"Earthquakes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Sudden slips on a fault, and the resulting ground shaking and radiated seismic energy caused by the slips, or by volcanic or magmatic activity, or other sudden stress changes in the earth. Faults are fractures along which the blocks of EARTH crust on either side have moved relative to one another parallel to the fracture.
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D055866
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.311.250
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| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Earthquakes" by people in Profiles.
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Milsten AM, Kang CS, Nemeth I. Maladaptive behaviors in disasters: case study evaluation of Hurricane Hugo, Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti Earthquake. Front Public Health. 2024; 12:1396517.
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Cheng L, Hertelendy AJ, Hart A, Law LS, Hata R, Nouaime G, Issa F, Echeverri L, Voskanyan A, Ciottone GR. Factors associated with international humanitarian aid appeal for disasters from 1995 to 2015: A retrospective database study. PLoS One. 2023; 18(6):e0286472.
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Peacock-Chambers E, Del Canto P, Ahlers D, Valdivia Peralta M, Palfrey J. School-Based Disaster Recovery: Promotion of Children's Mental Health Over the Long Haul. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2017 10; 11(5):633-636.
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Nelson EJ, Nelson DS, Salam MA, Sack DA. Antibiotics for both moderate and severe cholera. N Engl J Med. 2011 Jan 06; 364(1):5-7.
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Broach JP, McNamara M, Harrison K. Ambulatory care by disaster responders in the tent camps of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January 2010. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2010 Jun; 4(2):116-21.
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Ganz A, Yu X, Schafer J, D'Hauwe S, Nathanson LA, Burstein J, Ciottone GR, Lord G. DIORAMA: dynamic information collection and resource tracking architecture. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2010; 2010:386-9.