Reduction And Predictability Of Natural Disasters

John B. Rundleis a professor of geological sciences and a Fellow in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is actively involved in founding the Colorado centre for Chaos and Complexity, a new teaching and research centre at the University of Colorado. Donald L. Turcotteis the Maxwell Upson Professor of Engineering in the Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is author of Fractals and Chaos in Geology and Geophysics and coauthor of Geodynamic sWilliam Kleinis professor of physics and engineering at Boston University. He is involved in the application of the methods of Statistical Mechanics to problems in Geophysics. John B. Rundleis a professor of geological sciences and a Fellow in the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is actively involved in founding the Coloradocentre for Chaos and Complexity, a new teaching and research centre at the University of Colorado. Donald L. Turcotteis the Maxwell Upson Professor of Engineering in the Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is author of Fractals and Chaos in Geology and Geophysics and coauthor of Geodynamics William Kleinis professor of physics and engineering at Boston University. He is involved in the application of the methods of Statistical Mechanics to problems in Geophysics.

Preface /J. B. Rundle, B. Klein, and D. L. Turcotte -- Societal Effects of Natural Disasters -- Scaling Laws for Natural Disaster Fatalities /S. F. Nishenko and C. C. Barton -- Global Fatalities from Earthquakes in the Pt 2000 Years: Prognosis for the Next /R. Bilham -- Floods and Landslides -- Diffusion-Limited Aggregation as a Paradigm for Modeling Dynamical Processes /L. M. Sander -- A Dynamical Systems Approach to Flood-Frequency Forecasting /D. L. Turcotte and K. Haselton -- Multiplicative Cascades and Spatial Variability in Rainfall, River Networks, and Floods /V. K. Gupta and E. Wayrnire -- Inference for a Channel Network Model and Implications for Flood Scaling /B. M. Troutman -- Thickness Statistics of Sedimentary Layers Generated by Gravity-Driven Flows /D. H. Rothman and J. P. Grotzinger -- Earthquakes -- Thoughts on Modeling and Prediction of Earthquakes /S. C. Eubank -- Complexity and Earthquake Forecasting /C. C. Sammis, D. Sornette, and H. SaZeur -- on the Scaling of Average Slip with Rupture Dimensions of Earthquakes /S. Gross -- Rupture Characteristics , Recurrence , and Predict ability in a Slider-Block Model for Earthquakes /Ja B. Rundle. W. Klein. and S. Gross -- A Comparison of Simple Eqrthquake Models: -- Self- Organized Criticality vs . Intermittent P hose Locking /A . V. He rz -- Spinodals and Scaling in Slider-Block Models /w. Klein, C. Ferguson, and J. B. Rundle -- A Hierarchical Model for Precursory Seismic Activation /w. L Newman, D. L. Turcotte, and A. Gabrielov -- Observation of Boltzmann Fluctuations in Stochastic, Massless Slider-Block Simulations /J. B. Rundle, W. Klein, and D. L. Turcotte -- Prediction Studies of Earthquake Falut Models and Applicat ions to Seismic Catalogs /J. Carison -- Index.