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Books on: earthquakes tsunamis

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1.

Music of the Earth: Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Other Geological Wonders

Book by Ron L. Morton; Plenum Press, 1996

Subjects:

Earth Sciences--Popular Works

Collections: Entire Library

...OF THE EARTH Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Other Geological Wonders MUSIC OF THE EARTH Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Other Geological Wonders...Music of the earth : volcanoes, earthquakes, and other geological wonders...
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Illusions of Safety: Culture and Earthquake Hazard Response in California and Japan

Book by Risa Palm, John Carroll; Westview Press, 1998

Subjects:

Disaster Relief--California--Planning--Public Opinion, Disaster Relief--Japan--Planning--Public Opinion, Earthquake Hazard Analysis--California, Earthquake Hazard Analysis--Japan, Earthquakes--Califiornia--Safety Measures--Public Opinion, Earthquakes--California--Public Opinion, Earthquakes--Japan--Public Opinion, Earthquakes--Japan--Safety Measures--Public Opinion

Collections: Entire Library

...location relative to the coasi tsunamis may hit lowlying coastal areas...loss of life associated with earthquakes is caused by the failure...to be the site of gigantic earthquakes, creating giant tsunamis affecting people in distant...
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Natural Disasters and Cultural Change

Book by Robin Torrence, John Grattan; Routledge, 2002

Subjects:

Archaeology And Natural Disasters, Natural Disasters

Collections: History, Entire Library

Human cultures have been interacting with natural hazards since the dawn of time. This book explores these interactions in detail and revisits some famous catastrophes including the eruptions of Thera and Vesuvius. These studies demonstrate that diverse human cultures had well-developed strategies ...
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Human cultures have been interacting with natural hazards since the dawn of time. This book explores these interactions in detail and revisits some famous catastrophes including the eruptions of Thera and Vesuvius. These studies demonstrate that diverse human cultures had well-developed strategies which facilitated their response to extreme natural events.
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At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters

Book by Ben Wisner, Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, Ian Davis; Routledge, 2003

Subjects:

Natural Disasters

Collections: Entire Library

The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural ...
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The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed.The updated new edition confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters and discusses disaster not as an aberration, but as a signal failure of mainstream 'development'. Two analytical models are provided as tools for understanding vulnerability. One links remote and distant 'root causes' to 'unsafe conditions' in a 'progression of vulnerability'. The other uses the concepts of 'access' and 'livelihood' to understand why some households are more vulnerable than others.Examining key natural events and incorporating strategies to create a safer world, this revised edition is an important resource for those involved in the fields of environment and development studies.
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The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design

Book by Anne Whiston Spirn; Basic Books, 1984

Subjects:

City Planning--Environmental Aspects, Human Ecology, Landscape Architecture

Collections: Entire Library

...Atlantic Ocean. Millions of years ago, earthquakes shook the region, as they have many...Boston is not prone to as frequent earthquakes as San Francisco or Tokyo, it is at similar risk to earthquakes of great magnitude. In 1638, in...

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Journal Articles on: earthquakes tsunamis

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Indian Ocean Tsunamis: Environmental and Socio-Economic Impacts in Langkawi, Malaysia

Journal article by Michael Bird, Susan Cowie, Andrea Hawkes, Ben Horton, Colin Macgregor, Jin Eong Ong, Aileen Tan Shau Hwai, Teh Tiong Sa, Zulfigar Yasin; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 173, 2007

Subjects:

Emergency response teams, Environmental impact analysis, Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami, 2004--Economic aspects, Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami, 2004--Social aspects, Tourism--Environmental aspects, Travel industry--Environmental aspects, Tsunamis--Economic aspects, Tsunamis--Malaysia, Tsunamis--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...directly exposed to tsunamis generated in...the strongest earthquakes ever recorded...link between earthquakes and tsunamis. The deputy head...estimated from tsunamis recorded in the...large shallow earthquakes, 1900 to 1989...
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Mitigating Natural Disasters through Collective Action: The Effectiveness of Tsunami Early Warnings

Journal article by Monica P. Escaleras, Charles A. Register; Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 74, 2008

Subjects:

Earthquakes--Analysis, Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami, 2004--Analysis, Natural disasters--Analysis, Tsunamis--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...and location of tsunamis and their underlying earthquakes as the primary...cases, however, tsunamis are generated by earthquakes striking so close...relying on the 126 tsunamis that had underlying earthquakes with magnitudes...
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Building a Tsunami Warning System

Journal article by Charles W. Schmidt; Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 113, 2005

Subjects:

Tsunamis, United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Collections: Entire Library

...technologies that detect earthquakes and issue tsunami warnings...Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis, is composed of two...system that segregates tsunamis from earthquakes or cyclones, because...by NOAA measure the tsunamis height as it spread...
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The Indian Ocean Tsunami: Socio-Economic Impacts in Thailand

Journal article by Jonathan Rigg, Lisa Law, May Tan-Mullins, Carl Grundy-Warr; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 171, 2005

Subjects:

Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami, 2004--Economic aspects, Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami, 2004--Research, Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami, 2004--Social aspects, Tsunamis--Economic aspects, Tsunamis--Research, Tsunamis--Social aspects, Tsunamis--Thailand

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...rationalize the khluen yaak, or giant wave. This rationalization has involved an engagement both with the science of earthquakes and tsunamis, and the incorporation/embedding of this science with traditional Thai beliefs. These are not contradictory...
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Shadhrah 6 and the Earth Quakes

Journal article by Muzaffar Iqbal; Islam & Science, Vol. 3, 2005

Subjects:

Earthquakes--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...unceasingly building for the last three hundred years, it also inspires us to seek afresh the real nature of earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and tornados by refocusing our attention to something beyond the secondary causes which ascribe...

