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The Use of Historical Data in Natural Hazard Assessments

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Editors:
  1. Thomas Glade

    1. Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany

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  2. Paola Albini

    1. Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Milano, Italy

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  3. Félix Francés

    1. Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research (NTHR, volume 17)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Earthquakes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Searching for the Source of the 1117 Earthquake in Northern Italy: A Multidisciplinary Approach

      • F. Galadini, P. Galli, D. Molin, G. Ciurletti
      Pages 3-27

    3. Sismicité Historique des Petites Antilles. Un Test Pour Quelques Années du Milieu du XIXe Siécle

      • J. Vogt
      Pages 29-33

    4. The 1828–1829 Earthquake Sequence in the Provinces of Alicante and Murcia (S-E Spain): Historical Sources and Macroseismic Intensity Assessment

      • P. Albini, F. Rodríguez De La Torre
      Pages 35-53

    5. The Seismic History of Nicolosi (Catania, Italy)

      • M. S. Barbano, R. Rigano, I. Coppolino
      Pages 55-70

    6. A New Macroseismic Catalogue for Catalonia

      • T. Susagna, X. Goula, A. Roca
      Pages 71-79

    7. Expeditious Seismic Damage Scenarios Based on Intensity Data from Historical Earthquakes

      • M. Mucciarelli, M. Stucchi
      Pages 81-86

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 217-222
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About this book

Natural hazards such as earthquakes, landslides, floods, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and hurricanes cause environmental, economic as well as sociological problems worldwide. In recent years, greater availability of information and sensational media reports of natural hazard occurrence -and in particular in terms of property damage or loss oflife caused by these hazards -resulted in an increase of hazard awareness at a societal level. This increase in public awareness has often been misconstrued as an indication that natural hazards have been occurring more frequently with higher magnitudes in recent years/decades, thus causing more damage than in the past. It is still under debate, however, to which extent recent increases in damage can be related to changing frequencies of natural processes, or whether catastrophic events occur at similar rates as they always had. If the latter is the case, the reason for a greater damage can be related to dramatic population growth over the last century, with a substantial augmentation of population density in some regions. Indeed, the implications are more server in underdeveloped and developing countries, where urbanisation has increasingly occurred in hazard prone areas such as coastal zones, alluvial river plains and steep slopes, thus causing an increase in the exposure to natural hazards. Some groups of society in wealthy countries accept higher risks in order to live directly on top of a cliff or on a steep slope to enjoy panoramic views of the landscape.

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"This book contains a collection of papers that deals particularly with the implementation of historical data in three areas of hazard assessment, namely earthquakes, floods and landsides. … this book is a powerful indicator that historical data in the three areas of hazard assessment have similar characteristics, namely very high magnitude events with substantial uncertainty. Hence the research done in combining these data with the modern records should be shared to facilitate better hazard assessments." (Mayshree Bejaichund and Andrzej Kijko, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 163, 2006)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany

    Thomas Glade

  • Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Milano, Italy

    Paola Albini

  • Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Félix Francés

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Use of Historical Data in Natural Hazard Assessments

  • Editors: Thomas Glade, Paola Albini, Félix Francés

  • Series Title: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3490-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7154-0Published: 30 November 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5762-4Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-3490-5Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1878-9897

  • Series E-ISSN: 2213-6959

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 222

  • Number of Illustrations: 66 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Hydrogeology, Geophysics/Geodesy, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography

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