Power law and entropy analysis of catastrophic phenomena

Catastrophic events, such as wars and terrorist attacks, tornadoes and hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and landslides, are always accompanied by a large number of casualties. The size distribution of these casualties has separately been shown to follow approximate power law (PL) distributi...

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Main Author: Machado, J.A.Tenreiro (author)
Other Authors: Pinto, Carla M.A. (author), Lopes, António M. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3229
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:recipp.ipp.pt:10400.22/3229