Earthquake and Atmospheric Hazards

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-102

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2. Complexity Theory of Natural Disasters; Boundaries of Self-Structured Domains

   • A. E. Scheidegger

   Pages 103-112

3. March 1990 Hailstorm Damage in Sydney, Australia

   • Kylie E. Andrews, Russell J. Blong

   Pages 113-125

4. A Test of the Cyclicity of Earthquakes

   • G. R. Dargahi-Noubary

   Pages 127-134

5. Climate Change, Extreme Events and the Canadian Insurance Industry

   • Rodney White, David Etkin

   Pages 135-163

6. Problems for Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis

   • D. H. Speidel, P. H. Mattson

   Pages 165-179

7. Atmospheric Hazards Preparedness in Bangladesh: A Study of Warning, Adjustments and Recovery from the April 1991 Cyclone

   • C. Emdad Haque

   Pages 181-202

8. Estimation of Response Spectra in the Severely Damaged Area During the 1995 Hyogo-Ken Nambu Earthquake

   • Tadanobu Sato, Katsutoshi Kita, Tomonari Maeda

   Pages 203-218

9. Federal Legislation for Disaster Mitigation: A Comparative Assessment Between Canada and the United States

   • John Newton

   Pages 219-241

10. 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

    • Robert E. Kayen, James K. Mitchell

    Pages 243-265

11. The Behaviour of a Man-Made Island During the Great Hanshin Earthquake, Japan

    • Yasuo Tanaka

    Pages 267-285

12. Mexico, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Kobe: What Next?

    • Cinna Lomnitz

    Pages 287-296

13. Meeting Report: Hazards-96: Concluding Plenary Session and Discussion

    • Madhav L. Khandekar

    Pages 297-300

Earthquakes and Atmospheric Hazards contains a selection of papers that were presented as part of the Sixth International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made Hazards (HAZARDS-96) held in Toronto, Canada during July, 1996. The Symposium was very timely, given the large number of natural disasters that have occurred in various parts of the world during the 1990s, the United Nations' International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). The human reaction to these disasters has varied widely from one event to the next and the economic and social costs have been immense with damage running into billions of dollars. Having in everyone's mind the Northridge, California (1994) and the Kobe, Japan (1995) earthquakes, the volcanoes in the Philippines, the cyclones and related storm surges in Bangladesh, and the floods in North America and Europe caused by heavy rains, the Symposium attracted more than one hundred papers covering various aspects of these events. The eleven papers included in this volume deal with the scientific and management issues of those earthquakes and atmospheric hazards that occurred during the late 1990s, with emphasis on the preparedness aspects. A summary report of the HAZARDS-96 Symposium and recommendations adopted by the participants is also included.
Earthquakes and Atmospheric Hazards forms an excellent reference for scientists, students, engineers, the insurance industry, authorities specializing in public safety and natural hazards preparedness and mitigation plans.

• Earthquake
• Geoinformationssysteme
• Hail
• ITC
• Natural disaster
• Storm
• cyclone
• hydrogeology

• University of Quebec at Rimouski, Canada

  M. I. El-Sabh

• Environment Canada, Downsview, Canada

  S. Venkatesh

• UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico

  C. Lomnitz

• Baird and Associates, Ottawa, Canada

  T. S. Murty

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