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urban resilience. The city of Mymensingh is located in the most earthquake vulnerable zone of Bangladesh and surrounded by … paramount importance to assess the earthquake vulnerabilities of Mymensingh city and this research is envisioned to evaluate … systematic dimensions. The MCDM techniques of Analytical Hierarchy Process and Weighted Linear Combination coupled with GIS …
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The October 2005 earthquake triggered several thousand landslides in the Lesser Himalaya of Kashmir in northern … baseline landsliding frequency over the 4 years, most of the new landslides were likely triggered by the 2005 earthquake and … season reveal that much of the ongoing landsliding occurred along rivers and roads, and the extensive earthquake …
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This article presents a geographical information system (GIS) which manages geotechnical data obtained from detailed … information (e.g. the depth of the “Athens schist” head). In addition, a methodology for an automated GIS-aided seismic …
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different disaster management scenarios as measured in terms of saving additional lives. The earthquake-induced damages to … the model automatically via vector GIS data layers and the entire model is vector-based. A comparison between the results … blockages is significant after an earthquake, and therefore, the potential capacity of the street-openers demonstrated in the …
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way the Munich Re dealt with the challenge of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. …
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This paper explores the effects of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on the wages of people in the area of the … earthquake over the 17 years after its occurrence and identified which part of the wage distribution has been most affected by … shows that the negative impact of the earthquake still affects the mean wages of male workers. Second, the DFL decomposition …
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The rapid growth over recent decades of the impact of natural disasters on economies, especially in vulnerable areas, urges stakeholders to promote innovative solutions involving risk transfers that account for the new risk exposures. These proposed solutions are designed to optimize and...
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