Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes (1989) / Chapter Skim
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7. Indirect Losses
7. Indirect Losses
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FIRE Most foes estimates in the United States have not included losses from fire in a formal, quantitative way. While fire has not been a major factor in recent earthquakes in the United States, more than 100 ignitions occurred in the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, and a shopping center fire was the single largest loss in the 1984 Morgan Hill, California earthquake (M 6.2~.
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From the emergency planning standpoint, information concerning the expected performance of the water supply, communication, gas distribution, and highway and street systems can be used as a basis for devising emergency response plans. Postearthquake fire modeling is also useful to identify general areas of high conflagration potential (e.g., concentrations of wooden buildings)
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These include loss of production capacity in individual manufacturing facilities, lom of income to commercial enterprises where functionality is clestroyed or unpaired, the loss of jobs, economic impacts on other undamaged businesses within a region, and lodes to industry and commerce located outside the affected region but linked economically to it. In some instances, economic benefits may be associated with an earthquake, such as an influx of federal aid and the creation of new types of jobs.
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