The 2011 eastern Japan great earthquake disaster: Overview and comments

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 34-42

  Norio, Okada ^a   Ye, Tao ^b   Kajitani, Yoshio ^a   Shi, Peijun ^b   Tatano, Hirokazu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

2011 Eastern Japan Earthquake; earthquake tsunami disaster chain; Fukushima nuclear crisis; impact and response

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865773962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20950055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13753-011-0004-9     Document Type: Article

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