: Locations; New Madrid (Missouri); Assignments; Longitude; Magnitudes; Site corrections; Earthquakes; Latitude; Charleston (South Carolina); Missouri; Towns; Cities; Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI); Tables (Data)

• Bakun, W. H.; Hopper, M. G.
  Empirical Modified Mercalli Intensity Site Corrections for Towns in Eastern North America.
  January 2003, 38 p.
  Identifying Number(s): USGS/OFR-03-377
  Keywords: Locations; Assignments; Magnitudes; Site corrections; Earthquakes; Eastern North America; Towns; Cities; Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI); Tables (Data)