Earthquake impact scale

Natural Hazards Review

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 125-139

  Wald, D J ^a   Jaiswal, K S ^a   Marano, K D ^a   Bausch, D ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b FEMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Earthquakes; Emergency services; Hazards; Impact scale; PAGER

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION LEVEL; BUILDING COLLAPSE; BUILDING PRACTICES; CASUALTY RATE; CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE; DUAL APPROACH; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT; EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE; EMERGENCY SERVICE; ESTIMATED COSTS; IMPACT SCALE; LOSS ESTIMATES; PAGER; PRIORITIZATION; REGIONAL IMPACTS; RESPONSE LEVELS; SOCIETAL IMPACTS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY MEASURES;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION; ESTIMATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BUILDING; COLLAPSE; DEVELOPING WORLD; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ESTIMATION METHOD; INJURY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRIORITIZATION; THRESHOLD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051622695     PISSN: 15276988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000040     Document Type: Article

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