Kobe disaster divides earthquake researchers
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Disaster Mitigation Engineering -the Kobe Earthquake Disaster
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/373373a0