Human Casualties in Earthquakes

Preface.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Earthquakes: an Epidemiological Perspective on Patterns and Trends.- 3. Earthquakes Casualty Research and Public Education.- 4. Disaster Casualties - Accounting for Economic Impacts and Diurnal Variation.- 5. A Global Earthquake Building Damage and Casualty Database.- 6. Earthquake Casualty Models within the USGS Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) System.- 7. Loss Estimation Module in the Second Generation Software QLARM.- 8. Earthquake Casualties Estimation In Emergency Mode.- 9. Estimating Casualties for the Southern California Shakeout.- 10. Casualty Estimation due to Earthquakes: Injury Structure and Dynamics.- 11. Seismic Vulnerability and Collapse Probability Assessment of Buildings in Greece.- 12. Seismic Casualty Evaluation- the Italian Model an application to the L'Aquila 2009 Event.- 13. Mortality and Morbidity Risk in the L'Aquila, Italy Earthquake of 6 April 2009 and Lessons to be Learned.- 14. Major Factors controlling Earthquake Casualties as revealed via a Diversified Questionnaire Survey in Ojiya City for the Mid-Niigata Earthquake.- 15. Advances in Casualty Modelling facilitated by the USGS Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) System.- 16. Challenges in Collating Earthquake Casualty Field Data.- 17. Estimating Human Losses Earthquake Models: A Discussion.- 18. Trends in the Casualty Ratio of Injured to Fatalities in Earthquakes.- 19. Study of Damage to the Human Body caused by Earthquakes: Development of a Mannequin for the Thoracic Compression experiments and Cyber Dummy using Finite Element Method.- 20. A Different View on Human Vulnerability to Earthquakes: lessons from risk perception studies.- Index.