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Establishing an early warning alert and response network following the Solomon Islands tsunami in 2013
PROBLEM On 6 February 2013, an 8.0 magnitude earthquake generated a tsunami that struck the Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands, killing 10 people and displacing over 4700. APPROACH A post-disaster assessment of the risk of epidemic disease transmission recommended the implementation of an early warning alert and response network (EWARN) to rapidly detect, assess and respond to potential outb...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0096-3941
DOI: 10.1029/2007eo150008