The Gujarat Earthquake (2001) Experience in a Seismically Unprepared Area: Community Hospital Medical Response

Nobhojit Roy; Hemant Shah; Vikas Patel; R. Richard Coughlin

doi:10.1017/S1049023X00000480

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