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, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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
MeSH Number(s)	G01.311.250
Concept/Terms	Earthquakes Earthquakes Earthquake

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Biological Sciences [G]
Physical Phenomena [G01]
Geological Phenomena [G01.311]
Earthquakes [G01.311.250]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2011	1	0	1
2013	0	1	1
2015	1	0	1
2020	0	1	1
2021	2	0	2
2023	1	0	1

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Castro-Figueroa EM, Pe?a-Vargas C, Rodr?guez-Santiago M, Figueroa JI, Hern?ndez R, Rodr?guez Z, Jim H, Pereira C, Torres-Blasco N, Flores I, Costas-Mu?iz R, Armaiz-Pena GN. Hispanic Cancer Survivors Exposed to Multiple Natural Disasters: Pre-Post-Disaster Changes in Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, Perceived Stress, and Physical Symptom Burden. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2024 Sep 19; 21(9).

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Cruz MA, Garfield R, Irizarry J, Torres-Delgado NI, Rodriguez-Rivera MZ, Montoya-Zavala M, Cortes LM, Algar?n G, Bayleyegn T, Funk RH, Rodriguez-Orengo JF, Zavala DE. Assessing the living environment of persons displaced following a strong earthquake sequence in Puerto Rico, 2020. J Emerg Manag. 2023 Nov-Dec; 21(6):487-495.

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Ortiz AP, Gierbolini-Berm?dez A, Ramos-Cartagena JM, Col?n-L?pez V, Sonawane K, Deshmukh AA, Ortiz-Ortiz KJ. Cervical Cancer Screening Among Medicaid Patients During Natural Disasters and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Puerto Rico, 2016 to 2020. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 10 01; 4(10):e2128806.

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Sharma V, Levin BL, Rahill GJ, Baldwin JA, Luitel A, Marhefka SL. Post-earthquake Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and their Correlates among College-Youths in Kathmandu, Nepal. Psychiatr Q. 2021 12; 92(4):1595-1609.

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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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Xu X, Li B, Bai R, Rao Y, Liu L, Reis C, Sharma M, Zhao Y. Food Guide Pagoda and the food safety of women: one-year follow-up study on the effects of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2018; 27(3):662-670.

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Hu P, Han LL, Hou FG, Xu XL, Sharma M, Zhao Y. Dietary attitudes and behaviours of women in China after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in three seismically different zones. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2016 Dec; 25(4):849-857.

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Lescak EA, Bassham SL, Catchen J, Gelmond O, Sherbick ML, von Hippel FA, Cresko WA. Evolution of stickleback in 50 years on earthquake-uplifted islands. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 12 29; 112(52):E7204-12.

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Barzilay EJ, Schaad N, Magloire R, Mung KS, Boncy J, Dahourou GA, Mintz ED, Steenland MW, Vertefeuille JF, Tappero JW. Cholera surveillance during the Haiti epidemic--the first 2 years. N Engl J Med. 2013 Feb 14; 368(7):599-609.

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Date KA, Vicari A, Hyde TB, Mintz E, Danovaro-Holliday MC, Henry A, Tappero JW, Roels TH, Abrams J, Burkholder BT, Ruiz-Matus C, Andrus J, Dietz V. Considerations for oral cholera vaccine use during outbreak after earthquake in Haiti, 2010-2011. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Nov; 17(11):2105-12.

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