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Improved Seismic Monitoring - Improved Decision-Making : Assessing the Value of Reduced Uncertainty, Paperback / softback Book

Improved Seismic Monitoring - Improved Decision-Making : Assessing the Value of Reduced Uncertainty Paperback / softback

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Improved Seismic Monitoring?Improved Decision-Making, describes and assesses the varied economic benefits potentially derived from modernizing and expanding seismic monitoring activities in the United States.

These benefits include more effective loss avoidance regulations and strategies, improved understanding of earthquake processes, better engineering design, more effective hazard mitigation strategies, and improved emergency response and recovery.

The economic principles that must be applied to determine potential benefits are reviewed and the report concludes that although there is insufficient information available at present to fully quantify all the potential benefits, the annual dollar costs for improved seismic monitoring are in the tens of millions and the potential annual dollar benefits are in the hundreds of millions. Table of ContentsFront MatterExecutive Summary1 Introduction2 The Role of Seismic Monitoring in Decision-Making3 Conceptual Framework for Benefit Estimation and a Taxonomy ofBenefits4 Benefits from Improved Earthquake Hazard Assessment andForecasting5 Benefits from Improved Loss Estimation Models6 Benefits from Performance-Based Engineering7 Benefits for Emergency Response and Recovery8 Integrating the Benefits--Conclusions and RecommendationsReferencesAppendix A: Excerpts from Bernknopf et al. (1993), "Societal Valueof Geologic Maps"Appendix B: Committee and Staff BiographiesAppendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations

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