Volcanology & seismology books

1320 books were found.

Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Sea 2000 B.C.-2000 A.D.

Tsunamis in the Mediterranean Sea 2000 B.C.-2000 A.D....

Author: Sergey L. Soloviev ,  Olga N. Solovieva
ISBN: 9780792365488
Format: Hardback
$314.16

This volume contains descriptions of about 300 tsunami and of similar known phenomena in the Mediterranean Sea....  Read More >>

Out of the Crater: Chronicles of a Volcanologist

Out of the Crater: Chronicles of a Volcanologist

Author: Richard V. Fisher
ISBN: 9780691070179
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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Advances in Seismic Event Location

Advances in Seismic Event Location

Author: Cliffort H. Thurber ,  Nitzan Rabinowitz
ISBN: 9780792363927
Format: Hardback
$382.80

Advances in Seismic Event Location provides a broad overview of the fundamental issues involved in seismic event...  Read More >>

Volcaniclastic Rocks, from Magmas to Sediments

Volcaniclastic Rocks, from Magmas to Sediments

Author: H Leyrit ,  C Montenat
ISBN: 9789056992781
Format: Hardback
$192.00

This volume examines the production, transport and deposition of volcaniclasts (tephra and epiclasts) as well as...  Read More >>

Izmit (Kocaeli) Turkey Earthquake of August 17 1999, Including Duzce Earthquake: Lifeline Performance

Izmit (Kocaeli) Turkey Earthquake of August 17 1999,...

Author: Alex K. Tang
ISBN: 9780784404942
Format: Paperback
$313.09

The Earthquake Investigation Committee of the Technical Council of Lifeline Earthquake Engineering (TCLEE), sent...  Read More >>

Statistical Methods for Earthquake Hazard Assessment and Risk Analysis

Statistical Methods for Earthquake Hazard Assessment...

Author: G. R. Dargahi-Noubary
ISBN: 9781560727705
Format: Paperback
$208.56

Hazard assessment and risk analysis of natural disasters requires detailed analysis of the available information....  Read More >>

Computer Simulation of Earthquake Effects: Processing of Sessions of Geo-Denver 2000 Held in Denver, Colorado, August 5-8, 2000

Computer Simulation of Earthquake Effects: Processing...

Author: Kandiah Arulanandan ,  A. Anandarajah
ISBN: 9780784405239
Format: Paperback
$157.84

Presents nondestructive site characterization and property evaluation, constitutive modeling and numerical procedures,...  Read More >>

Methods and Applications of Inversion

Methods and Applications of Inversion

Author: Per C. Hansen ,  Bo H. Jacobsen
ISBN: 9783540659167
Format: Paperback
$332.64

This collection of conference papers describes state-of-the-art methodologies and algorithms used in the treatment...  Read More >>

Moment Resistant Connections of Steel Frames in Seismic Areas: Design and Reliability

Moment Resistant Connections of Steel Frames in Seismic...

Author: Federico Mazzolani
ISBN: 9780415235778
Format: Hardback
$345.00

This volume results from a European project dealing with the 'reliability of moment resistant connections of steel...  Read More >>

Implications Of Recent Earthquakes On Seismic Risk

Implications Of Recent Earthquakes On Seismic Risk

Author: Stelios Antoniou (Imperial College, London, Uk) ,  Amr Salah Eldin Elnashai (Univ Of Illinois At Urbana-champaign, Usa)
ISBN: 9781860942334
Format: Hardback
$190.08

In this work, a number of international earthquake engineers make contributions largely based on lessons from recent...  Read More >>

Some Buildings Just Can't Dance: Politics, Life Safety, and Disaster

Some Buildings Just Can't Dance: Politics, Life Safety,...

Author: Richard Stewart Olson ,  Robert A. Olson
ISBN: 9780762305285
Format: Hardback
$295.95

Places Oakland's public policy response to building damage suffered in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in a historical...  Read More >>

Seismic Hazard of the Circum-Pannonian Region

Seismic Hazard of the Circum-Pannonian Region

Author: Giuliano F. Panza ,  Mircea Radulian
ISBN: 9783764362638
Format: Paperback
$168.83

Maximum displacements, velocities, and, based on the European Build­ ing Code EC8, design ground acceleration maps...  Read More >>

Chi Chi Taiwan Earthquake of September 21, 1999: Lifeline Performance

Chi Chi Taiwan Earthquake of September 21, 1999: Lifeline...

