Global Volcanic Hazards and Risk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Volcanic Hazards and Risk write by Susan C. Loughlin. This book was released on 2015-07-24. Global Volcanic Hazards and Risk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive assessment of global volcanic hazards and risk, with detailed regional profiles, for the disaster risk reduction community. Also available as Open Access.
Eruption!
Eruption! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eruption! write by Elizabeth Rusch. This book was released on 2013-06-18. Eruption! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “At 11:35 p.m., as Radio Armero played cheerful music, a towering wave of mud and rocks bulldozed through the village, roaring like a squadron of fighter jets.” Twenty-three thousand people died in the 1985 eruption of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz. Today, more than one billion people worldwide live in volcanic danger zones. In this riveting nonfiction book—filled with spectacular photographs and sidebars—Rusch reveals the perilous, adrenaline-fueled, life-saving work of an international volcano crisis team (VDAP) and the sleeping giants they study, from Colombia to the Philippines, from Chile to Indonesia.
Living Under the Shadow
Living Under the Shadow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living Under the Shadow write by John Grattan. This book was released on 2016-06-03. Living Under the Shadow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contributors to this volume—from anthropology, archaeology, environmental studies, geology, and biology—show that human societies have been incredibly resilient and adaptive from the impacts of volcanic eruptions over human history and prehistory.
Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest, Precursors, and Timing
Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest, Precursors, and Timing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest, Precursors, and Timing write by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. This book was released on 2017-07-24. Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest, Precursors, and Timing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volcanic eruptions are common, with more than 50 volcanic eruptions in the United States alone in the past 31 years. These eruptions can have devastating economic and social consequences, even at great distances from the volcano. Fortunately many eruptions are preceded by unrest that can be detected using ground, airborne, and spaceborne instruments. Data from these instruments, combined with basic understanding of how volcanoes work, form the basis for forecasting eruptionsâ€"where, when, how big, how long, and the consequences. Accurate forecasts of the likelihood and magnitude of an eruption in a specified timeframe are rooted in a scientific understanding of the processes that govern the storage, ascent, and eruption of magma. Yet our understanding of volcanic systems is incomplete and biased by the limited number of volcanoes and eruption styles observed with advanced instrumentation. Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest, Precursors, and Timing identifies key science questions, research and observation priorities, and approaches for building a volcano science community capable of tackling them. This report presents goals for making major advances in volcano science.
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond write by Robin George Andrews. This book was released on 2021-11-02. Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exhilarating, time-traveling journey to the solar system’s strangest and most awe-inspiring volcanoes. Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon, and can even tip entire planets over. Between lava that melts and re-forms the landscape, and noxious volcanic gases that poison the atmosphere, volcanoes have threatened life on Earth countless times in our planet’s history. Yet despite their reputation for destruction, volcanoes are inseparable from the creation of our planet. A lively and utterly fascinating guide to these geologic wonders, Super Volcanoes revels in the incomparable power of volcanic eruptions past and present, Earthbound and otherwise—and recounts the daring and sometimes death-defying careers of the scientists who study them. Science journalist and volcanologist Robin George Andrews explores how these eruptions reveal secrets about the worlds to which they belong, describing the stunning ways in which volcanoes can sculpt the sea, land, and sky, and even influence the machinery that makes or breaks the existence of life. Walking us through the mechanics of some of the most infamous eruptions on Earth, Andrews outlines what we know about how volcanoes form, erupt, and evolve, as well as what scientists are still trying to puzzle out. How can we better predict when a deadly eruption will occur—and protect communities in the danger zone? Is Earth’s system of plate tectonics, unique in the solar system, the best way to forge a planet that supports life? And if life can survive and even thrive in Earth’s extreme volcanic environments—superhot, superacidic, and supersaline surroundings previously thought to be completely inhospitable—where else in the universe might we find it? Traveling from Hawai‘i, Yellowstone, Tanzania, and the ocean floor to the moon, Venus, and Mars, Andrews illuminates the cutting-edge discoveries and lingering scientific mysteries surrounding these phenomenal forces of nature.
