World earthquake fatalities from the past: Implications for the present and future

Natural Hazards Review

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 179-189

  Nichols, John M ^a   Beavers, James E ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Fatalities; Statistics

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURIES; CONSISTENT; DATA SETS; DEATH TOLLS; FATALITIES; MATHEMATICAL MAPPINGS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATIONS; POISSONIAN; STANDARD STATISTICAL ANALYSES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURIES; URBAN CENTERS;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EARTHQUAKES; MEASUREMENT THEORY; MODAL ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DATA SET; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; MAPPING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 54249100497     PISSN: 15276988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1527-6988(2008)9:4(179)     Document Type: Article

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