SGER: Household Impacts of the Nisqually Earthquake

尼斯夸利地震对家庭的影响2001年2月28日的尼斯夸利地震震级中等（Mw = 6.8），因此提供了一个独特的机会来衡量这种类型的事件的经济影响。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住户，收集有关对住户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。三个或四个类别的地面运动将被定义。调查数据将与影响的主要类别相关联;房屋损坏;维修资金;由于这一事件而造成的经济行为变化;缓解和准备的变化（例如，保险）;以及关于家庭本身的基线经济和人口统计信息。这项研究的结果将包括一个关于家庭损失的庞大而独特的数据库，该数据库将用来检验实际损失超过官方估计的假设。造成这种差异的原因是，许多类别的损失从未报告。深入了解未报告损失的性质和程度可能有助于公共机构应对未来的灾害，并更好地评估灾前减灾投资的效益。该数据库还将对该地区家庭遭受的损失总额作出可靠的估计。这可以提供一个基线，可以与其他损失估计进行比较，例如，联邦应急管理局的危险。

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 .