National Earthquake Resilience: Research, Implementation, and Outreach (2011)
Chapter: Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations
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 |
