Preliminary quantitative assessment of earthquake casualties and damages

Natural Hazards

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 353-374

  Badal, José ^a   Vázquez Prada, Miguel ^a   González, Álvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Economic cost; Human losses; Macroseismic field; Population density; Prognostic

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; MORTALITY; SEISMIC HAZARD;

EID: 13844307338     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-004-3656-6     Document Type: Article

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