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Integrated Earthquake Risk Evaluation for Mega-Thrust Earthquakes

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Earthquake Insurance and Earthquake Risk Management

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA), 2010
ABSTRACT The Wenchuan earthquake is the largest devastating earthquake striking China since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. In this catastrophe, loss payments were mainly from the government and public endowment. The insurance industry is expected to take more responsibility in the future, since earthquake insurance is one of the most effective and ...
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Earthquake risk assessment

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2017
The assessment of earthquake risk in portfolio, urban or regional scale constitutes an important element in the mitigation of economic and social losses due to earthquakes, planning of immediate post-earthquake actions as well as for the development of earthquake insurance schemes.
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Forecasting earthquakes and earthquake risk

International Journal of Forecasting, 1995
This paper reviews issues, models, and methodologies arising out of the problems of predicting earthquakes and forecasting earthquake risk. The emphasis is on statistical methods which attempt to quantify the probability of an earthquake occurring within specified time, space, and magnitude windows.
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Reducing Earthquake Risk

Science, 2013
How can a higher level of earthquake preparedness be achieved, particularly in developing nations?
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EARTHQUAKE RISK IN AUSTRALIA

Australian Planner, 2010
Australia experiences relatively few earthquakes, and they are spread over a wide area, so earthquake hazard is quite low.
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Earthquake Risk in Turkey

Science, 2013
Recent efforts are helping to increase earthquake preparedness in a region of high earthquake risk.
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Earthquake risk and insurance

Environmetrics, 1993
AbstractOur concern is with protection against natural catastrophes through financial insurance. Development of appropriate premium rates requires consideration of a wide variety of variables entering into the occurrence of the disaster, and a broad range of scientific and statistical investigations results.
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