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Playing against Nature: Integrating Science and Economics to Mitigate Natural Hazards in an Uncertain World
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Playing against Nature: Integrating Science and Economics to Mitigate Natural Hazards in an Uncertain World

by Jerome Jerome Stein Stein, Seth Seth Stein Stein
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
278 pages
8h 26m
English
American Geophysical Union
Content preview from Playing against Nature: Integrating Science and Economics to Mitigate Natural Hazards in an Uncertain World
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Figure 1.4    (a) Seismic hazard map for Haiti produced prior to the 2010 earthquake showing maximum shaking expected to have a 10% chance of being exceeded once in 50 years, or on average once about every 500 years. (b) Map of the shaking in the 2010 earthquake. (Stein et al., 2012. Reproduced with permission of Elsevier B.V.)
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Figure 1.5    Comparison of seismic hazard maps for Haiti made before (a) and shortly after (b) the 2010 earthquake. The newer map shows a factor of four higher hazard on the fault that had recently broken in the earthquake. ...
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