Buildings as weapons of mass destruction

Science

Volumn 341, Issue 6146, 2013, Pages 618-619

  Bilham, Roger ^a   Gaur, Vinod ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; CONSTRUCTION METHOD; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC ZONE; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; URBAN AREA;

ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; EARTHQUAKE; HUMAN; MASS DISASTER; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; REVIEW; SURFACE PROPERTY; WEAPON; ARTICLE; ASIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISASTER; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRUCTURE COLLAPSE;

SOUTH ASIA;

ASIA; BUILDING CODES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRUCTURE COLLAPSE;

EID: 84881223167     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1238476     Document Type: Review

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