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Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes (1989) / Chapter Skim
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2. User Needs
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... Nonetheless the undertaking yielded considerable insight into the needs and thoughts of those who must ultimately use the results of loss estimates. Working Paper B reports this study.
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... On the other hand, those making Toss estimates fear legal or political reprisals if they are specific in identifying potentially dangerous structures, and consider it essential that they preserve anonymity by lumping together considerable numbers of structures and evaluating Tosses only for such groups. The Scenario Earthquake The user group indicated that Toss studies should focus on a relatively probable and yet damaging earthquake, and it was deemed important that losses be estimated separately for different times of the day.
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... A recent trend has been the shifting of costs of earthquake programs from the federal government to lower levels, or in other words increasing state and local cost sharing. However, the user group said that funds available for such studies at state and local levels are generally inadequate.
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