Author: Anshel J. Schiff ,  Alex K. Tang
ISBN: 9780784405369
Format: Paperback
$217.22

On September 21, 1999 central Taiwan was struck by a devastating earthquake resulting in over 2400 deaths, thousands...  Read More >>

Remote Sensing of Active Volcanism

Remote Sensing of Active Volcanism

Author: Peter J. Mouginis-Mark ,  Joy A. Crisp
ISBN: 9780875900995
Format: Hardback
$137.95

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 116. Remote sensing...  Read More >>

Dynamic Analysis and Earthquake Resistant Design

Dynamic Analysis and Earthquake Resistant Design

Author: Japanese Society of Civil Engineers
ISBN: 9789054102922
Format: Hardback
$215.00

The second volume in a projected series on dynamic analysis and earthquake resistant design, this text includes...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Volcanoes

Encyclopedia of Volcanoes

Author: Haraldur Sigurdsson (University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island, U.S.A.) ,  Bruce Houghton (National Disaster Preparedness Training Center, University of Hawaii, Manoa, HI, USA)
ISBN: 9780126431407
Format: Hardback
$343.20

The Encyclopedia of Volcanoes summarizes our present knowledge of volcanoes. Through its thematic organization around...  Read More >>

Seismic Exploration of the Deep Continental Crust: Methods and Concepts of DEKORP and Accompanying Projects

Seismic Exploration of the Deep Continental Crust: Methods...

Author: Dirk Gajewski ,  Wolfgang Rabbel
ISBN: 9783764362102
Format: Paperback
$168.83

DEKORP, the German continental reflection seismic program, was a focus of seismic research in Germany in the 1980s...  Read More >>

Shared Risk: Complex Systems in Seismic Response

Shared Risk: Complex Systems in Seismic Response

Author: Louise K. Comfort
ISBN: 9780080432113
Format: Hardback
$350.95

Shared Risk is an unparalleled study of how communities at risk respond to major hazards. This book explores the...  Read More >>

Seismicity Patterns, their Statistical Significance and Physical Meaning

Seismicity Patterns, their Statistical Significance...

Author: Max Wyss ,  Kunihiko Shimazaki
ISBN: 9783764362096
Format: Paperback
$253.44

9, 1986, Andreanof Islands earthquake was a confirmation of Reid's rebound theory of earthquakes and thus of the...  Read More >>

Earthquake-actuated Automatic Gas Shutoff Devices (25-97)

Earthquake-actuated Automatic Gas Shutoff Devices (25-97)...

Author: American Society of Civil Engineers Staf
ISBN: 9780784403549
Format: Paperback
$93.02

Provides minimum functionality requirements for earthquake-actuated automatic gas shutoff devices and systems meant...  Read More >>

Hyogoken-Nanbu (Kobe) Earthquake of January 17, 1995: Lifeline Performance

Hyogoken-Nanbu (Kobe) Earthquake of January 17, 1995:...

Author: Anshel J. Schiff ,  Anshel J. Schiff
ISBN: 9780784404089
Format: Paperback
$307.91

Talks about the Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquake that struck the Kobe, Japan area. The earthquake and subsequent fires...  Read More >>

Guidelines for the Seismic Evaluation and Upgrade of Water Transmission Facilities

Guidelines for the Seismic Evaluation and Upgrade of...

Author: John M. Eidinger ,  Ernesto A. Avila
ISBN: 9780784404164
Format: Paperback
$131.96

Provides guidelines for the seismic evaluation and retrofit of water transmission infrastructure, including aqueducts,...  Read More >>

Time Series with Applications to Seismology

Time Series with Applications to Seismology

Author: G R Dargagi-Noubary
ISBN: 9781560726104
Format: Hardback
$224.40

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Wave Motion in Earthquake Engineering

Wave Motion in Earthquake Engineering

Author: G.D. Manolis ,  Eduardo Kausel
ISBN: 9781853127441
Format: Hardback
$501.98

Containing state-of-the-art information on developments in seismic wave propogation, this volume features invited...  Read More >>

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