Natural disasters in a global environment - Penna, Anthony N.; Rivers, Jennifer S. (Chichester, West Sussex, Eng. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
Supervolcanoes. The Mt. Toba eruption (73,000 BP) -- The Thera (Santorini) eruption in Aegean Sea (1600 BCE) -- Mt. Tambora (1815) and Krakatau (1883) -- The Mt. Pinatubo eruption (1991) -- A threatening future scenario -- Earthquakes. The San Francisco earthquake (1906) -- The Great Kanto earthquake (1923) -- The Haitian earthquake (2010) -- Tsunamis. Lisbon, Portugal : the Quadruple disaster (1755) -- The Lituya Bay Mega-tsunami (1958) -- The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake (2004) -- The Tohoku (Japan) tsunami (2011) -- Fire. The burning of Rome (68 CE) -- The Great fire of London (1666) -- The Chicago and Peshtigo fires (1871) -- Floods. Central China floods (1931) -- The Dutch flood disaster (1953) -- The Bangladesh floods (1997-98) -- Landslides. The Turtle Mountain landslide, Canada (1903) -- The Aberfan landslide, Wales (1966) -- The Ancash earthquake and landslide, Peru (1970) -- The Southern Leyte landslide, the Philippines (2006) -- Pandemic diseases. The Bubonic Plaque (1347-51 and after) -- The Great Influenza pandemic (1918-20) -- HIV/AIDS (1985-) -- Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons. The Labor Day hurricane in the Florida Keys (1935) -- The Bhola cyclone (1970) -- Super-typhoon Nina (1975) -- Famines and droughts. The Irish Potato famine (1945-51) -- The "Dust Bowl" drought in the American West (1930-40) -- The Great Leap Forward Chinese famine (1958-61) -- Meteorite impacts. The creation of earth's moon and the origins of meteorites -- the Yucatan Chicxulub crater, Mexico (65 MYA) -- The Clovis extinction (12,500-12,900 BP) -- The Tunguska (Siberia) event (1908) -- Investigating future impacts.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Natural disasters -- History; Environmental disasters -- History; Natural disasters -- Environmental aspects