Human Casualties in Earthquakes : Progress in Modelling and Mitigation /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2011. |
| Colección: | Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Earthquakes: an Epidemiological Perspective on Patterns and Trends
- 3. Earthquakes Casualty Research and Public Education
- 4. Disaster Casualties - Accounting for Economic Impacts and Diurnal Variation
- 5. A Global Earthquake Building Damage and Casualty Database
- 6. Earthquake Casualty Models within the USGS Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) System
- 7. Loss Estimation Module in the Second Generation Software QLARM
- 8. Earthquake Casualties Estimation In Emergency Mode
- 9. Estimating Casualties for the Southern California Shakeout
- 10. Casualty Estimation due to Earthquakes: Injury Structure and Dynamics
- 11. Seismic Vulnerability and Collapse Probability Assessment of Buildings in Greece
- 12. Seismic Casualty Evaluation- the Italian Model an application to the L'Aquila 2009 Event
- 13. Mortality and Morbidity Risk in the L'Aquila, Italy Earthquake of 6 April 2009 and Lessons to be Learned
- 14. Major Factors controlling Earthquake Casualties as revealed via a Diversified Questionnaire Survey in Ojiya City for the Mid-Niigata Earthquake
- 15. Advances in Casualty Modelling facilitated by the USGS Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) System
- 16. Challenges in Collating Earthquake Casualty Field Data
- 17. Estimating Human Losses Earthquake Models: A Discussion
- 18. Trends in the Casualty Ratio of Injured to Fatalities in Earthquakes
- 19. Study of Damage to the Human Body caused by Earthquakes: Development of a Mannequin for the Thoracic Compression experiments and Cyber Dummy using Finite Element Method
- 20. A Different View on Human Vulnerability to Earthquakes: lessons from risk perception studies
- Index.