Ebook: Volcanic Hazards: Assessment and Monitoring
- Tags: Geology, Geophysics/Geodesy, Mineralogy
- Series: IAVCEI Proceedings in Volcanology 1
- Year: 1989
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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The contributions in this book were presented, orally or as posters, at the International Volcanological Congress held in New Zealand from 1 to 9 February 1986, the centenary year of the Tarawera eruption of 10 June 1886. More than 500 people, from 29 countries, attend ed the Congress. Most of these works formed part of Symposium 4, "Volcanic Hazards - Prediction and Assess ment", convened by J.H. Latter, R.R. Dibble, D.A. Swanson and C.G. Newhall. The collection represents over half of the published abstracts of Symposium 4, together with three papers given at the Symposium, which lacked abstracts, and two which were part of Symposium 1 on pyroclastic flow deposits. The contribu tions cover a good proportion of the volcanically active parts of the world, with Italy, Japan, the West Indies and the USA especially well represented. Mount Erebus, Vulcano and Rabaul are individual volcanoes which have been treated in particular detail. Unfor tunately, there are no chapters in the book dealing with Africa, the Atlantic islands (except Iceland), Hawaii, Central America (except Mexico), or South America (in spite of the major disaster at Nevado del Ruiz Volcano in 1985).
Volcano Hazards are of great contemporary environmental concern. This book comprises about half the papers and posters presented at a symposium on Volcanic Hazards-Prediction and Assessment, which was part of the International Volcanological Congress held in New Zealand. The wide range of geological, geophysical, geochemical, and remote sensing techniques used in assessing hazards and monitoring volcanoes is demonstrated in two parts, the first dealing mainly with Hazard Assessment, and the second mostly with Monitoring. Special attention is devoted to the question of how surveillance of both active and inactive volcanoes can be carried out in different parts of the world. This compilation will prove useful not only for researchers in the field, but also for anyone required to deal with practical aspects of public safety in volcanic emergencies.