Casualties and behavior of populations during earthquakes
- 1 August 1970
- journal article
- Published by Seismological Society of America (SSA) in Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
- Vol. 60 (4) , 1309-1313
- https://doi.org/10.1785/bssa0600041309
Abstract
A positive correlation is established between the time of day and the number of victims in Chilean earthquakes. This correlation is attributed to a 24-hr cycle of dwelling occupancy. The incidence of foreshocks lowers the number of casualties. These observations are of interest to earthquake engineering design and to emergency measures for the protection of human populations in earthquakes.Keywords
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- Major earthquakes and tsunamis in Chile during the period 1535 to 1955International Journal of Earth Sciences, 1970