Civilian monitoring video records for earthquake intensity: A potentially unbiased online information source of macro-seismology

Natural Hazards

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1765-1781

  Yang, Xiaolin ^a,b   Wu, Zhongliang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Earthquake Administration of Shaanxi Province   (China)

Author keywords

Civilian monitoring video; Intensity; Media bias; Public understanding; The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; INTERNET; MASS MEDIA; MONITORING; SEISMOLOGY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; VIDEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84871930698     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0447-3     Document Type: Article

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