Emergency Response: Lessons Learned from the Kobe Earthquake
| Title: | Emergency Response: Lessons Learned from the Kobe Earthquake |
| Author: | Tierney, Kathleen J.; Goltz, James D. |
| Description: | The Kobe earthquake of January 17, 1995 was the most devastating natural disaster to strike Japan since the Great Kanto earthquake and fire of 1923. A total of 6,279 persons died as a result of the earthquake; nearly 90% of the deaths occurred as a direct result of building collapse, and the remainder were due largely to the fires that broke out following the earthquake. |
| URI: | http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/handle/19716/202 |
| Date: | 1997 |
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