Flood fatalities in eastern Kentucky and the public health legacy of mountaintop removal coal mining

ABSTRACTHeavy rains at night caused severe flooding in eastern Kentucky on 28 July 2022, resulting in 39 deaths. Using publicly available information, we assembled a database of these fatalities, including demographic characteristics and location of death. We perturbed fatality locations and plotted...

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Main Authors: W. Jay Christian, Beverly May, Jeffrey E. Levy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2023-12-01
Series:Journal of Maps
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/17445647.2023.2214159