Natural Hazards : Earth's Processes as Hazards, Disasters and Catastrophes
ISBN: 9780132318648 | 0132318644
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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For professors and students of natural hazards or courses in earthquakes and volcanoes, Edward A. Keller and Robert H. Blodgett's treatment of fundamental scientific concepts addresses societal interactions and Earth processes.Included with every text, the Hazard City CD-ROMgives instructors meaningful, easy-to-assign, and easy-to-grade assignments based on the idealized town of Hazard City.
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| First Draft Revised Outline for Natural Hazards 2e | |
| Introduction to Natural Hazards | |
| Case History Nevado del Ruiz, Columbia | |
| Importance Role of history | |
| Geologic cycles | |
| Five fundamental concepts | |
| Natural service functions | |
| Global change | |
| Case Study | |
| Human Population through History | |
| ... MORE | |
| The Magnitude | |
| Frequency Concept | |
| Earthquakes | |
| Case History | |
| Earthquakes of Early 2001 | |
| Introduction and measurement Processes | |
| Ground motion | |
| Regions at risk Effects | |
| Linkages with other hazards volcanoes, landslides, liquefaction, tsunamis, subsidence, fire, disease | |
| Natural service functions | |
| Human interactions | |
| Forecasts, predictions, and warnings | |
| Mitigation Perception and adjustments | |
| Case Study | |
| Earthquakes in Canada (modified from existing Survivor Story) | |
| Case Study | |
| New Madrid, Missouri 1811-1812 | |
| Survivor Story | |
| Professional Profile | |
| Andrea Donnellan, Earthquake Forecaster | |
| Tsunamis | |
| Introduction | |
| Processes types of water waves, currents, seiches | |
| Regions at risk Effects | |
| Linkages with other hazards earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, impacts | |
| Natural service functions | |
| Human interactions | |
| Detection and warnings | |
| Mitigation Perception and adjustments | |
| Case Study | |
| Volcanic Landslides and Tsunamis | |
| Case Study | |
| Indonesian Tsunami of 2004 | |
| Case Study (one or two additional) 1700 | |
| Tsunami in Pacific Northwest, 1958 | |
| Tsunami in Lituya Bay, AK, or Mitigation and Preparedness in Japan | |
| Survivor Story | |
| Tsunami in the Lowest Country on Earth Professional | |
| Profile [a researcher (Kerry Sieh at Cal Tech or Jose Barrero at USC), a Pacific Tsunami | |
| Warning Center staff member, or an educator (Lori Dengler at Humboldt State)] | |
| Volcanoes | |
| Case History | |
| Mt. Unzem, 1991 | |
| Introduction types and features | |
| Regions at risk Effects | |
| Linkages with other hazards earthquakes, landslides, tsunamis, climate change, fire, subsidence | |
| Natural service functions | |
| Human interactions | |
| Forecasts and warnings | |
| Mitigation Perception and adjustments | |
| Case Study | |
| Yellowstone Caldera Supervolcano | |
| Case Study | |
| Volcanic Ash and Aviation | |
| Professional Profile | |
| Chris Eisinger, Studying Active | |
| Volcanoes Survivor Story | |
| A Close Call with Mount St. Helens | |
| Flooding | |
| Case History replace with Mid-Atlantic States floods of 2006 | |
| Introduction rivers and fluvial processes | |
| Processes Regions at risk Effects | |
| Linkages with other hazards landslides, storms, glaciers, tsunamis, fire, climate change | |
| Natural service functions | |
| Human interactions | |
| Forecasts and warnings | |
| Mitigation Perception and adjustments | |
| Case Study | |
| Alluvial Fan | |
| Flooding on the Ventura River | |
| Case Study | |
| Magnitude and Frequency of Floods | |
| Case Study | |
| Flash Floods of Eastern Ohio | |
| Survivor Story | |
| Flash Flood | |
| Professional Profile (Ana Barros, Harvard or Eve Gruntfest at Colorado) | |
| Mass Wasting | |
| Case History | |
| Portuguese Bend, California | |
| Introduction types (falls, slides, flows) and processes | |
| Regions at risk Effects | |
| Linkages with other hazards earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, storms, flooding, fire | |
| Natural service functions | |
| Human interactions | |
| Forecasts and warnings | |
| Mitigation Perception and adjustments | |
| Case Study | |
| La Conchita: Southern California | |
| Landslide Disaster of 2005 | |
| Lessons Learned | |
| Case Study | |
| Snow Avalanche | |
| Forecasting and Control | |
| Survivor Story | |
| Landslide Professional Pr | |
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