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- Title
- Natural Disaster Studies. Volume 5. The March 5, 1987, Ecuador Earthquakes: Mass Wasting and Socioeconomic Effects.
- File
- PB93186419.pdf
- Author(s)
- Chung, R. M.
- Source
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC.; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Rockville, MD.; National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., January 1991, 177 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- ISBN-0-309-04444-8
- Abstract
- Contents: Introduction; General Geology of Northeastern Ecuador; Tectonics and Seismicity; Intensity and Damage Distribution; Mass Wasting and Flooding; Effects on Lifelines; Local-Level Economic and Social Consequences; Organizational Interaction in Response and Recovery; and Appendixes.
- Keywords
- Structures; Socioeconomic conditions; Damage assessment; Natural disaster studies; Tectonics; Emergency planning; Flooding; Geological surveys; Seismic epicenter; Disasters; Organizations; Response; Highways; Pipelines; Earthquakes; Ecuador