Disasters and maximum entropy production

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 425, Issue , 2007, Pages 387-396

  Lomnitz, Cinna ^a   Castaños, Heriberta ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cascades of failures; Disasters; Disasters and society; Entropy

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; ENTROPY; HAZARDS;

EARTHQUAKE DISASTER; MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRINCIPLE; MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRODUCTIONS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SELF-ORGANIZE;

DISASTER PREVENTION;

DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; ENTROPY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC HAZARD;

EID: 75749120704     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2425(26)     Document Type: Article

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