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Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes Panel Report (1989) / Chapter Skim
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... Nonetheless the undertaking yielded considerable insight into the needs and thoughts of those who ultimately must use the results of loss estimates. The user group did not consider previous studies to have been as useful as they wished.
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... Specificity Versus [lability Local officials also would like to know precisely which buildings or other facilities are most susceptible to damage, so that mitigative actions can be targeted. On the other hand, those making loss 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 losses only for such groups.
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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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