After more than 100 years of earthquake research, earthquake forecasting, which relies on
knowledge of past fault rupture patterns, has become the foundation for societal defense …

The study of palaeotsunamis preserved in the sedimentary record has developed over the
past three decades to a point where the criteria used to identify these events range from well …

This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment
of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The …

Random waves are the most important constituent of the sea environment, as they make the
design of maritime structures quite different from that of structures on land. In this book, the …

Flooding is a widely occurring natural hazard that noticeably damages property, people, and
the environment. In the context of climate change, the integration of spatial planning with …

Numerical modelling of transoceanic tsunami propagation, together with the detailed
modelling of inundation of small-scale coastal regions, poses a number of algorithmic …

Crossing disciplinary and chronological boundaries, Volunteer Tourism: Popular
Humanitarianism in Neoliberal Times is the first full-length treatment of volunteer tourism …

Abstract The Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 reached maximum wave heights
of 35 m in Aceh, the northernmost province of Sumatra,. Both the tsunami and the associated …

Abstract The devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami caught millions of coastal residents
and the scientific community off-guard. Subsequent research in the Indian Ocean basin has …

The new revised fifth edition of Natural Hazards remains the go-to introductory-level survey
intended for university and college courses that are concerned with earth processes that …