GE4150 Natural Hazards-Related Resources

Internet Resources

General Natural Hazards Information

• USGS Natural Hazards Gateway
• USGS Current Natural Hazards Map
• NASA's Natural Hazards (current hazards)

Disaster Hazards and Warnings

• Effective Disaster Warnings - report to the president on national hazard warning capabilities
• Federal Communications Commission Emergency Alert System (EAS)
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• MTU Ecological Monitoring and Mapping Laboratory - GIS and remote sensing resources and links
• USGS (Natural Hazards Support System
• CU Boulder's Natural Hazards Center
• National Academies Press Reducing Disaster Loss Through Better Information
• NASA Earth Observatory Natural Hazards Images

Flooding

• National Academies Press Hydrologic Hazards Science at the USGS
• Living with the Lakes - human impacts on the Great Lakes
• Coastal Louisiana hazard planning task force report - Coast 2050
• National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Center Tsunami news and information
• USGS Real-Time Water Data - hundreds of gaged rivers in the U.S.

GIS and Remote Sensing-Related

• ESRI Arcview applications
• ESRI free GIS data download site
• ESRI articles on DEM, DLG data downloading and Terrain Modeling here
• USGS Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and Digital Raster Graphics (DRG) free downloads
• National Atlas map data (www.nationalatlas.gov)

Landslides

• Landslide and other map data
• USGS Landslide Hazards Program (landslides.usgs.gov)

Earthquakes

• USGS Earthquake Hazards Program - earthquake information and educational resources
• Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) - earthquake information and educational resources
• Earthqake Engineering Research Institute - reports on seismic studies, earthquake reports

Volcanoes

• International Volcanic Health Hazard Network - information on health hazards
• USGS Volcano Hazards Program - volcanic activity (U.S.) and educational resources
• Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program - volcanic activity and historical information

Bibliography of Journal Articles and Books

Flooding

Carloxicz, M. (1996) Controlled flood of Colorado River creates stream of data. Eos Transactions AGU, v. 77, 225-230.

Collier, M., R.H. Webb, and J.C. Schmidt (1997) Dams and Rivers: A Primer on the Downstream Effects of Dams. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1126.

Denning, J. (1994) When the levee breaks. Civil and Environmental Engineering, January, 38-41.

Fischetti, M. (2001) Drowning New Orleans. Scientific American, October issue, 76-85.

Mason, R. (1999) The Three Gorges Dam of the Yangtze River, China: engineering geology in China. Geology Today, v. 15, 30-33.

MacPhee, J. (1989) The Control of Nature. The Noonday Press, New York, 272 pages.

Myers, M.F. And G.F. White (1993) The challenge of the Mississipppi flood. Environment, v. 35, 6-35.

Newbury, R. (1995) Rivers and the art of stream restoration. Natural and Anthropogenic Influences in Fluvial Geomorphology, Geophysical Monograph 89, American Geophysical Union, 137-148.

Pacchioli, D. (1996) Before the flood. Research/Penn State, September issue, 24-28.

Parker, D. (1999) Flood. Natural Disaster Management, J. Ingleton, ed., Tudor Rose Holdings, Limited, 38-40.

Parrett, C., N.B. Melcher, and R.W. James, Jr. (1993) Flood discharges in the Upper Mississippi River basin, 1993. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1120-A, 14 pages.

Stevens, M.A., D.B. Simons, and S.A. Schumm (1975) Man-induced changes of middle Mississippi River. Journal of the Waterways Harbors and Coastal Engineering Division, WW2, 119-133.

Hazard Mitigation/Response/Warning (General)

Ernst, W.G. (2001) The increasing severity of circumpacific natural disasters. International Geology Review, 43, 380-390.

Fothergill, A. (2000) Knowledge transfer between researchers and practitioners. Natural Hazards Review, May, 91-98.

Geis, D.E. (2000) By design: The disaster resistant and quality-of-life community. Natural Hazards Review, August, 151-160.

Guptill, S.C. (2001) Disease aftershocks - the health effects of natural disasters. International Geology Review, 43, 419-423.

Hecker, E.J., W. Irwin, D. Cottrell, and A. Bruzewicz (2000) Strategies for improving response and recovery in the future. Natural Hazards Review, August, 161-170.

Mileti, D.S. (1999) Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, D.C., 351 pages.

Passerini, E. (2001) Who is to blame for the failures of sustainable reconstruction projects? Natural Hazards Review, May, 45-53.

Prater, C.S. And M.K. Lindell (2000) Politics of hazard mitigation. Natural Hazards Review, May, 73-82.

Sarewitz, D., R. Pielke, Jr., and R. Byerly, Jr. (1999) Prediction: a process, not a product. Geotimes, April issue, 29-31.

Sorensen, J.H. (2000) Hazard warning systems: Review of 20 years of progress. Natural Hazards Review, May, 119-125.

