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Some of the most dramatic changes in regional economic and infrastructure capacity follow from natural disasters. These events imply substantial economic losses associated with the disruption of the urban economy. Despite this, the existing literature on the cost of earthquakes is largely restricted to the measurement of structure and contents losses.
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Historical earthquake data are obtainable from the US Geological Survey.
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Chang, S., Cho, S., Gordon, P., Moore, J.E., Richardson, H.W., Shinozuka, M. (2015). Estimating the Costs of a Large Urban Earthquake. In: Richardson, H., Pan, Q., Park, J., Moore II, J. (eds) Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14322-4_7
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