How Many Lives were Saved by the Evacuation before the M 7.3 Haicheng Earthquake of 1975?

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Research Article| January 01, 2014 How Many Lives were Saved by the Evacuation before the M 7.3 Haicheng Earthquake of 1975? Max Wyss; Max Wyss aWorld Agency for Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction, Grand Rue 25, Bougy‐Villars 1172, Switzerlandwyss.adh@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Zhongliang Wu Zhongliang Wu bInstitute of Geophysics China Earthquake Administration, No. 5 Minzudaxuenanlu, Haidian District, 100081 Beijing, Chinawuzl@cea-igp.ac.cn Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Max Wyss aWorld Agency for Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction, Grand Rue 25, Bougy‐Villars 1172, Switzerlandwyss.adh@gmail.com Zhongliang Wu bInstitute of Geophysics China Earthquake Administration, No. 5 Minzudaxuenanlu, Haidian District, 100081 Beijing, Chinawuzl@cea-igp.ac.cn Publisher: Seismological Society of America First Online: 14 Jul 2017 Online ISSN: 1938-2057 Print ISSN: 0895-0695 © 2014 by the Seismological Society of America Seismological Research Letters (2014) 85 (1): 126–129. https://doi.org/10.1785/0220130089 Article history First Online: 14 Jul 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Max Wyss, Zhongliang Wu; How Many Lives were Saved by the Evacuation before the M 7.3 Haicheng Earthquake of 1975?. Seismological Research Letters 2014;; 85 (1): 126–129. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220130089 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietySeismological Research Letters Search Advanced Search It is difficult to know how many fatalities and injuries in an earthquake may have been avoided by a mitigating action because the result without the mitigation can usually not be estimated with a useful reliability. The case of the evacuation before the 1975, M 7.3, Haicheng earthquake offers a rare opportunity to quantitatively estimate the number of casualties saved. We show that the computer tool QLARM has calculated the human losses in eight damaging earthquakes in China approximately correctly within 40 min, without information from the affected area. Therefore, our estimates of the numbers of casualties that would have... You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.

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