Estimation of the expected number of casualties caused by strong earthquakes

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2310-2322

  Samardjieva, Elena ^a   Badal, José ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

SEISMIC IMPACTS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; MORTALITY RISK;

EID: 0036704547     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010112     Document Type: Article

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