Mitigation lessons from the July 17, 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 160, Issue 10-11, 2003, Pages 2001-2031

  Dengler, Lori ^a   Preuss, Jane ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GeoEngineers Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Impacts; Mitigation; Recovery; Relief; Response

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; MITIGATION; MORTALITY; NATURAL DISASTER; TSUNAMI;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0141958731     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-003-2417-x     Document Type: Article

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