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  1. Hazards from Floods

    Stark contrast between “droughts and flooding rains” has long been known in Australia. In January 1974, monsoons rolling in from the Timor Sea moved...
    Bruce A. Bolt, W. L. Horn, ... R. F. Scott in Geological Hazards
    Chapter 1977

  2. Hazards from Earthquakes

    During the late afternoon of Good Friday, 1964, at 17:36 h local time, a great earthquake struck the sparsely inhabited mountainous area of northern...
    Bruce A. Bolt, W. L. Horn, ... R. F. Scott in Geological Hazards
    Chapter 1977

  3. Landslides — Cause and effect

    Landslides can cause seismic disturbances; landslides can also result from seismic disturbances, and earthquake-induced slides have caused loss of...

    Radbruch-Hall D. H., Varnes D. J. in Bulletin of the International Association of Engineering Geology - Bulletin de l'Association Internationale de Géologie de l'Ingénieur
    Article 01 June 1976

  4. Hazards from Floods

    Stark contrast between “droughts and flooding rains” has long been known in Australia. In January 1974, monsoons rolling in from the Timor Sea moved...
    B. A. Bolt, W. L. Horn, ... R. F. Scott in Geological Hazards
    Chapter 1975

  5. Man-Made Climatic Changes

    The climatic elements, such as temperature and precipitation, fluctuate naturally on a global, regional, and local scale. These fluctuations are of...
    H. E. Landsberg in The Changing Global Environment
    Chapter 1975

  6. Hazards from Earthquakes

    During the late afternoon of Good Friday, 1964, at 17:36 h local time, a great earthquake struck the sparsely inhabited mountainous area of northern...
    B. A. Bolt, W. L. Horn, ... R. F. Scott in Geological Hazards
    Chapter 1975

  7. Effects of Weather on Railroad Operation, Maintenance, and Construction

    The railroad section of this monograph presents a condensed version of a study to determine the effects of weather factors on railroad maintenance...
    W. W. Hay in Industrial Operations under Extremes of Weather
    Chapter 1957

  8. Applied Climatology

    Definition. If we consider climate as the statistical collective of individual conditions of weather, we can define applied climatology as the...
    Helmut E. Landsberg, Woodrow C. Jacobs in Compendium of Meteorology
    Chapter 1951

  9. The 1959 and 1960 eruptions of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, and the construction of walls to restrict the spread of the lava flows

    A summit eruption of Kilauea volcano took place in Kilauea Iki crater, immediately adjacent to Kilauea caldera, from November 14 to December 20,...

    Gordon A. Macdonald in Bulletin Volcanologique
    Article 01 December 1962
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