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The losses that come after the earthquake: devastating and costly

August 29, 2017 // 1 Comment

In 2011, the Tohoku earthquake created a series of huge tsunami waves, which damaged coastal communities killing more than 17,900 people, forcing more than 50,000 households to relocate, and caused the Fukushima nuclear power plant failure, a nuclear disaster second only to Chernobyl in Russia in 1986, but which spread radiation across the Pacific Ocean. Image by Shutterstock.

A study, published in Frontiers in Built Environment, explores the economic losses associated with the secondary effects of earthquakes. [...]

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