effect of earthquakes

Summit Conference on Earthquake and Natural Disaster Countermeasures, 1991

Task Team on Real-Time Telemetry, Seismic and Tsunami Data Exchange [ Ad hoc Group of Experts on Real-time Telemetry, Seismic and Tsunami Data Exchange ]

Definition: This block contains a wide variety of disorders that differ in severity and clinical form but that are all attributable to the use of one or more psychoactive substances, which may or may not have been medically prescribed. The third character of the code identifies the substance involved, and the fourth character specifies the clinical state. The codes should be used, as required, for each substance specified, but it should be noted that not all fourth character codes are applicable to all substances. Identification of the psychoactive substance should be based on as many sources of information as possible. These include sel ...[+++]f-report data, analysis of blood and other body fluids, characteristic physical and psychological symptoms, clinical signs and behaviour, and other evidence such as a drug being in the patient's possession or reports from informed third parties. Many drug users take more than one type of psychoactive substance. The main diagnosis should be classified, whenever possible, according to the substance or class of substances that has caused or contributed most to the presenting clinical syndrome. Other diagnoses should be coded when other psychoactive substances have been taken in intoxicating amounts (common fourth character .0) or to the extent of causing harm (common fourth character .1), dependence (common fourth character .2) or other disorders (common fourth character .3-.9). Only in cases in which patterns of psychoactive substance-taking are chaotic and indiscriminate, or in which the contributions of different psychoactive substances are inextricably mixed, should the diagnosis of disorders resulting from multiple drug use (F19.-) be used. | Modifiers The following fourth-character subdivisions are for use with categories F10-F19: Code Title .0 Acute intoxication A condition that follows the administration of a psychoactive substance resulting in disturbances in level of consciousness, cognition, perception, affect or behaviour, o ...

Blast effects Exposure to ionizing radiation from nuclear weapon Fireball effects Heat Other direct and secondary effects of nuclear weapons

no observed effect level | no-observable-effect level | NOEL [Abbr.]

to protest | to protest a bill of exchange

color blender | colour sampling operators | color mixer | colour sampling operator

Definition: Vascular dementia is the result of infarction of the brain due to vascular disease, including hypertensive cerebrovascular disease. The infarcts are usually small but cumulative in their effect. Onset is usually in later life. | arteriosclerotic dementia

The European Commission is further mobilising the instruments at its disposal to provide relief to the farming communities affected by the recent earthquakes in Italy by allowing greater flexibility in the implementation of several measures with immediate financial effect.

Even though earthquake victims suffer similar consequences, namely considerable financial loss, the compensatory and remedial measures funded by the State are liable to be different and should continue to be different.

– (SK) Madam President, although it has been possible to gradually mitigate and eliminate the consequences of the destructive earthquake, the inhabitants are still facing serious problems.

C. whereas prior to the earthquake, Haiti reported as a fragile state, suffered from poverty, political instability and violence as well as natural disasters leaving government institutions weak and impeding state's ability to provide public services; whereas the destructive effects of the earthquake plunged the country into one of the most severe humanitarian crises it has ever experienced,