Exploring the psychosocial impacts of the 2015 Aliso Canyon natural gas blowout: Tracing an ‘invisible’ disaster through a novel Disaster Invisibility Framework

By afschroeder • October 31, 2025

Lynch KA, Loeb T, Gravereaux C, Monte-Sano S, Hoang A, Batteate C, Liu H, Abramson DM, Eisenman DP. Exploring the psychosocial impacts of the 2015 Aliso Canyon natural gas blowout: Tracing an 'invisible' disaster through a novel Disaster Invisibility Framework. Soc Sci Med. 2025 Oct 25;387:118698. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118698. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41167070.

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