Tennessee Code Title 49. Education § 49-8-602

(1) Accurate, immediate reports for individuals, governmental agencies and the news media on the occurrence of earthquakes;

(2) Background information on earthquakes for individuals, civic groups, schools, governmental agencies, the news media and others;

(3) Research related to the causes and consequences of local earthquakes, to develop the information as the precise locations of earthquakes, magnitude-frequency relationships, magnitude-duration relationships, source spectra studies, attenuation studies, bedrock structures studies and behavior of foundation materials studies;

(4) Studies of the desirability of earthquake resistant construction;

(5) Advice to governmental bodies, insurance groups and others on the methods and feasibility of reducing earthquake damage; and

(6) Earthquake prediction.