Natural Disasters: Earthquakes (Natural Disasters)
by Ewan McLeish and Susan Bullen
NATURAL DISASTERS uses a case study approach to investigate the devastating effects of natural phenomena. Each of the 6 titles includes spectacular images and examples from LEDCs (less economically developed countries) and MEDCs (more economically developed countries) that explore the causes and impacts of recent major disasters. You will learn how people were affected and how they coped with, and recovered from, the dramatic disruption to their lives. Each title also looks at how we can prepare...
Intrigued by the defining pillar of his native landscape, writer Bruce Barcott set out to grasp the spirit of Mount Rainier, the largest and most dangerous volcano in the country, through a death-defying journey along its massive flanks.
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 (Professional Paper) (Professional Paper 1707 S.)
by Brian F Atwater, Satoko Musumi-Rokkaku, Kenji Satake, Yoshinobu Tsuji, Kazue Ueda, and David K Yamaguchi
A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted having felt no earthquake; they wondered what had set off the waves but had no way of knowing that the tsunami was spawned during an earthquake along the coast of northwestern North America. This orphan tsunami would not be linked to its parent earthquake until the mid-twentieth century, through an extraordinary series of discoveries in both North America...
The Ground Is Shaking! What Happens During an Earthquake? Geology for Beginners Children's Geology Books
by Baby Professor
Law and the Kinetic Environment (Space, Materiality and the Normative)
by Sarah Marusek
This book addresses the legal-geographical implications of the fact that landscapes are not static, but dynamic. Within the field of legal geography, the spatial relationship of law to landscape is usually considered to be static. Environments are often considered fixed, and consequently inert, as places that literally don’t go anywhere. Typically, then, it is what happens in these places, rather than the place itself, that commands academic attention. In contrast to this static viewpoint, Law a...
Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: A Handbook
Earthquake Safety Guide for Homeowners
by U S Department of Homeland Security- Fe
The 2007-2012 World Outlook for Peripheral Vasodilator Pharmaceuticals
by Philip M. Parker
Seismic Wave Propagation and Scattering in the Heterogeneous Earth : Second Edition
by Haruo Sato, Michael C Fehler, and Takuto Maeda
Seismic waves - generated both by natural earthquakes and by man-made sources - have produced an enormous amount of information about the Earth's interior. In classical seismology, the Earth is modeled as a sequence of uniform horizontal layers (or spherical shells) having different elastic properties and one determines these properties from travel times and dispersion of seismic waves. The Earth, however, is not made of horizontally uniform layers, and classic seismic methods can take large-sca...