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• Hurricane Warning: The Critical Need for a National Hurricane Research Initiative.
  January 2007, 40 p.
  Identifying Number(s): NSB-06-115
  Keywords: ; Economic impact; Hazards; Natural disasters; Losses; Infrastructure; Hurricanes; Disasters

• State and Local Migitation Planning How-to Guide. Understanding Your Risks: Identifying Hazards and Estimating Losses.
  August 2001, 167 p.
  Identifying Number(s): FEMA-386-2
  Keywords: Hazard profiles; Loss estimation; Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); Floods; Tsunami; Tornado; Local government; Wildfire; Earthquakes; State government; Landslides; Losses; Identify hazards; Profile hazard events; Risks; Mitigation planning; Coastal storms; Natural hazards; Asset inventories

• Ackroyd, M. H.; Hong, S. T.
  Incident Losses: Identification and Evaluation Methods to be Employed. Optimum Seismic Protection for New Building Construction in Eastern Metropolitan Areas.
  National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Applied Science and Research Applications., November 1972, 23 p.
  Identifying Number(s): INTERNAL STUDY-21
  Keywords: Buildings; Damage assessment; Earthquake engineering; Earthquake resistant structures; Seismic design; Earthquakes; Eastern Region (United States); Losses; Design criteria; Economic factors; Dynamic structural analysis

• Reasenberg, P. A.; Shostak, N.; Terwilliger, S.
  Sensitivity of Earthquake Loss Estimates to Source Modeling Assumptions and Uncertainty.
  January 2006, 38 p.
  Identifying Number(s): USGS/OFR-2006-1020
  Keywords: United States; Emergency management; Hazards; Computer programs; Earthquakes; Losses; Modeling; Calculation; California; Hurricanes; San Francisco Bay; Economic factors; Floods

• Shinozuka, M.; Rose, A.; Eguchi, R. T.
  Engineering and Socioeconomic Impacts of Earthquakes: An Analysis of Electricity Lifeline Disruptions in the New Madrid Area.
  National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA.; New York State Government, Albany.; Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC.; Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., January 1998, 216 p.
  Identifying Number(s): ['MCEER-MONO-2', 'ISBN-0-9656682-2-3']
  Keywords: Risk assessment; Vulnerability; Public policy; Losses; Social impact; Industry; Electric power generation; Earthquake damage; Electric power distribution; Economic impact; Electric power transmission; Business; Energy use; Policy making; Electric utilities; Lifelines; Earthquake engineering; Economic models; Emergency preparedness; Seismic effects; Electric power industry; New Madrid Seismic Zone; Electric power production; Socioeconomic impacts; Memphis (Tennessee); Regional analysis

• Bernknopf, R. L.; Brookshire, D. S.; Ganderton, P. T.
  Role of Geoscience Information in Reducing Catastrophic Loss Using a Web-Based Economics Experiment.
  January 2003, 38 p.
  Identifying Number(s): USGS/PP-1683
  Keywords: ; Floods; Hazards; Risk management; Earthquakes; Public safety; Geology; Data analysis; Natural disasters; Economic theory; Losses; Information systems; Maps; Insurance; Geophysics; Assessments; Tornadoes; Fires; Castrophes; Costs; Benefits

• Swan, S. W.; Harris, S. K.
  Island of Guam Earthquake of August 8, 1993.
  National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.; New York State Science and Technology Foundation, Albany., September 30, 1993, 58 p.
  Identifying Number(s): NCEER-93-0017
  Keywords: Guam; Economic impact; Harbor facilities; Buildings; Damage assessment; Earthquake engineering; High-rise hotels; Earthquake; Reinforced concrete; Soil properties; Losses; Magnitude; Structures; Seismology; Tourism; Tectonics; Injuries; Coasts; Liquefaction

• 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.
  California Seismic Safety Commission, Sacramento.; Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., September 1984, 126 p.
  Keywords: Damage; Policies; Hazards; San Francisco (California); State government; Earthquakes; Urban areas; History; Losses; Structures; Civil defense; Assessments; Objectives; Fires; Casualties; Disasters; Geological faults

• Creating a Global Building Inventory for Earthquake Loss Assessment and Risk Management.
  January 2008, 110 p.
  Identifying Number(s): USGS-OFR-2008-1160
  Keywords: ; Buildings; Risk; Earthquakes; Population growth; Fatalities; Trends; Urban areas; Losses; Inventories; Structures (Buildings); Assessments; Mitigation

• Landslide Loss Reduction: A Guide for State and Local Government Planning. Earthquake Hazards Reduction Series 52.
  Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., August 1989, 60 p.
  Identifying Number(s): FEMA-182
  Keywords: ; Emergency plans; Hazards; Local government; State government; Landslides; Losses; Geological processes; Methodology; Ground movements; Resources; Mitigation; Disasters

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