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Earthquake hazard, risk and disasters /



xxiv, 582 p. : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. - (Hazards and disasters series ) Content notes : 1.Remote sensing for disaster response: a rapid, image-based perspective / Charles Huyck, Enrica Verrucci and John Bevington --
2. The capabilities of earth observation to contribute along the risk cycle / H. Taubenbock --
3. Disaster-risk reduction through the training of masons and public information campaigns: experience of SDC's "Competence Centre for Reconstruction" in Haiti / Tom Schacher --
4. The most useful countermeasure against giant earthquakes and tsunamis: what we learned from interviews of 164 tsunami survivors / Mizuho Ishida and Masataka Ando --
5. Aggravated earthquake risk in South Asia: engineering versus human nature / Roger Bilham --
6. Ten years of real-time earthquake loss alerts / Max Wyss --
7. Forecasting seismic risk as an earthquake sequence happens / J. Douglas Zechar, Marcus Herrmann, Thomas van Stiphout and Stephen Wiemer --
8. How to render schools safe in developing countries? / Amod M. Dixit, Surya P. Acharya, Surya N. Shrestha and Ranjan Dhungel --
9. The socioeconomic impact of earthquake disasters / James E. Daniell --
10. The contribution of paleoseismology to earthquake hazard evaluations / Mustapha Meghraoui and Kuvvet Atakan --
11. The role of microzonation in estimating earthquake risk / Imtiyaz A. Parvez and Philippe Rosset --
12. Why are the standard probabilistic methods of estimating seismic hazard and risks too often wrong / Giuliano Panza,Vladimir G. Kossobokov, Antonella Peresan and Anastasia Nekrasove --
13. The continued utility of probabilistic seismic-hazard assessment / Mark W. Stirling --
14. Precarious rocks: providing upper limits on past ground shaking from earthquakes / John G. Anderson, Glenn P. Biasi, and James N. Brune --
15. Quantifying improvements in earthquake-rupture forecasts through testable models / Danijel Schorlemmer and Matthew C. Gerstenberger --
16. Duties of earthquake forecast: cases and lessons in China / Zhongliang Wu --
17. The experience of real-time earthquake predictions on Kamchatka / Gennady Sobolev and Victor Chebrov --
18. Times of increased probabilities for occurrence of hypothesis testing in real time / Vladimir G. Kossobokov --
19. Review of the nationwide earthquake early warning in Japan during its first five years / Mitsuyuki Hoshiba --
20. To what extent can engineering reudce seismic risk? / Stavros V. Tolis --
21. Decision making under uncertainity: insuring and reinsuring earthquake risk / Geor W. Michel --
Index. Earthquakes - Environmental aspects. Earthquakes - Safety measures.

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