Natural Disasters

  • Natural Disasters: What Can We Learn?
    By Karen Bush Gibson, Russell Roberts, Jim Whiting

    Natural Disasters: What Can We Learn?

  • Natural Disasters
    By David C. Alexander

    The Pearson Scales (developed by Alan Pearson at the National Severe Storms Forecast Center, at Kansas City in Missouri) classify length (PL) and width (PW) into six categories each. Thus, tornadoes observed in the USA are recorded with ...

  • Natural Disasters
    By Lee Allyn Davis

    Galanopoulos, A. G., and Bacon, Edward. ... General State Printing Office, the Hague: Malnutrition and Starvation in the Western Netherlands, September 1944/July 1945, ... Edgewood, New Jersey: Edgewood Publishing Co., 1889.

  • Natural disasters: Earthquakes
    By Jane Alison Walker

    ... 16 , 31 Wright , Frank Lloyd 27 Photographic credits : Cover , title page and pages 11 , 13 both , 20 , Library ; page 14 : with kind permission from 21 top and middle , 23 , 25 top right and the Earthquake Research Institute of the ...

  • Natural Disasters
    By Reader's Digest

    NATURAL DISASTERS Produced by Toucan Books Limited , London for The Reader's Digest Association Limited , London with Bradbury and Williams Written by Dougal Dixon Edited by Robert Sackville West and Helen Douglas - Cooper Picture ...

  • Natural Disasters: The Terrifying Forces of Nature
    By Karen Farrington

    Offers a pictorial look at some of nature's most devasting disasters, from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. to the deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma in 1999.

  • Natural Disasters
    By Claire O'Neal, Jim Whiting, Susan Harkins

    Full-color laminated covers - Side-sewn, reinforced library binding - Full Color photos throughout - Chronology - Further Reading - Works Consulted - Glossary - Index

  • Natural Disasters
    By David C. Alexander

    Hager, W. H. & R. Sinniger 1985. Flood storage in reservoirs. ... Krzystofowicz, R. & D. R. Davis 1983. A methodology for evaluation of flood ... Mogil, H. M., M. Rush, M. Kutka 1977. Lightning: a preliminary assessment.

  • Natural Disasters
    By David Alexander

    Hager, W. H. & R. Sinniger 1985. Flood storage in reservoirs. ... Krzystofowicz, R. & D. R. Davis 1983. A methodology for evaluation of flood ... Mogil, H. M., M. Rush, M. Kutka 1977. Lightning: a preliminary assessment.

  • Natural Disasters
    By David Phillips, Patrick L. Abbott, Claire Samson

    The book retains its focus on Earth's natural processes and the disasters that occur when the Earth concentrates its energy and releases it, causing death and destruction.

  • Natural Disasters: Unleashing the Fury of Nature
    By Karen Holden, Martin Holden

    Depicts the fury of earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and tornadoes, and discusses the changes in climactic conditions over the last few years

  • Natural Disasters
    By Patrick L. Abbott

    Throughout the book, certain themes are maintained: energy sources underlying disasters; plate tectonics and climate change; earth processes operating in rock, water, and atmosphere; significance of geologic time; complexities of multiple ...

  • Natural Disasters: Hurricanes
    By Pat J. Fitzpatrick

    Southern Louisiana Category 3 1 1974 , August 29– September 10 Carmen 4 Eloise makes landfall about midway between Fort Walton Beach and Panama City , Florida , early on September 23. Winds are estimated at about 100 mph with a storm ...

  • Natural Disasters
    By David Alexander

    Killian, H. & T. Graf-Baumann 1981. Cold and frost injuries: rewarming damages: biological, ... Olson, R. S. & R. A. Olson 1987. Urban heavy rescue. ... Scawthorn, C. Y. Yamada, H. Iemura 1981. A model for post-earthquake urban fire ...

  • Natural Disasters
    By Jennifer S. Rivers

    Natural Disasters

  • Natural Disasters
    By Richard O'Neill

    Natural Disasters

  • Natural Disasters: Recitation Manual Course Geol-0820
    By Michael Ramsey, Ph.D.

    Natural Disasters: Recitation Manual Course Geol-0820

  • Natural Disasters
    By David C. Alexander

    Another common misconception is that disasters are unique and exceptional events . On the contrary , many extreme geophysical events occur with a periodicity only slightly longer than the timespan of human memory ( perhaps 30–100 years ) ...

  • Natural Disasters
    By Judy Martin, Pat Clifford, Sherri Rinkel MacKay

    Natural Disasters

  • Natural Disasters: A Chapter Book
    By Madeline Boskey

    Introduces how scientists study and learn from natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, El Nino, and volcanoes.