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"Every year, around 60,000 people die worldwide in natural disasters. The majority of the deaths are caused by building collapse in earthquakes, and the great majority occurs in the developing world. This is despite the fact that engineering solutions exist that can almost completely eliminate...
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"The event of a natural disaster, and being directly affected by it, brings a large shock to life-cycle outcomes. In addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility response may be induced as children can be used to...
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a more complete risk analysis of the net benefits of the project. This is illustrated with the earthquake vulnerability …
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The Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) was the first disaster ever recorded that included an earthquake, a tsunami, a … earthquake of magnitude 9.0 occurred in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan's Tohoku region. The quake shook the ground as …
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repercussions and human loss. The next earthquake and other large earthquakes in the East Asia region in the near future are … financial loss reduction in the public sector. The objective of this paper is to help to reduce earthquake risk through …
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The response to the January 2010 Haiti earthquake has been in the spotlight ever since the disaster, and a significant …
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In the GLDN seminar, the recovery procedures in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake and the Asian tsunami were …
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This report provides an assessment of damages and needs resulting from the earthquake that struck India on the 8m of … on key pre-earthquake data. Given that not all information is even to date available to the assessment team members, and …
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Following the magnitude (Mw) 7.8 Türkiye-Syria Earthquake on February 6, 2023, and the (Mw) 6.3 earthquake on February … estimate the impact of the earthquake on physical assets and service delivery in the most affected areas. The RDNA covers six … socioeconomic impacts of the earthquake to anticipate repercussions on the economic outlook and on the population's well-being. This …
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