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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: ; Benefits; Castrophes; Tornadoes; Floods; Public safety; Economic theory; Costs; Hazards; Assessments; Natural disasters; Insurance; Fires; Information systems; Losses; Geophysics; Geology; Risk management; Data analysis; Maps; EarthquakesProfile of Fire in the United States, 1992-2001. Thirteenth Edition.
October 2004, 24 p.
Identifying Number(s): FEMA/FA-293-ED13
Keywords: National Incident Reporting System (NFIRS); Tables (Data); United States; Graphs (Charts); Fires; Reporting; Occurrence; Residential buildings; StatisticsColvard, E. M.; Rogers, J.
Facing the Great Disaster: How the Men and Women of the U.S. Geological Survey Responded to the 1906 'San Francisco Earthquake'.
January 2006, 22 p.
Identifying Number(s): USGS-GIP-31
Keywords: Damage assessment; Mapping; Staffers; Emergency assistance; Topographers; United States Geological Survey; Fires; Buildings; San Francisco (California); Federal government employees; Aftermath; Earthquakes; Geological faultsSupplemental Environmental Assessment to the Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) for Typcial Recurring Actions Resulting from Flood, Earthquake, Fire, Rain, and Wind Disasters in California as Proposed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Mojave Water Agency, Groundwater Monitoring Wells Replacement Project, FEMA-DR-1577-CA.
October 2006, 11 p.
Keywords: ; Water wells; Crisis management; Environmental impacts; California; Natural disasters; Rain; Federal assistance programs; Ground water; Wind; Fires; Floods; Restoration; Mitigation; Recovery; Monitoring; Emergencies; EarthquakesSupplemental Environmental Assessment, Lick Observatory, University of California at Santa Cruz (PDMC-PJ-09-CA-2005-065).
February 2007, 12 p.
Keywords: ; Crisis management; Environmental impacts; California; Natural disasters; Rain; Federal assistance programs; Wind; Fires; Floods; Alternatives; Resources; EarthquakesConfronting Natural Disasters: An International Decade for Natural Hazard Reduction.
January 1987, 113 p.
Keywords: Forest fires; Emergency preparedness; Hurricanes; Volcanoes; IDNHR (International Decade for Natural Hazard Reduction); Disasters; Floods; Fires; Hazards; Cooperative programs; Safety; Tsunamis; Firestorms; EarthquakesWiggins, J. H.
Fire Ignitions from the Whittier Narrows Earthquake of October 1, 1987.
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Directorate for Engineering., November 8, 1988, 63 p.
Identifying Number(s): REPT-2020.1
Keywords: Sources; Intensity; California; Forecasting; Whittier (California); Mathematical models; Los Angeles County (California); Conflagration; Fires; Graphs (Charts); Statistical data; Ignition; EarthquakesWiggins, J. H.
Economic Consequences of the Hinsdale, Illinois Bell Fire of May 8, 1988.
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Directorate for Engineering., September 5, 1989, 40 p.
Keywords: Emergency preparedness; Fire losses; Damage; Disasters; Fires; Economic impact; Telephone systems; EarthquakesMohammadi, J.; Alyasin, S.; Bak, D. N.
Investigation of Cause and Effects of Fires Following the Loma Prieta Earthquake.
National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Div. of Industrial Science and Technological Innovation., May 1992, 194 p.
Identifying Number(s): IIT-CE-9201
Keywords: Fire prevention; Statistical analysis; Loma Prieta Earthquake; Earthquake damage; Fires; Risk; Fire hazards; Buildings; Leakage; San Francisco (California); Seismic effects; Gas distribution; EarthquakesPrincipal Threats Facing Communities and Local Emergency Management Coordinators.
April 1992, 146 p.
Identifying Number(s): FEMA-191
Keywords: Emergency planning; Hurricanes; Radioactivity; Disasters; Floods; Tornadoes; Hazardous materials; Mitigation; Transportation; Volcanoes; Hazards; Populations; Fires; Terrorism; Communities; Wildfire; National security; United States; Droughts; Severe storms; Earthquakes