Social vulnerability assessment for mitigation of local earthquake risk in Los Angeles County

Natural Hazards

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1341-1355

  Noriega, Gabriela R ^a,b   Ludwig, Lisa Grant ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Institute for Hazards Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake risk; Emergency management; Hazard mitigation; HAZUS; Social vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; MITIGATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; VULNERABILITY;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867233054     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0301-7     Document Type: Article

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