Menny, C.; Werner, U. - Universität <Karlsruhe> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2008
Different reports about the same natural disaster often show an astounding difference in theestimations of overall losses. For the Northridge earthquake, for example, the estimation oftotal losses reaches from 25 billion US$ up to 49.3 billion US$ (Petak, 2001, p. 5). Thesedifferences give a...