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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2006. Improved Seismic Monitoring - Improved Decision-Making: Assessing the Value of Reduced Uncertainty. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11327.
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Appendix C
Acronyms and Abbreviations


AEL

Annual Earthquake Loss

AELR

Annual Earthquake Loss Ratio

ANSS

Advanced National Seismic System


BCA

Benefit-Cost Analysis

BSSC

Building Seismic Safety Council


CalTrans

California Transportation Department

CEA

California Earthquake Authority

CEPEC

California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council

CISN

California Integrated Seismic Network

COSMOS

Consortium of Organizations for Strong-Motion Observation Systems

CPI

Consumer Price Index

CSMIP

California Strong-Motion Instrumentation Program

CWB

Central Weather Bureau


DOE

Department of Energy

DOT

Department of Transportation


EERI

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute

EMS

Emergency Medical Services

EP

Exceedance Probability


FEMA

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2006. Improved Seismic Monitoring - Improved Decision-Making: Assessing the Value of Reduced Uncertainty. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11327.
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GIS

Geographic Information System

GPS

Global Positioning System


HAZMAT

Hazardous Materials


IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers


LADWP

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power


MCEER

Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research


NEES

Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

NEHRP

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program

NEIC

National Earthquake Information Center

NIBS

National Institute for Building Sciences

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NRC

National Research Council

NSF

National Science Foundation

NSS

National Seismic System


OMB

Office of Management and Budget


PBO

Plate Boundary Observatory

PEER

Pacific Earthquake Research Center

PG&E

Pacific Gas and Electric


SAFOD

San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth

SCEC

Southern California Earthquake Center

SEAOC

Structural Engineers Association of California


URM

Unreinforced masonry building

USGS

U.S. Geological Survey

USNRC

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

USNSN

U.S. National Seismic Network


WGCEP

Working Group on California Earthquake Probabilities

WWSSN

Worldwide Standardized Seismograph Network

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2006. Improved Seismic Monitoring - Improved Decision-Making: Assessing the Value of Reduced Uncertainty. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11327.
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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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