Earthquake early warning as a tool for improving society's resilience and crisis response

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 267-270

  Gasparini, Paolo ^a,b   Manfredi, Gaetano ^a,b   Zschau, Jochen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Ctro Regionale di Competenza Analisi e Monitoraggio del Rischio Ambientale of the Campania district   (Italy)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALL-HAZARDS; CRISIS RESPONSE; DECISION MAKING SUPPORT SYSTEM; DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS; EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING; EARTHQUAKE FORECASTING; EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT; EDUCATION AND TRAINING; IN-BUILDINGS; LEGAL PROBLEMS; LOW PROBABILITY; METROPOLITAN AREA; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PREVENTIVE ACTION; RISK REDUCTIONS; SHORT TERM; URBAN POPULATION;

BUILDING CODES; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; RETROFITTING; SEISMIC WAVES;

EARTHQUAKES;

BUILDING CODE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC RETROFIT; STANDARD (REFERENCE);

JAPAN;

EID: 78649447517     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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