Improved Seismic Monitoring - Improved Decision-Making:

Assessing the Value of Reduced Uncertainty

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Publication Year:2006

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Committee on the Economic Benefits of Improved Seismic Monitoring, Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics, National Research Council
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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, ...
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Front Matter	i-xii
Executive Summary	1-8	(skim)
1 Introduction	9-41	(skim)
2 The Role of Seismic Monitoring in Decision-Making	42-61	(skim)
3 Conceptual Framework for Benefit Estimation and a Taxonomy of Benefits	62-76	(skim)
4 Benefits from Improved Earthquake Hazard Assessment and Forecasting	77-104	(skim)
5 Benefits from Improved Loss Estimation Models	105-115	(skim)
6 Benefits from Performance-Based Engineering	116-131	(skim)
7 Benefits for Emergency Response and Recovery	132-143	(skim)
8 Integrating the Benefits--Conclusions and Recommendations	144-158	(skim)
References	159-166	(skim)
Appendix A: Excerpts from Bernknopf et al. (1993), “Societal Value of Geologic Maps”	167-178	(skim)
Appendix B: Committee and Staff Biographies	179-181	(skim)
Appendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations	182-184	(skim)

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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.

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Assessing the Value of Reduced Uncertainty

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