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HAZUS-MH Best Practices:HAZUS-MH Used in Support of Utah Seismic Safety Legislation
The State of Utah has recently taken important steps to reduce the vulnerability of schools to damaging earthquakes, as well as addressing its Unreinforced Masonry (URM) building stock. HAZUS-MH has played an important role in these initiatives. The model has sharpened the focus on the vulnerability of schools in this region to damaging earthquakes. The HAZUS-MH findings and supporting analysis have drawn attention once again to the vulnerability of URMs to damaging earthquakes in the Wasatch Front. In light of these findings, Joint Resolution 7, passed in February of 2008, states that “a major seismic event could result in catastrophic loss of life, property and business in the state” and calls for a state-wide inventory of public URMs. This resolution calls for an inventory of structures. It also references the important role of the Utah Seismic Safety Commission in providing technical and scientific support for this critically important initiative.
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