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Earthquake and atmospheric hazards : preparedness studies.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: Dordrecht : Kluwer, 1998Description: 101-300 p. : ill., mapsISBN:
  • 0792350340 (hc)
DDC classification:
  • 363.347 21
Contents:
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"Reprinted from Natural hazards, Volume 16, Nos. 2 & 3, 1997"

Includes bibliographical references

Complexity theory of natural disasters: boundaries of self-structured domains -- March 1990 hailstorm damage in Sydney, Australia -- A test of the cyclicity of earthquakes -- Climate change, extreme events and the Canadian insurance industry -- Problems for probabilistic seismic hazard analysis -- Atmospheric hazards preparedness in Bangladesh: a study of warning, adjustments and recovery from the April 1991 cyclone -- Estimation of response spectra in the severely damaged area during the 1995 Hyogo-Ken Nambu earthquake -- Federal legislation for disaster mitigation: a comparative assessment between Canada and the United States -- Arias intensity assessment of liquefaction test sites on the east-side of San Francisco Bay affected by the Loma Prieta, California, earthquake of 17 October 1989 -- The behaviour of a man-made island during the Great Hanshin earthquake, Japan -- Mexico, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Kobe: what next? -- Meeting report: Hazards-96: concluding plenary session and discussion

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