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Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations
Pages 261-264

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... 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 BSSC Building Seismic Safety Council 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 DELM Direct Economic Loss Modules DHS Department of Homeland Security DOGAMI Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries 261
From page 262...
... 262 APPENDIX F DRC Southwest Indiana Disaster Resistant Community Corporation DSER direct static economic resilience EERI Earthquake Engineering Research Institute EEW earthquake early warning FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency GEER Geotechnical Extreme Event Reconnaissance Association GIS Geographic Information System GPS Global Positioning System HAZUS FEMA's Hazards U.S. HAZUS-MH Hazards U.S.-Multi-Hazard HUGs HAZUS User Groups 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 LFE Learning from Earthquakes program, managed by EERI LiDAR Light Detection and Ranging LTER Long-Term Ecological Research MAE Mid-America Earthquake Center MCEER Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research MP Mathematical programming 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
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... 263 APPENDIX F 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 OES California Governor's Office of Emergency Services OpenSees Open System for Earthquake Engineering Simulation PEER Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center PGA Peak Ground Acceleration PIMS Post-earthquake Information Management System R&D research and development RAVON Resiliency and Vulnerability Observatory Network ROVER Rapid Observation of Vulnerability and Estimation of Risk SEAW Structural Engineers Association of Washington SPUR San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association -- Resilient City Initiative STEP Short-Term Earthquake Probability TCLEE Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering UCERF2 Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast -- Version 2 USGS U.S. Geological Survey URM unreinforced masonry

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