The earthquake readiness scale: The development of a valid and reliable unifactorial measure

Natural Hazards

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-29

  Spittal, Matthew J ^a,b   Walkey, Frank H ^a   McClure, John ^a   Siegert, Richard J ^a   Ballantyne, Kimberley E ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Calibration; Earthquake readiness measure; Mitigation preparedness; Scale scores

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; MITIGATION;

EID: 33746285871     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-005-2369-9     Document Type: Article

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