Predicting Business Financial Losses in the 1989 Loma Prieta and 1994 Northridge Earthquakes: Implications for Loss Estimation Research
| Author(s) | Dahlhamer, James M. | |
| Author(s) | Webb, Gary R. | |
| Author(s) | Tierney, Kathleen J. | |
| Date Accessioned | 2005-03-21T23:06:10Z | |
| Date Available | 2005-03-21T23:06:10Z | |
| Publication Date | 1999 | |
| Description | Spurred in part by the rising economic costs of natural disasters, there has recently been a dramatic increase in the number of studies aimed at estimating financial losses caused by large-scale earthquakes. For example, in 1997 the journal Earthquake Spectra devoted an entire issue to this topic. Papers appearing in the special issue ranged from cost-benefit analyses of structural rehabilitation strategies (D'Ayala et al., 1997) to the development of real-time damage assessment tools Pguchi et al. 1997). In 1998 the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research published a monograph addressing the engineering and socioeconomic impacts of earthquakes (Shinozuka, Rose, and Eguchi, 1998). A primary focus of the report was on the regional economic impacts of earthquake-induced electricity lifeline disruptions. More recently, in 1999 the National Research Council Committee on Assessing the Costs of Natural Disasters published a report outlining a framework for loss estimation (National Research Council, 1999). The Committee's primary goals were to develop a framework for consistent and systematic collection of loss data from natural disasters and to build an institutional capacity for collecting such data. | en |
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| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/664 | |
| Language | en_US | |
| Publisher | Disaster Research Center | en |
| Part of Series | Preliminary Papers;282 | |
| Keywords | Northridge earthquake | en |
| Keywords | financial loss | en |
| Keywords | earthquake | en |
| Keywords | natural disaster | en |
| Title | Predicting Business Financial Losses in the 1989 Loma Prieta and 1994 Northridge Earthquakes: Implications for Loss Estimation Research | en |
| Type | Other | en |