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The Federal Emergency Management Agency of United States (www.fema.gov) developed the HAZUS GIS-based tool (FEMA, 2011) which allows to estimate potential losses from several individual hazards (i.e. floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes) in order to support mitigation planning efforts. The estimated losses in HAZUS are related to physical damages to buildings (residential and commercial) and infrastructure; economic losses (lost jobs, business interruptions and reconstruction costs) and social impacts (shelter requirements, displaced households, and population exposed to hazard scenarios). However, this tool does neither allow a simultaneous assessment of multiple hazards and damages nor their interactions and cascading effects, but provides different outputs for different hazards applicable for comparisons.

See: FEMA, 2011. Getting Started with HAZUS-MH 2.1. Tech. Rep. U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Federal Emergency Management Agency.