Disasters category: 785 books
by Betsy D'Annibale
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
June 28, 1924, dawned hot and sunny, with fluffy white clouds hovering over a blue and inviting Lake Erie. For two Ohio communities, Lorain and Sandusky, the day ended in unimaginable disaster. In the late afternoon, the blue sky turned dark, and the wispy white puffs morphed into a mass of black thunderclouds...
by Bill McGuire
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2006
Life on earth will come to an end. It's just a matter of when. Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction focuses on the many potential catastrophes facing our planet and our species in the future, and looks at both the probability of these events happening and our chances of survival. Coverage extends...
The Modern American Frugal Housewife
Emergency Prepping
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
If you can survive in the arctic naked with nothing but a paperclip, this book is not for you. If you can kill a grizzly bear with your bare hands, this book is not for you. If you're planning for a Zombie Apocalypse or the next Ice Age, this book is not for you. If you're just a regular person looking...
The U.S. Military Response to the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
Considerations for Army Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This report examines how Joint Task Force-Haiti (JTF-Haiti) supported the humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts in Haiti. It focuses on how JTF-Haiti was organized, how it conducted Operation Unified Response, and how the U.S. Army supported that effort. The analysis includes a review of...
Landslides in Sensitive Clays
From Geosciences to Risk Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Landslides in sensitive clays represent a major hazard in the northern countries of the world such as Canada, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and in the US state of Alaska. Past and recent examples of catastrophic landslides at e.g. Saint-Jean-Vianney in 1971, Rissa in 1979, Finneidfjord in 1996 and...
Landslide Science and Practice
Volume 1: Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility and Hazard Zoning
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the first: 1. Landslide Inventory...
by Clackamas County Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Native American legends from times long ago tell of great floods that covered the earth in the Pacific Northwest. Early fur trappers describe the Willamette River as a sheet of water covering the land as far as the eye can see in the early 1800s. As American settlement of the Oregon Territory began in...
Earthquake-Induced Landslides
Initiation and run-out analysis by considering vertical seismic loading, tension failure and the trampoline effect
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This book sheds new light on improved methods for the study of the initiation and run-out of earthquake-induced landslides. It includes an initiation study method that considers tension-shear failure mechanism; an improved, rigorous, dynamic sliding-block method based on dynamic critical acceleration;...
The 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: Reconstruction and Restoration
Insights and Assessment after 5 Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book covers the restoration and reconstruction process and activities undertaken in Japan in the first five years since the 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami – a period widely considered to be the most intensive reconstruction phase within the 10-year restoration plan drawn up by the Japanese Government.
The...
by Beth Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
This thesis is remarkable for the wide range of the techniques and observations used and for its insights, which cross several disciplines. It begins by solving a famous puzzle of the ancient world, which is what was responsible for the tsunami that destroyed settlements in the eastern Mediterranean...
by Xavier Ruiz
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Does the thought of a natural disaster make you nervous? Do you worry that someday soon you might be faced with such a situation? How will you react and what will you do?
There are ways to prepare for disaster. In this ebook you will learn about everything you need to do before an earthquake...
by Lin Waterhouse
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
The 1928 explosion that transformed a West Plains dance hall into a raging inferno sparked feverish national media attention and decades of bitterness in the Missouri town it tore apart. And while the story inspired a popular country song, the firestorm that claimed thirty-nine lives remains an unsolved...
Wildfire Loose
The Week Maine Burned
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
In October 1947, Maine experienced the worst fire disaster in its history. Climaxing months of drought, fires raged across more than 200,000 acres. Nine communities were practically leveled and four others severely damaged. Fifteen people lost their lives. Wildfire Loose describes how the fires started...
by James E. Benson & Nicole B. Casper
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
On March 10, 1941, at 12:38 a.m., the Brockton Fire Department responded to Fire Alarm Box 1311, which was pulled for a fire at the Strand Theatre. Fire Alarm dispatched the deputy chief, three engine companies, a ladder company and Squad A. Within six minutes, a second alarm was struck. Less than...