SGER: Household Impacts of the Nisqually Earthquake

尼斯奎利地震的家庭影响2001年2月28日尼斯奎利地震震级中等(MW=6.8)，因此提供了一个独特的机会来衡量这类事件的经济影响。该项目将通过电话调查，根据地面运动水平确定的区域随机选择家庭，收集有关家庭经济影响的系统证据。这与典型的空间标准形成鲜明对比：政治单位、邮政编码或人口普查区域。将定义三到四种类型的地面运动。调查数据将与主要影响类别相关；家庭受损；维修资金；这一事件造成的经济行为变化；缓解和备灾(如保险)的变化；以及关于家庭本身的基线经济和人口信息。这项研究的结果将包括一个关于家庭损失的大型、独特的数据库。该数据库将用于检验实际损失超过官方估计的假设。对这一差异的解释是，许多类别的损失从未上报。对未报告损失的性质和程度的洞察可能有助于公共机构对未来的灾害作出反应，并更好地评估灾前减灾投资的益处。该数据库还将提供对该区域家庭损失总额的可靠估计。这可以提供一个基线，可以将其他损失估计与之进行比较，例如，FEMA的HAZUS。

Household Impacts of the Nisqually EarthquakeThe February 28, 2001 Nisqually earthquake was moderate in magnitude (Mw = 6.8) and thus provides a unique opportunity to measure the economic impacts of an event of this type. This project will amass systematic evidence regarding the economic impacts on households through a telephone survey of randomly selected households according to zones defined by ground motion levels. This is in sharp contrast to typical spatial criteria: political units, zip codes, or census tracts. Three or four categories of ground motion will be defined. Survey data will be correlated with major categories of impact; damage at the home; financing for repairs; changes in economic behavior made as a result of this event; changes in mitigation and preparedness (e.g., insurance); and baseline economic and demographic information about the households themselves. The results of this study will include a large, unique database on household losses.The database will serve to test the hypothesis that actual losses exceeded official estimates. The explanation for the difference is that many categories of loss are never reported. Insights into the nature and extent of unreported losses may help public agencies respond to future disasters as well as better evaluate the benefits of pre-disaster mitigation investments. The database will also allos reliable estimation of the total amount of loss incurred by households in the region. This can provide a baseline against which other loss estimations can be compared, e.g., FEMA's HAZUS .