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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Mapping Disasters -- Predicting Floods Using Maps -- Earthquakes! -- Volcanoes! -- Dangerous Winds! -- Wind and Fire -- Avoiding Shipwrecks -- Mining Disasters -- Tsunami Waves -- Hot, Dry Weather -- Predicting Disasters -- Avalanche! -- Monitoring the Weather -- Glossary -- Read More -- Index -- Answers -- Back Cover

This article examines why disasters of similar types differentially affect countries throughout the world. Despite a plethora of studies in the disaster field, such a theme has hitherto not been systematically pursued. Concepts of government effectiveness, government instability, available resources, and social context are incorporated into a structural model that seeks to explain differentials in impact. A derivative measurement model is tested using a merged data archive based on the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)'s Disaster History Update Program and Banks' Cross-National Time Series. The model holds well for five disaster categories (accident, volcano, earthquake, drought, epidemic), modestly for two more (storm and flood), and fails to explain differences only for landslide and fire.

Even though natural disasters often seem inexplicable, this text takes these destructive events caused by forces of nature and describes the fundamental science behind their occurrences. Captivating diagrams and photographs show what natural disasters such as volcanoes, hurricanes, and avalanches look like, while text boxes encourage readers to compare and contrast the causes and outcomes of these devastating incidents. Information about historic natural disasters, as well as preparedness and rescue methods, benefits any reader who seeks to understand these global happenings

The following article is based on a case study of two snow-disasters affecting the same area within an extremely short interval. Thus, many learn-effects could be studied and many behavior-patterns could be compared. In this context only one behavior-pattern shall be presented. It is a behavior which is commonly said to be "jointly responsible". The types, modes, causes, and objective backgrounds of such a behavior shall be discussed. The study's results are based on qualitative interviews of 2–3 hours with 40 professionals of the German disaster relief organizations, and on the analysis of documents (official reports, staff diaries, mass media etc.). A questionnaire is in preparation and should be given to the population which was affected by the disaster.

Not Available ; Disasters are of two type's natural and anthropogenic hazard or man-made hazards. A natural disaster is a major adverse geologic process resulting as floods, earth quakes, tsunamis which cause severe damage of life, property and environment. While the anthropogenic hazard results in the form of human intent, negligence, human error and involving a failure of man-made system. The Nagaram gas leaking from GAIL pipeline fire explosion took 23 lives in the early hours of 27th June 2014. This explosion occurred close to the ONGC's Tatipaka mini-refinery and a gas collecting station began leaking the day before the accident and spread over the area and caught fire when the tea vendor lit a stove. The impact was devastating as the flames spread over a 1 km radius, catching people in the vicinity unawares. The major cause for this mishap is apathy towards the haul of surveillance and hovered district administration. The state government has announced ex-gratia of 50,000 rupees and GAIL has announced an ex-gratia of 25 lakh to the next kin of those who died, and 5 lakh to those who suffered permanent disability as a medical aid. The paper aims to question the governments' ex-gratia over decimation, despite additional surveillance based on an empirical work in support of disaster relief operations over this anthropogenic hazard of GAIL pipeline disaster. This paper provides an overview of this hazard in victim's family/kin perspective, which is aggravated significantly by the vulnerability of people's vicinity, and the findings of the study will be useful to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of disaster relief operations in order to assist in the aftermath of future anthropogenic disasters. ; Not Available