Economic applications in disaster research

Of course, these human losses pale in comparison to many of the great disasters such as the 1976 Northeastern China earthquake that killed 240,000, the 40,000 killed in Northwestern Iran in 1990, the 2004 Indonesian tsunami with a death toll exceeding 300,000 and the 1918-1919 flu pandemic that claimed an estimated 30 million lives (Becker ... ................
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