Earthquake and Atmospheric Hazards : Preparedness Studies

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made Hazards. They deal with scientific and management issues of earthquakes and atmospheric hazards that occurred during the late 1990s, with emphasis on the preparedness aspects.

Preface; M.I. El-Sabh, et al. Complexity Theory of Natural Disasters: Boundaries of Self-Structured Domains; A.E. Scheidegger. March 1990 Hailstorm Damage in Sydney, Australia; K.E. Andrews, R.J. Blong. A Test of the Cyclicity of Earthquakes; G.R. Dargahi-Noubary. Climate Change, Extreme Events and the Canadian Insurance Industry; R. White, D. Etkin. Problems for Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis; D.H. Speidel, P.H. Mattson. Atmospheric Hazards Preparedness in Bangladesh: A Study of Warming, Adjustments and Recovery from the April 1991 Cyclone; C.E. Haque. Estimation of Response Spectra in the Severely Damaged Area During the 1995 Hyogo-Ken Nambu Earthquake; T. Sato, et al. Federal Legislation for Disaster Mitigation: A Comparative Assessment Between Canada and the United States; J. Newton. 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; R.E. Kayen, J.K. Mitchell. The Behaviour of a Man-Made Island During the Great Hanshin Earthquake, Japan; Y. Tanaka. Mexico, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Kobe: What Next? C. Lomnitz. Meeting Report: Hazards-96: Concluding Plenary Session and Discussion; M.L. Khandekar.