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 |
