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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kozk̀, Jan. (Author), <U+000c>ermk̀, Vladimr̕. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
Subjects:
Geography.
Geology.
Physical geography.
Life sciences.
History.
Humanities.
Earth Sciences.
Natural Hazards.
Physical Geography.
Popular Science in Nature and Environment.
Fine Arts.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3325-3
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Natural disasters in historical pictures
  • Pictorial reproduction techniques
  • Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis
  • From ancient myths, through medieval perceptions to present understanding
  • Volcanoes
  • Earthquakes
  • Tsunamis
  • Plate Tectonic Theory
  • 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
  • Mt. Pelě volcano, Martinique Orizaba volcano, Mexico
  • Jorullo volcano, Mexico
  • Pacaya volcano, Guatemala
  • Cotopaxi volcano, Ecuador
  • Chimborazo Mt., Ecuador
  • Antujo volcano, Chile
  • Kusatsu-Shirane Mt. 1660s eruption, Japan
  • Volcanoes of Indonesia
  • Gamkonoro Mt., Moluccas Islands
  • Avacha volcano, Kamchatka, Far East Russia
  • Volcanoes of the Hawaiian Archipelago
  • Kiyev Earthquake, 1230
  • Aix-de-Provence (France) Earthquake, 1708
  • Basel Earthquake, 1356
  • Rhodes (Greece) Earthquake, 1481
  • Istanbul Earthquake, 1566
  • Two earthquakes at Yedo (Tokyo), around 1650 (?) and 1855
  • Earthquake at Port Royal (Jamaica) in 1692
  • Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
  • Calabrian earthquakes of 1783 and later on
  • Valona (Albania) earthquake, 1851
  • Zagreb (=Agram) earthquake, 1880
  • Two earthquakes In Italy: 1881 (Ischia) and 1883 (Casamicciola)
  • Imperia earthquake (French/Italian Riviera), 1887
  • Earthquake at Shemakha, Azerbaijan, 1902
  • Submarine explosion near the Juan Fernadez Island, 1835 (OR 1837)
  • Guadeloupe (Antilles) earthquake 1843
  • Earthquake at San Jose (Costa Rica), 1868
  • Mendoza (Argentina) earthquake, 1861
  • Arequipa/Arica earthquake, 1868
  • San Salvador earthquake, 1873
  • Charleston earthquake (South Carolina, USA), 1886
  • Hayward (California, USA) earthquake, 1868
  • Great San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
  • Two Calabrian earthquakes, 1905 and 1908
  • Milestones of seismology
  • References
  • Index.

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