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• 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: Economic factors; California; Hurricanes; San Francisco Bay; United States; Floods; Hazards; Calculation; Computer programs; Modeling; Losses; Emergency management; Earthquakes

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

• Using HAZUS-MH for Risk Assessment: How-To Guide. HAZIS-MH Risk Assessment and User Group Series.
  August 2004, 226 p.
  Identifying Number(s): FEMA-433
  Keywords: Emergency plans; Risk assessment; Hurricanes; US FEMA; HAZards United States - Multi-Hazard (HAZUS-MH); Project planning; Maps; Disasters; Floods; Hazards; Computer programs; Mitigation planning; Earthquakes

• Engineering and Organizational Issues Before, During and After Hurricane Katrina: Damage to Engineered Buildings and Lifelines from Wind, Storm Surge and Debris in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina. Volume 4: Buildings.
  Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Buffalo, NY.; National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.; Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC., August 13, 2007, 66 p.
  Identifying Number(s): MCEER-07-SP03
  Keywords: Recovery efforts; Disaster resilient communities; Multi-hazard perspectives; Debris; Hurricanes; Structural performance; Wind loads; Multidisciplinary approach; Damage mitigation; Engineered structures; Buildings; Physical engineered systems; Storm surges; Hurricane Katrina; Lifelines; Reconnaissance efforts; Response efforts

• Kafali, C.; Grigoriu, M.
  System Performance Under Multi-Hazard Environments.
  Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Buffalo, NY.; National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., March 4, 2008, 250 p.
  Identifying Number(s): MCEER-08-0006
  Keywords: System performance; Probabilistic models; Natural disasters; Hurricanes; Ground accelerations; Structural systems; Performance assessments; Design alternatives; Wind velocities; Multi-hazard environments; Nonstructural systems; Earthquakes

• Hurricanes Iwa, Alicia, and Diana - Common Themes, a Report of the Committee on Natural Disasters, 1984.
  National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., January 1985, 38 p.
  Keywords: Hurricanes; Landslides; Volcanoes; Hurricane Diana; Disasters; Tornadoes; Hurricane Iwa; Warning systems; Hurricane Alicia; Earthquakes

• Roshko, A.
  Wind Loads on Structures: Summary Report on a Conference Held at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, December 18-19, 1970.
  National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., July 1971, 146 p.
  Identifying Number(s): TTU-WERC-1
  Keywords: Wind pressure; Hurricanes; Wind loads; Buildings; Tornadoes; Meetings; Wind tunnels; Structural analysis

• Confronting 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; Earthquakes

• Nalivkin, D. V.
  Hurricanes, Storms and Tornadoes: Geographic Characteristics and Geological Activity.
  cJanuary 1982, 609 p.
  Identifying Number(s): TT-75-52013
  Keywords: Hurricanes; Tornadoes; Ocean currents; Storms; Geography; Sedimentation; Meteorology; Marine meteorology; Air currents; Geological faults; Marine microorganisms; Wind (Meteorology); Air water interactions; Foreign technology; Atmospheric circulation; Geology; Translations; Environmental transport; Air land interactions; Earthquakes

• Principal 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