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IMPROVED SEISMIC MONITORING - IMPROVED DECISION-MAKING
ASSESSING THE VALUE OF REDUCED UNCERTAINTY |
| By: |
Committee on the Economic Benefits of Improved Seismic Monitoring, Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics, Board on Earth Sciences & Resources |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0309096952 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780309096959 |
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| Publisher: |
NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
3 January, 2006 |
| Pages: |
196 |
| Description: |
Describes and assesses the varied economic benefits 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, and more. |
| Synopsis: |
Improved Seismic Monitoringa "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. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
National Academies Press |
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Returnable |