Earthquakes
"Earthquakes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D055866
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G01.311.340.224 G01.595.340.224
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Earthquakes" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Lopez-Candales A, Mounsey JP. COVID-19: an unprecedented pandemia with a potential arrhythmic undertone. Postgrad Med. 2020 Sep; 132(7):601-603.
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Pollard JA, Rose DC. Lightning Rods, Earthquakes, and Regional Identities: Towards a Multi-Scale Framework of Assessing Fracking Risk Perception. Risk Anal. 2019 02; 39(2):473-487.