ISNS 3359 Earthquakes & Volcanoes-Fall 2007 Selected Information Resources

A. Volcanoes

1. Some Web Sites

Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program

Volcano World (new site)

Jon Dehn’s Volcanic Homepage

Electronic Volcano

Cascades Volcano Observatory

Watch- active volcano satellite images

Australian volcanologist John Seach homepage

Volcano LiveCams (Europe)

Scottish Volcano Resource Listing and Links

European Volcanology Society

Canadian Volcanoes

2. Some Books

Encyclopedia of Volcanoes (H. Sigurdsson (ed), 2000, Academic Press)

Volcanoes of the World (T. Simkin & L. Siebert, 1994, Geoscience Press)

Vulcan’s Fury: Man against the Volcano (A. Scarth, 1999, Yale Univ. Press)

Volcanoes (M. Rosi, P. Papale, L. Lupi & M. Stoppato, 2003, Firefly Books)

Volcanoes: Crucibles of Change (R.V. Fisher & G. Heiken, 1997, Princton Univ. Press)

Volcanoes of Europe (A. Scarth, & C. Tanguy, 2001, OxfordUniv. Press)

Paleoclimate, Global Change, and the future (K. Alverson et sl., 2003, Springer)

Volcanism and the Earth’s Atmosphere (A. Robock & C. Oppenheimer, eds., 2003, AGU Geophys Monograph 139)

Volcanic Activity and Human Ecology (P.D. Sheetts & D.K. Grayson, eds., 1979, Academic)

B. Earthquake Resources

1. Some Web Sites

Latest Earthquake Listing

Earthquake Hazards Program

Virtual times Recent Earthquake & Volcano Info

Earthquake Data

IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology ) earthquakes

Central US Earthquake Information

Mid-America Earthquake Information

Extensive listing of seismology links

2. Some Books

Geology of Earthquakes (R.S. Yeats, C.R. Allen, C. Seih, 1996, Oxford Univ Press)

Planning for Earthquakes (P.B. Berke & T. Beatley, 1992, John Hopkins Univ Press)

Why the Earth Quakes (M. Levy & M. Salvadori, 1995, WW Norton & Co)

Earthquake Protection (A. Coburn & R. Spence, 2002, J Wiley)

Handbook of Seismology and Earthquakes

Earthquake Science & Seismic Risk Reduction (F. Mulargia & R. Geller, eds., 2003, Kluwer)

Early Earthquakes of the Americas (R.L. Kovach, 2004, Cambridge)

Living on an Active Earth, Perspectives on Earthquake Science (2003, NationalAcademies, National Research Council)

Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, prediction, and the fault line between reason & faith (D.L. Ulin, 2004, Viking)

Texas Earthquakes (C. Frohlich & S. Davis, 2002, UnivTX press)

The Destruction of Sodom, Gomorrah, and Jericho: Geological, Climatological, and archaeological background (D. Neev & K.O. Emery, 1995, Oxford)

C. Combined Earthquakes & Volcanoes or General Natural Hazards

1. Selected Web Sites(note some are commercial and will fill your screen with adverts, etc)

Natural Hazards Research andApplicationsInformationCenter

Hazards Data Resources Directory

NASAearth observatory

a 1 page summary of the world’s weekly natural disasters

Center for the Study of Geologic Risks

NASA’s Earth Science Portal

CBS News; lots of earthquake links, but sadly ignores volcanoes!

World map with latest disasters

Diverse Link Listing

/US governmental Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency

A listing of natural disaster facts and links from Italy

Asteroid and Comet Impact Hazards

Information about the Sun-Earth environment; solar flares, solar wind, etc.

2. Selected Books

Apocalypse: A natural History of Global Disasters (B. McGuire, 1999, Cassell)

Earthquakes & Volcanoes: Causes, Effects & Predictions (R. Muir Wood, 1987, Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

Furious Earth: The Science and Nature of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Tsunamis (E. J. Prager, K. Hutton, C. Synolakis, and S. Williams, 2000, McGraw-Hill).

Natural Disasters (P.L. Abbott, 2004, McGraw Hill)

Savage Earth: The dramatic story of volcanoes and earthquakes (A. Scarth, 1997, Harper Collins)

Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets (G. Schubert, D. Turcotte, P. Olson, 2001, Cambridge)

D. Tsunami Links

International Tsunami Information Center

UW Tsunami Details & Links

Tsunami Laboratory, Novosibirsk, Russia

NOAA Tsunami Research Program

USGS Tsunami Program

West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning System

PBS Waves of Destruction

The Tsunami Society - Online Journal Articles

for Tsunami Inundation Mapping

George Pararas-Carayannis Tsunami Pages

Univ. TX Inst. Geophysics Tsunami Modules

Tsunami Visualizations

26Dec2004 M9 Sumatra EQ & Indian Ocean Tsunami Summary & Links