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  title info:
    title: Plate boundaries and natural hazards / João C. Duarte, Wouter P. Schellart, editors
  name:
    name part: Duarte, João C.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Schellart, Wouter P.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: American Geophysical Union
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 335 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
  abstract: The beginning of the new millennium has been particularly devastating in terms of natural disasters associated with tectonic plate boundaries, such as earthquakes in Sumatra, Chile, Japan, Tahiti and Nepal, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean tsunamis and volcanoes in Indonesia, Chile, Iceland that have produced large quantities of ash causing major disruption to aviation. In total, half a million people were killed by such natural disasters. These recurring events have increased our awareness of the destructive power of natural hazards and the major risks associated with them. While we have come a long way in the search for understanding such natural phenomena, and although our knowledge of Earth dynamics and plate tectonics has improved enormously, there are still fundamental uncertainties in our understanding of natural hazards. Increased understanding is crucial to improve our capacity for hazard prediction and mitigation.
  note: "This work is a co-publication between the American Geophysical Union and John Wiley and Sons, Inc."
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Plate tectonics
  subject:
    topic: Earthquake zones
  subject:
    topic: Natural disasters
  classification: 551.1/36
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Geophysical monograph ; 219
  identifier: 1119053978
  identifier: 9781119053972
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    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 150525
    record change date: 20170926150215.0
    record identifier: in00003737214