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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Genesis of a PHU disaster response plan

Thais A Miles and Jeanette Sheridan

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin 3(7) 73 - 74
Published: 1992

Abstract

At 10.27 am on December 28, 1989, Newcastle was hit by an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the open-ended Richter scale Twelve people were killed by collapsed buildings and 105 people presented to Hunter Hospitals with symptoms directly attributable to the earthquake.

https://doi.org/10.1071/NB92039

© NSW Department of Health 1992

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