Assessment of global seismic loss based on macroeconomic indicators

Natural Hazards

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 269-283

  Chan, L S ^a   Chen, Y ^b   Chen, Q ^b   Chen, L ^b   Liu, J ^b   Dong, W ^c   Shah, H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c Risk Management Solutions Inc   (United States)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment method; Earthquake damage; Economic impact; Macroeconomics; Seismic hazard

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; MACROECONOMICS; SEISMIC HAZARD;

EID: 0032464775     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008060510137     Document Type: Article

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