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SAR
see Search and Rescue

Search and Rescue (SAR)
The first activities normally conducted following a disaster, the intent being to locate disaster victims and to ensure their physical safety. SAR activities can include locating victims trapped in collapsed structures, removing victims from perilous locations surrounded or threatened by flood waters, or evacuating families or even whole communities from areas subjected to secondary effects of disasters.

Seismic
Pertaining to earthquake activities.

Seismicity
The worldwide or local distribution of earthquakes in space and time; a general term for the number of earthquakes in a unit of time, or for a relative earthquake activity.

Surveillance
An epidemiological survey or the health monitoring of the affected community.