Appendix F
Acronyms and Abbreviations
AEL |
Annualized Earthquake Loss |
AELR |
Annualized Earthquake Loss Ratios |
ALA |
American Lifelines Alliance |
ANSS |
Advanced National Seismic System |
ARRA |
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act |
ASCE |
American Society of Civil Engineers |
ATC |
Applied Technology Council |
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BSSC |
Building Seismic Safety Council |
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CARRI |
Community and Regional Resilience Institute |
CDMS |
Comprehensive Data Management System |
CGE |
Computable General Equilibrium |
CISN |
California Integrated Seismic Network |
CLEANER |
Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research |
CREW |
Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup |
CUREE |
Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering |
CUSEC |
Central U.S. Earthquake Consortium |
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DELM |
Direct Economic Loss Modules |
DHS |
Department of Homeland Security |
DOGAMI |
Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries |
DRC |
Southwest Indiana Disaster Resistant Community Corporation |
DSER |
direct static economic resilience |
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EERI |
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute |
EEW |
earthquake early warning |
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FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency |
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GEER |
Geotechnical Extreme Event Reconnaissance Association |
GIS |
Geographic Information System |
GPS |
Global Positioning System |
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HAZUS |
FEMA’s Hazards U.S. |
HAZUS-MH |
Hazards U.S.-Multi-Hazard |
HUGs |
HAZUS User Groups |
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I-O |
Input-Output |
IDFBS |
Indiana Department of Fire and Building Services |
IELM |
Indirect Economic Loss Modules |
IIPLR |
Insurance Institute for Property Loss Reduction |
InSAR |
Interferometic Synthetic Aperture Radar |
ISDR |
The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction |
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LFE |
Learning from Earthquakes program, managed by EERI |
LiDAR |
Light Detection and Ranging |
LTER |
Long-Term Ecological Research |
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MAE |
Mid-America Earthquake Center |
MCEER |
Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research |
MP |
Mathematical programming |
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NCSA |
National Center for Supercomputer Applications |
NEES |
Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation |
NEHRP |
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program |
NEIC |
The National Earthquake Information Center |
NEON |
National Ecological Observatory Network |
NEPEC |
National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council |
NGA |
Next Generation Attenuation |
NHRAIC |
Natural Hazards Research Applications and Information Center |
NIBS |
National Institute of Building Sciences |
NIPP |
Department of Homeland Security’s Infrastructure Protection Program |
NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NRC |
National Research Council |
NSF |
National Science Foundation |
NSTC |
National Science and Technology Council |
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OES |
California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services |
OpenSees |
Open System for Earthquake Engineering Simulation |
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PEER |
Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center |
PGA |
Peak Ground Acceleration |
PIMS |
Post-earthquake Information Management System |
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R&D |
research and development |
RAVON |
Resiliency and Vulnerability Observatory Network |
ROVER |
Rapid Observation of Vulnerability and Estimation of Risk |
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SEAW |
Structural Engineers Association of Washington |
SPUR |
San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association—Resilient City Initiative |
STEP |
Short-Term Earthquake Probability |
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TCLEE |
Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering |
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UCERF2 |
Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast—Version 2 |
USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
URM |
unreinforced masonry |