The Federal Emergency Management Agency has released a free online tool to help community planners and other stakeholders visualize natural disaster risk levels in counties and census tracts throughout the United States. The tool could prove useful for engineers, particularly as they guide community-based hazard mitigation planning and/or help clients identify resilient project locations, says Chris D. Poland, P.E., S.E., NAE, F.SEI, M.ASCE, a consulting structural engineer and internationally recognized expert in earthquake engineering and community resource planning.
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