Disasters, Death, and Destruction— Making Sense of Recent Calamities
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Making Sense of Recent Calamities
INTRODUCTION A disaster happens when an extreme event occurs in the context of societal vulnerability. Nowhere is the meeting of vulnerability and extreme more tangible than where the land meets the sea. This was horrifi cally apparent on 26 December 2004 when a powerful earthquake under the eastern Indian Ocean caused a massive tsunami that killed more than 280,000 people and caused billions o...
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INTRODUCTION A disaster happens when an extreme event occurs in the context of societal vulnerability. Nowhere is the meeting of vulnerability and extreme more tangible than where the land meets the sea. This was horrifi cally apparent on 26 December 2004 when a powerful earthquake under the eastern Indian Ocean caused a massive tsunami that killed more than 280,000 people and caused billions o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Oceanography
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1042-8275
DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2006.83