Includes statistics.
The world around us is more powerful than we know.
Extreme Natural Disasters features catastrophic volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and other extreme acts of nature.
How tall was the biggest tsumani? What causes giant hailstones? How hot is the inside of a volcano? What is a cyclonic storm? Uncover the power of the world's most destructive natural disasters!
This text explains why natural disasters occur by interweaving the themes of Energy sources Plate tectonics climate change Earth Processes geologic time the complexities of multiple variables operating simultaneously throughout the text.
In this provocative book, Ilan Kelman argues that the true disaster is not caused by natural phenomena, but by human choices which leave people unprepared and at terrible risk.
emergency-response systems set up to minimize the emotional suffering and physical damage caused by such events.30 The timespan between warning of an impending catastrophe and its onset can determine the success or failure of a ...
6 Kenneth Miller, “Miracle Boy Survivor of the Haiti Earthquake,” Reader's Digest, February 2011, http://www.rd.com/true-stories/survival/miracleboy-survivor- of-the-haiti-earthquake. 7 Alpert, “Miracle Boy: 'I Smiled Because I Was ...
Describes a wide range of natural disasters including earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, volcanoes, landslides, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and epidemics.
Human history is replete with various types of natural disasters, some recent being Tsunami in Indian Ocean, Sichuan earthquake, Orissa super cyclone, and Katrina hurricane in the U.S. This book describes the characteristics and magnitude ...
49 Ethnicity and race emerge as an important factors in explaining vulnerability in studies by Regan (1983); Franke (1984); Perry and Mushkatel (1986); Bolin and Bolton (1986); Winchester (1986, 1992); Rubin and Palm (1987); Laird ...