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January 12, 2007
For the Science News subscribers
Posted to Author: Vranes, K. | Disasters
Sid Perkins of Science News did a nice little write up of the poster I presented at AGU. Unfortunately it's moneywalled, but if you get the paper copy or have e-access it's on page 14 of the Jan 6, 2007 issue.
The poster and SN write-up cover what is in a paper I currently have under review at Natural Hazards Review on earthquake damages. As I teaser I'll tell you this: it looks like quakes do about $2.5B in annual average damages in the U.S., which is far less (by about a third) than the catastrophe models (HAZUS) estimate.
Comments
How does that compare to Japan, or Turkey?
Posted by: Lab Lemming at January 15, 2007 03:01 AM
LL -- I haven't undertaken the international comparisons yet ... waiting on some potential collaborators.
Posted by: kevin v at January 15, 2007 10:53 AM