Natural Disasters category: 785 books

Cover of Oregon City Floods
by Clackamas County Historical Society
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...
Cover of Earthquake-Induced Landslides

Earthquake-Induced Landslides

Initiation and run-out analysis by considering vertical seismic loading, tension failure and the trampoline effect

by Yingbin Zhang
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;...
Cover of The 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: Reconstruction and Restoration
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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...
Cover of Active tectonics of the Hellenic subduction zone
by Beth Shaw
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...
Cover of The West Plains Dance Hall Explosion
by Lin Waterhouse
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...
Cover of Wildfire Loose

Wildfire Loose

The Week Maine Burned

by Joyce Butler
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...
Cover of The Strand Theatre Fire: The 1941 Brockton Tragedy and the Fallen Thirteen
by James E. Benson & Nicole B. Casper
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...
Cover of 1953 Essex Flood Disaster

1953 Essex Flood Disaster

The People's Story

by Patricia Rennoldson Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012

On a stormy evening in January 1953, Peggy Morgan kissed her five-year-old son goodnight, blissfully unaware of the impending catastrophe. Before sunrise the next morning the North Sea had destroyed her home and Peggy was a childless widow. There had been no prediction, no warning. Men, women and...
Cover of The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937
by James E. Casto
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009

From the time settlers first pushed into the Ohio Valley, floods were an accepted fact of life. After each flood, people shoveled the mud from their doors and set about rebuilding their towns. In 1884, the Ohio River washed away 2,000 homes. In 1913, an even worse flood swept down the river. People labeled...
Cover of Troy and the Great Flood of 1913
by Troy Historical Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012

The rain began to fall on Easter Sunday, March 23, 1913. In Troy, 15 people lost their lives during the flood due to drowning, and in the weeks and months that followed an unknown number died from flood-related diseases. The story of what happened in Troy has often been overlooked, but in 1976 the Troy...
Cover of Oak Lawn Tornado of 1967
by Kevin Korst
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014

The morning of April 21, 1967, was crisp and clear, marking the arrival of spring. As the day progressed, dark clouds covered the skies over Oak Lawn, and a deadly tornado touched down in the village just before 5:30 p.m. Cutting through the intersection of 95th Street and Southwest Highway and striking...
Cover of The Cedar Keys Hurricane of 1896: Disaster at Dawn
by Alvin F. Oickle
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009

The destruction was beyond belief. Families watched in horror as walls of water swept away homes and businesses, and men held onto saplings for their very lives while the winds howled. Buildings on Atsena Otie were swept away so completely that only cracked stone foundations remained, and the forests...
Cover of The Forgotten Storm

The Forgotten Storm

The Great Tri-State Tornado of 1925

by Wallace Akin
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004

The amazing true story of the deadliest tornado in American history, as told by a survivor.
Cover of EMP Survival: Be Prepared To Survive Any Case of EMP
by Mark Young
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018

An EMP attack is imminent, and it can happen at any time. It is crucial to prepare so that you can survive. From this book you will learn: -Different strategies and procedures to follow when you want to escape in a catastrophic EMP situation. -Different types of gadgets that can...
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