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A Comprehensive Numerical Model for Reservoir-Induced Earthquake Risk Assessment. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel), 2023
Peng X, Zhao R, Deng K.
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Earthquake propensity and the politics of mortality prevention [PDF]

Governments can significantly reduce earthquake mortality by implementing and enforcing quake-proof construction regulation. The authors examine why many governments do not.
Keefer, Philip, Neumayer, Eric, Plumper, Thomas   +2 more
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Earthquake risk [PDF]

Nature, 1989
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New Zealand contributions to the global earthquake model’s earthquake consequences database (GEMECD) [PDF]

, 2015
The Global Earthquake Model’s (GEM) Earthquake Consequences Database (GEMECD) aims to develop, for the first time, a standardised framework for collecting and collating geocoded consequence data induced by primary and secondary seismic hazards to ...
Bocchini, G., Giovinazzi, S, Ingham, J. M., Kin, g. A., Pampanin, S., Pomonis, A.   +5 more
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Seismic vulnerability assessment: Methodological elements and applications to the case of Romania [PDF]

This paper is intended to present some studies undertaken in order to develop a seismic vulnerability estimation system to fit the needs of development of earthquake scenarios and of development of an integrated disaster risk management system for ...
Borcia, I. S., Francis, S., Georgescu, E. S., Mohindra, R., Pomonis, A., Sandi, H.   +5 more
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Policy Analysis for Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons From Environmental Policy Analysis [PDF]

, 2006
How should agencies and legislatures evaluate possible policies to mitigate the impacts of earthquakes, floods, hurricanes and other natural hazards?
Ekman, Viktor, Moen, Jesper
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Impacts of Earthquakes on Energy Security in the Eurasian Economic Union: Resilience of the Electricity Transmission Networks in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan

Geosciences, 2019
In our research, we focus on the reliability of the interconnected electricity supply system of three countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU)—Russia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
Dmitrii Iakubovskii, Nadejda Komendantova, Elena Rovenskaya, Dmitry Krupenev, Denis Boyarkin   +4 more
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Machine-learning detection of slow slip events in western Shikoku, Japan, through joint analysis of seismic and geodetic data

Earth, Planets and Space
Over the past decade, short-term slow slip events (S-SSEs) have been detected along the entire Nankai Trough using Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data.
Kazuki Ohtake, Aitaro Kato, Yutaro Okada, Takuya Nishimura   +3 more
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Identifying and prioritizing the factors affecting the increase of earthquake risk in worn-out urban areas with a combined approach of fuzzy Delphi technique and BMW model [PDF]

تحقیقات کاربردی علوم جغرافیایی, 2020
Today, the vulnerability of cities, especially the old and worn-out tissues to earthquakes, has become a global issue for experts in various fields. This situation has become more acute in countries with dangerous natural structures, including Iran, in ...
Ehsan Arkani, Hossein Hatami Nejad, Soheil Qare   +2 more
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Haiti Earthquake January 2010: What Actions and Policies Can the Government of Haiti Implement to Improve Emergency Management Response [PDF]

, 2011
In 2010, Haiti experienced a devastating earthquake that destroyed much of its capital city and the governmental offices that should have guided the response to the disaster.
Cohen, Steve
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