Stafford, J.M. (1998) Geoscience and law: strange bedfellows or interdisciplinary teambuilding? Geotimes, May issue, 18-22.

GIS

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (1996) Getting to Know ArcView GIS. ESRI Press, Redlands, CA.

Sakellariou, M.G. And M.D. Ferentinou (2001) GIS-based estimation of slope stability. Natural Hazards Review, February, 12-21.

Soller, D.R. and T. M. Berg (1997) The national geologic map database - a progress report. Geotimes, December issue, 29-31.

Stoney, W.E. (1997) Data deluge - the satellites are coming. Geotimes, October issue, 18-22.

Earthquakes

Adams, R. (1999) Earthquake. Natural Disaster Management, J. Ingleton, ed., Tudor Rose Holdings, Limited, 52-54.

Allen, R. (2008) At First Jolt: Will we have warnings for the next big earthquake?, Earth, Oct., pp 52-59. PDF

Allen, R. (2007) Earthquake Hazard Mitigation: New Direcions and Opportunities, In "Treatise on Geophysics", Vol 4, pp 607-647. PDF

Bolt, B.A. (1978) Earthquakes: A Primer. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, 241 pages.

Brumbaugh, D.S. (1999) Earthquakes - Science and Society. Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 251 pages.

Dames and Moore, (19??) A special report on the January 17, 1994 Northridge earthquake.

Gohn and others (1983) Studies related to the Charleston, South Carolina, Earthquake of 1886 - Tectonics and Seismicity. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1313.

Hansen, W.R. (1965) Effects of the Earthquake of March 27, 1964 at Anchorage, Alaska. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 542-A, 68 pages.

Hester, N.C., I. Satterfield,and R. Bauer (1999) Partnerships for the Central United States: Consortia aim to mitigate potential losses in the central United States if another New Madrid hits. Geotimes, November issue, 14-18.

Johnson, S.Y., S.V. Dadisman, J.R. Childs, and W.D. Stanley(1999) Active tectonics of the Seattle fault and central Puget Sound, Washington - Implications for earthquake hazards. GSA Bulletin, v. 111, 1042-1053.

Malone, S.D. (2008) Opinion: A Warning About Early Warning. Seismological Research Letters, vol 79, no. 4. PDF

Murphy, L.M. (1973) San Fernando, California, Earthquake of February 9, 1971, Volume II: Utilities, Transportation, and Sociological Aspects. U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 432 pages.

Murphy, L.M. (1973) San Fernando, California, Earthquake of February 9, 1971, Volume III: Geological and Geophysical Studies. U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 325 pages.

Scholz, C. (1997) Whatever happened to earthquake prediction? Geotimes, March issue, 16-19.

Van Arsdale, R. (1997) Hazard in the heartland: the New Madrid seismic zone. Geotimes, May issue, 16-19.

Zeizel, A.J. (1998) Links across the Pacific rim: U.S.-Japan earthquake loss prevention strategies. Geotimes, April issue, 20-23.

Volcanoes

Blong, R. (1999) Volcano. Natural Disaster Management, J. Ingleton, ed., Tudor Rose Holdings, Limited, 54-57.

Connor, C.B., B.E. Hill, B. Winfrey, N.M. Franklin, and P.C. La Femina (2001) Estimation of volcanic hazards from tephra fallout. Natural Hazards Review, February, 33-42.

IAVCEI Subcommittee for Crisis Protocols (1999) Professional conduct of scientists during volcanic crises. Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 60, 323-334.

Luhr, J.F. And T. Simkin (1993) Paricutin: the Volcano Born in a Mexican Cornfield. Geoscience Press, Inc., Phoenix, 426 pages.

Mattioli, G.S., P.E. Jansma, L. Jaramillo, and A.L. Smith (1996) A desktop image processing and photogrammetric method for rapid volcanic hazard mapping: application to air-photo interpretation of Mount Pelee, Martinique. Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 58, 401-410.

McCormick, M.P., L.W. Thomason and C.R. Trepte (1995) Atmospheric effects of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption. Nature, v. 373, 399-404.

Rodzilsky, J.L. (2001) Second hazards assessment and sustainable hazards mitigation: Disaster recovery on Montserrat. Natural Hazards Review, May, 64-71.

Simkin, T. (1993) Terrestrial volcanism in space and time. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science, v. 21, 427-452.

Steenblik, J.W. (1990) Volcanic ash: a rain of terra. Journal of the Airline Pilots Association, v. 59, 9-56.

Tilling, R.I. And P.W. Lipman (1993) Lessons in reducing volcano risk. Nature, v. 364, 277-280.

Voight, JVGR Special Issue

Wright, T.L. And T.C. Pierson (1992) Living With Volcanoes. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1073, 57 pages.