Earthquake loss estimation of residential buildings in Pakistan

Natural Hazards

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1889-1955

  Ahmad, Naveed ^a,b   Ali, Qaisar ^a   Crowley, Helen ^c   Pinho, Rui ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

^b SCUOLA UNIVERSITARIA SUPERIORE IUSS PAVIA   (Italy)

^c GEM Foundation   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Disaster preparedness planning; Disaster risk reduction; Earthquake loss modelling; Seismic risk mitigation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905678761     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-014-1174-8     Document Type: Article

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