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Speeding earthquake disaster relief

Carl Mortensen·Carolyn Donlin·Robert A. Page·Peter Ward
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In coping with recent multibillion-dollar earthquake disasters, scientists and emergency managers have found new ways to speed and improve relief efforts. This progress is founded on the rapid availability of earthquake information from seismograph networks.

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90° N90° S · 180° W ← longitude → 180° E
Source-reported bounding extent: 32.53° to 42.01° latitude; -124.41° to -114.13° longitude. This indicates report coverage, not an exact sampling location. View area on OpenStreetMap.

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Carl Mortensen, Carolyn Donlin, Robert A. Page, Peter Ward. 1995. Speeding earthquake disaster relief. https://doi.org/10.3133/fs09795

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