Human Casualties in Earthquakes : Progress in Modelling and Mitigation /

Human Casualties in Earthquakes : Progress in Modelling and Mitigation /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Spence, Robin. (Editor), So, Emily. (Editor), Scawthorn, Charles. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Series:Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 29
Subjects:
Natural disasters.
Natural Hazards.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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