1The aftershock warning system consists of a base station and 8 remote stations. A self-contained broadcasting system sends signals to pagers within 60 miles of the base station. The pagers provide as much as a few seconds warning of potentially hazardous shear-wave arrivals from aftershocks. The pager signals can be used as switches for either automatic response or to emit noise and flashing light.
2In this case, the Japanese request for U.S. Government assistance was delayed for more than a month following the event.
3Previous studies have emphasized the need for systematic collection and compilation of economic impacts (see NRC, 1999).
4Public Law 101-614, National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program
(NEHRP) Reauthorization Act, Section 11 (b), November 1990.
5For comparison, Section 404 currently provides between 15 and 20 percent times the 406 expenditures for hazard mitigation grants. For the Northridge earthquake this amounted to about $722 million.
6FEMA currently reports to Congress on hazard-mitigation grant projects funded by Stafford Act Section 404 even though these projects are selected by the state for which the disaster has been declared and approved by FEMA before expenditure.
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