The great east-Japan earthquake and devastating tsunami: An update and lessons from the past great earthquakes in Japan since 1923

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 229, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 287-299

  Ishigaki, Akemi ^a   Higashi, Hikari ^a   Sakamoto, Takako ^a,b   Shibahara, Shigeki ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disaster; Earthquake; Evacuation; Nuclear power plant; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; HUMAN; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RADIOACTIVITY; SEASHORE; TSUNAMI; VICTIM;

DISASTER PLANNING; EARTHQUAKES; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; JAPAN; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RELIEF WORK; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84877793320     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.229.287     Document Type: Article

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