The Illustrated History of Natural Disasters

This richly illustrated pictorial history of natural disasters has been composed from a large selection of images of a wide variety of sources, mostly private collections. These include reproductions of rare engravings, maps both old and new, sketches, and diagrams. The individual full-page reproduc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Kozák, Jan (Autor), Cermák, Vladimir (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edición:1st ed. 2010.
Temas:
Natural disasters.
Physical geography.
Environment.
History.
Arts.
Natural Hazards.
Physical Geography.
Environmental Sciences.
Fine Art.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Tsunamis
  • Vesuvius-Somma Volcano, Bay of Naples, Italy
  • Etna Volcano, Sicily
  • Stromboli Volcano, Lipari, Tyrrhenian Sea
  • Phleghraean Fields
  • Santorin/Thira Volcano, Greece
  • Ferdinandea, a New Submarine Volcano
  • Volcanism in Iceland
  • Pico de Teide, Tenerife Island, Canary Archipelago
  • Mount Pelée Volcano, Martinique
  • Orizaba Volcano, Mexico
  • Jorullo Volcano, Mexico
  • Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala
  • Cotopaxi Volcano, Ecuador
  • Chimborazo Mountain, Ecuador
  • Antuco Volcano, Chile
  • Kusatsu-Shirane Mt., Japan, 1660s Eruption
  • Volcanoes of Indonesia
  • Gamkonoro Mt., Moluccas Islands
  • Avacha Volcano, Kamchatka, Far East Russia
  • Volcanoes of the Hawaiian Archipelago
  • Kiyev Earthquake, 1230
  • Aix-en-Provence Earthquake, 1708
  • Basel Earthquake, 1356
  • Rhodes Earthquake, 1481
  • Istanbul Earthquake, 1566
  • Two Earthquakes at Yedo (Tokyo), Around 1650 (?) and in 1855
  • Earthquake at Port Royal (Jamaica), 1692
  • Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
  • Calabrian Earthquakes of 1783 and Later On
  • Valona (Albania) Earthquake, 1851
  • Zagreb (Agram) Earthquake, Croatia, 1880
  • Two Earthquakes in Italy: Ischia 1881 and Casamicciola 1883
  • Imperia Earthquake, French/Italian Riviera, 1887
  • Earthquake at Shemakha, Azerbaijan, 1902
  • Submarine Explosion Near Juan Fernadez Island, Chile, in 1835 (or 1837)
  • Guadeloupe Earthquake, Antilles, 1843
  • San José Earthquake, Costa Rica, 1888
  • The 1861 Earthquake at Mendoza, Argentina
  • Arequipa/Arica Earthquake (Peru-Chile Border Zone), 1868
  • San Salvador Earthquake, Salvador, 1873
  • Charleston Earthquake, South Carolina, USA, 1886
  • Hayward Earthquake, 1868
  • The 1906 Great San Francisco Earthquake
  • Two Calabrian Earthquakes, 1905 and 1908
  • Milestones of Seismology.

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