Articles | Volume 15, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-2173-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-15-2173-2015
Research article
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01 Oct 2015
Research article |  | 01 Oct 2015

An interdisciplinary perspective on social and physical determinants of seismic risk

K.-H. E. Lin, Y.-C. Chang, G.-Y. Liu, C.-H. Chan, T.-H. Lin, and C.-H. Yeh

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