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Proposal for a quantitative index of flood disasters
Author(s) -
Feng Lihua,
Luo Gaoyuan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01165.x
Subject(s) - flood myth , magnitude (astronomy) , index (typography) , scale (ratio) , intensity (physics) , richter magnitude scale , quantitative analysis (chemistry) , environmental science , quantitative assessment , computer science , geography , engineering , mathematics , reliability engineering , cartography , physics , chemistry , geometry , archaeology , chromatography , quantum mechanics , astronomy , scaling , world wide web
Drawing on calculations of wind scale and earthquake magnitude, this paper develops a new quantitative method for measuring flood magnitude and disaster intensity. Flood magnitude is the quantitative index that describes the scale of a flood; the flood's disaster intensity is the quantitative index describing the losses caused. Both indices have numerous theoretical and practical advantages with definable concepts and simple applications, which lend them key practical significance.