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Magazine Articles on: earthquakes tsunamis

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Tsunamis a Threat to Pacific Northwest

Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 130, December 2001

Subjects:

Natural disasters--Research, Pacific Rim, Papua New Guinea, Tsunamis--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...the world. Usually triggered by earthquakes, tsunamis bear little resemblance to regular...keep pace with a jet airliner. Tsunamis are not dangerous in deep water...is particularly vulnerable to tsunamis. Twelve damaging ones have struck...
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Silent Witnesses Seismic Sagas: Chilean Scientists Are Studying Historic Accounts of Earthquakes for Clues That Will Help Them Predict the Size and Timing of Future Eruptions

Magazine article by Louis Werner; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 58, March 2006

Subjects:

Chile--Environmental aspects, Earthquakes--Chile, Earthquakes--Forecasts and trends, Scientists--Research, Seismological research

Collections: Entire Library

...eyewitness records of earthquakes that occurred before...1, 1755, spawned real tsunamis in the West Indies, but...hundred feet. As with many earthquakes, it is not the shaking so much as the aftermath--tsunamis, fires, flooding, and...
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In the Tsunami's Wake

Magazine article by Anjalika Bardalai; The National Interest, Spring 2005

Collections: Entire Library

In the Tsunamis Wake. by Anjalika Bardalai...Bangladesh and China are flood prone; severe earthquakes have recently struck Central America...there are other factors to consider. The tsunamis destruction of coral reef systems, mangroves...
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On Shaky Ground: After a Devastating Earthquake a Year Ago, Residents of Coastal Towns in Southern Peru Have Been Evacuated from Their Homes on Grounds of Safety. Meanwhile the Property Developers Have Moved In

Magazine article by Fred Pearce; Geographical, Vol. 74, June 2002

Subjects:

Disaster relief--Management, Earthquakes--Peru, Floods--Peru, Natural disasters--Social aspects, Peru--Natural disasters, Tsunamis--Environmental aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...This is undoubtedly a risky coastline. There have been tsunamis before, the last in 1873. But these killer waves do not hit...mass evacuation, can often provide the best protection from earthquakes. In Peru last year the timely establishment of 15 emergency...
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Lessons from the Epicentre: Early Warnings and Immediate Assistance Are Crucial When Natural Disasters Strike, but Donors Need to Look beyond the Immediate Relief Period to Provide Meaningful Aid

Magazine article by Craig Johnson; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 32, July 2006

Subjects:

Disaster planning--Analysis, Disaster relief--Analysis, Disaster relief--Finance, Disaster relief--Management, Earthquakes, Emergency management--Analysis, Natural disasters--Management, Tsunamis

Collections: Entire Library

...forms of public infrastructure tends to be poor, making coastal populations particularly vulnerable to natural disasters like tsunamis, cyclones and flash floods. Furthering these problems, many coastal communities are physically isolated from political and...

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Newspaper Articles on: earthquakes tsunamis

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South Atlantic Quake Causes Terror

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), January 3, 2006

Subjects:

Earthquakes, Tsunamis

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...British Geological Survey, said yesterdays earthquake was unlikely to cause a tsunami. "This particular area is not known to have tsunamis," he said. "The mechanism of this earthquake is not the type that would normally cause a tsunami - there was not much of an...
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Villagers Flee as Earthquake Makes Wave; INTERNATIONAL

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 14, 2007

Subjects:

Earthquakes, Tsunamis

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Villagers Flee as Earthquake Makes Wave; INTERNATIONAL. Three powerful earthquakes jolted Indonesia in less than 24 hours, sending a 10-foot tsunami crashing to shore, damaging hundreds of houses and terrifying...
3.

Tsunami Alert after Quake

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 21, 2007

Subjects:

Earthquakes, Tsunamis

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library
4.

Quake Triggers Tsunami Scare; the World Today

Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), December 27, 2006

Subjects:

Earthquakes, Tsunamis

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library
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Tidal Waves Kill over 4,000 in 5 Nations; Most Powerful Earthquake in 40 Years Triggers Killer Tsunamis in Asia

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 27, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Geological Survey. "It is multiple earthquakes along the same faultline," she said...killed on Sunday when they were hit by tsunamis while about 70 were exploring the famed...with recreational divers, following the tsunamis generated by an earthquake under the...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: earthquakes tsunamis

4 results

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Tsunami

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...be caused by earthquakes , volcanic eruptions...striking the earth. Tsunamis are also called...largest. Since tsunamis principally occur...following shallow-focus earthquakes over magnitude...detection of such earthquakes on the ocean floor...seismology ). Tsunamis may be detected...
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Earthquake

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Mexico (1999); Bam, Iran (2003); and NW Sumatra, Indonesia (2004). The Lisbon, Chilean, and Sumatran earthquakes were accompanied by tsunamis . On Good Friday 1964, one of the most severe North American earthquakes ever recorded struck Alaska...
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Tidal Wave

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...destructive wave or to high water not related to tidal phenomena. These latter waves are of two types: tsunamis , which are waves caused by earthquakes , and storm surges (see under storm ). ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth...
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Callao

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...During the War of the Pacific (see Pacific, War of the ), Callao was occupied (1881 83) by Chile. Subjected to earthquakes and tsunamis, the city was completely destroyed in 1746 and was severely damaged in 1940. Several landmarks from the colonial...

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