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Electromagnetic Disturbances Associated With Earthquakes: An

... amplitude of the peak decreases as the frequency increases. No signal is seen at frequencies > 800 Hz in this case. As was explained before, the level increase observed after 2 1.OO UT is not related to the seismic activity, as it can be observed each time the satellite enters in the midlatitude zon ...
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Earthquake casualty estimation



Recent advances are improving the speed and accuracy of loss estimates immediately after earthquakes (within less than an hour) so that injured people may be rescued more efficiently. After major and large earthquakes, rescue agencies and civil defense managers rapidly need quantitative estimates of the extent of the potential disaster, at a time when information from the affected area may not yet have reached the outside world. For the injured below the rubble every minute counts.To rapidly provide estimates of the extent of an earthquake disaster is much less of a problem in industrialized than in developing countries. This article focuses on how one can estimate earthquake losses in developing countries in real time.
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