Strengthening Earthquake Resilience: Faster Recovery After Disasters.
This Act aims to enhance public safety by ensuring faster restoration of essential services following an earthquake. It mandates a national risk assessment to pinpoint weaknesses in community preparedness across the country. It introduces new standards focused on ensuring that critical infrastructure, such as power and water, can return to functional capacity quickly after a disaster.
Key points
Mandatory national earthquake risk assessment to identify gaps in local community preparedness and resilience efforts.
New building and operational standards focused on rapid functional recovery and reoccupancy of critical lifeline infrastructure (e.g., transport, utilities) after seismic events.
Improved seismic monitoring systems through the integration of real-time satellite and geodetic network data for better warnings and data collection.
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