Vulkanologi og seismologi

Inge Lehmann, 1888-1993, var geofysiker og var med til at grundlægge seismologien, en helt ny videnskab, i 1930’erne og årtierne derefter. En lidenskabelig trang til at blive til noget, havde fået hende til at overhøre alle de velmente råd fra sin familie, der på ingen måde syntes, hun skulle studere, og hun endte med at blive den første kvindelige seismolog i verden. I 1936 fremførte hun hypotesen, at Jorden har en fast indre kerne, hvilket skulle vise sig at være rigtigt. Hun trådte ind i en international forskerverden med imødekommende kollegaer, men hjemme i Danmark mødte hun akademisk snobberi, mandschauvinisme og vanetænkning.Skyggezone, af biolog og forfatter Hanne Strager, er den første biografi skrevet om Inge Lehmann. Bogen er blevet til på baggrund af en lang række breve, dokumenter og videnskabelige artikler fra Rigsarkivet og personlige breve i familiens eje, som alt sammen er med til at tegne et nyt og nuanceret billede af vores store danske seismolog.

This book has been written to be a self help book so that the public in general can protect themselves from the worst effects of the next Icelandic volcanic eruptions. We have already seen in March & April of 2010 what a small volcanic eruption did when Eyjafjallajokull blew up and caused chaos over the skies of Europe and North America. This was the least harmful perhaps of all 18 - 25 massive strato volcanoes some of which I believe could erupt in the next 5 years. Ones like Katla which are linked to EJ (short version of Eyjafjallajokull) are about 10 times bigger than EJ.Then there is Laki which erupted in 1783 and 1784 and caused a huge cloud of yellow poison mustard gas to spread over Europe potentially killing about 1 million people and yet no one today knows about this volcano, this is one of the biggest killers the world has ever known possibly killing up to 6 million people worldwide due to its effects upon the Jet stream and Monsoon rains and yet only a handful of Nordic Volcanologists and scientists seem to know about it. My book will educate the public to the dangerous relationship between human civilizations and volcanic eruptions which have profoundly changed the way previous civilizations and historical eras progressed or collapsed as the case may be.

"Wally Johnson and Neville Threlfall re-examine the explosive volcanic eruptions that in 1937-43 killed more than 500 people in the Rabaul area of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. They reassess this disaster in light of the prodigious amount of new scientific and disaster-management work that has been undertaken there since about 1971, when strong tectonic earthquakes shook the area. Comparisons are made in particular with volcanic eruptions in 1994-2014, when half of Rabaul town was destroyed and then abandoned. A striking feature of historical eruptive periods at Rabaul is the near-simultaneous activity at Vulcan and Tavurvur volcanoes, on either side of Rabaul Harbour. Such rare 'twin' eruptions are interpreted to be the result of a common magma reservoir beneath the harbour. This interpretation has implications for ongoing hazard and risk assessments and for volcano monitoring in the area"--

Earthquake prediction, especially impending earthquake prediction, is one of the most difficult worldwide problems in the human history. This book focuses on the root cause of the long-standing unsolved earthquake prediction, as well as the alternatives which may solve it at present and its theoretical basis.This book emphasizes that: through practice Professor Dajiong Lu has first achieved the accurate prediction of some teleseisms, near earthquakes and local earthquakes in the world, thus laying a theoretical foundation for human beings to solve this problem, and proposing a feasible way for the realization of real earthquake prediction.This book popularizes the knowledge of earthquake prediction with easy-to-understand and lively writing. At the same time, it expounds the resistance encountered in the research process with a serious scientific attitude and humorous language, and how Professor Dajiong Lu can make progress after overcoming the formidable obstacles. This book has well popularized the knowledge of earthquake prediction, especially impending earthquake prediction, and it is worth reading. By reading this book, readers can have a new understanding of earthquake prediction.

Earthquakes - Recent Advances, New Perspectives and Applications is a compilation of nine chapters covering aspects of tectonics, seismicity, earthquake forecasting, geotechnical engineering, and buildings. It presents state-of-the-art techniques for calculating moment tensors, rupture inversions, and hypocentral locations. It also presents methodologies to test probabilistic earthquake distributions on clustered and declustered catalogs and improves on classical methodologies to estimate bearing capacity and slope stability analysis. The final section discusses the structural behavior of vernacular and modern structures in the nonlinear range and the consequences of modifying the original structural system of a building.

56 million years ago our planet experienced rapid, intense warming known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, resulting in a global temperature increase of about 7°C. Runaway Climate explores the causes of this catastrophic event, its dramatic impact on life on Earth, and its stark lessons for our climate future.

A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism