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Anatomy of Seismograms
Elsevier Science 1990; US$ 140.00Frequent updating of existing interpretation codes and routines is a prerequisite for modern seismogram interpretation and research. The primary goal of this book is to present in a rather tutorial form all the necessary information and techniques pertinent to essential seismogram interpretation. The treatment is descriptive rather then mathematical,... more...
Natural Disasters in a Global Environment
Wiley 2013; US$ 38.95Natural Disasters in a Global Environment is a transnational, global and environmental history of natural and man-made disasters. Detailed case studies of past and present events are presented in a historical narrative, making use of the most recent scholarship. Examines a range of disasters including volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, landslides,... more...
Earthquake Protection
Wiley 2003; US$ 140.00Since the publication of the successful first edition of Earthquake Protection there have been 110 lethal earthquakes, killing 130 000 people; there have also been significant developments in the field of earthquake risk management, particularly in the modelling and analysis of risk for insurance and financial services. Furthermore, major earthquake... more...
The White Death
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2002; US$ 13.00In 1969, five young men from Montana set out to accomplish what no one had before: to scale the sheer north face of Mt. Cleveland, Glacier National Park's tallest mountain, in winter. Two days later tragedy struck: they were buried in an avalanche so deep that their bodies would not be discovered until the following June. The White Death is the... more...
Asistencia humanitaria en caso de desastres
Pan American Health Organization 1999; US$ 12.00Esta nueva Guía combina y pone al día varias publicaciones que la OPS había editado en los últimos 15 años. more...
VESUVIUS
Elsevier Science 2006; US$ 142.95VESUVIUS 2000 is an interdisciplinary project aimed at producing a safe and prosperous habitat for the people living around Vesuvius. To produce this environment requires an effective collaboration between the experts and the public, whereby the danger from the volcano is used to reorganize the territory and thus produce new opportunities for the people... more...
Wave Fields in Real Media
Elsevier Science 2007; US$ 210.00This book examines the differences between an ideal and a real description of wave propagation, where ideal means an elastic (lossless), isotropic and single-phase medium, and real means an anelastic, anisotropic and multi-phase medium. The analysis starts by introducing the relevant stress-strain relation. This relation and the equations of momentum... more...
Impacto de los desastres en la salud publica
Pan American Health Organization 2000; US$ 30.00Este libro, ilustrado con múltiples ejemplos de investigaciones de campo, resume la información más pertinentes y útil del impacto de los desastres en la salud pública. Está dividido en cuatro secciones que tratan asuntos generales, eventos geofísicos, problemas relacionados con el clima y desastres generados por el hombre. La discusión se inicia con... more...
Principles of Disaster Mitigation in Health Facilities
Pan American Health Organization 2000; US$ 25.00The book focuses on problems encountered in areas of high risk for seismic events. It introduces the essential aspects of carrying out vulnerability assessments and applying practical measures to mitigate damage in hospitals, addressing structural and nonstructural aspects, as well as administrative and internal organization. more...
Ionospheric Precursors of Earthquakes
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 139.99Explains the variations of near-Earth plasma observed over seismically active areas several days/hours before strong seismic shocks. more...









