Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes (1989) / Chapter Skim
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Executive Summary
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This report focuses primarily on loss estimates of the type funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
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As for motion-damage-Ioss relationships, valuable information of an empirical nature has been assembled for certain types of buildings in California through the combined efforts of the Insurance Services Office and the large-scale loss estimation projects of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Moreover, the accuracy of estimates will improve only slowly in the future, since a major source for these uncertainties is the very spareness of data on Tosses during actual earthquakes, as well as the intrinsically difficult inventory problem. Despite these limitations, Toss studies properly conducted and used with an understanding of the methods' strengths and limitations can be of great value in planning, initiating, and updating programs for earthquake hazard reduction and in emergency planning.
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has also considered the possibility of developing techniques and an operational capability to estimate postearthquake Tosses within hours after an actual earthquake event, without field reconnaissance, as a basis for better action in disaster response and financial assistance. The panel has little enthusiasm for the prospects of establishing a reliable capability of this kind, because of the large uncertainties in loss predictions and because rapid compilation of actual losses is feasible.
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~ Document precisely how loss studies have been used in hazard reduction and emergency planning efforts. ~ hnprove the process of collecting loss data of statistical significance immediately after significant earthquakes.
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