Real-time seismology and earthquake hazard mitigation

Nature

Volumn 390, Issue 6659, 1997, Pages 461-464

  Kanamori, Hiroo ^a   Hauksson, Egill ^a   Heaton, Thomas ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CODE; EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMOLOGY;

COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EARTHQUAKE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSOR; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0031440265     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/37280     Document Type: Review

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