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- Title
- Hurricanes Iwa, Alicia, and Diana - Common Themes, a Report of the Committee on Natural Disasters, 1984.
- File
- PB85218220.pdf
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., January 1985, 38 p.
- Abstract
- The National Research Council has maintained the Committee on Natural Disasters--originally known as the Committee on Earthquake Inspection--since 1966. The goals of the committee are to collect perishable data on natural disasters while the data are still available, to provide conveniently available accounts of natural disasters, and to identify and recommend cases where more in-depth studies could improve engineering practice, preparedness, warning systems, public response, or recovery. At its annual meeting in November 1984 the committee decided that each year it should prepare a report presenting a generic analysis of one area of its work-postdisaster studies on earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, landslides, or volcanoes--as well as summarizing the committee's postdisaster study activities for the previous year.
- Keywords
- Hurricanes; Landslides; Volcanoes; Hurricane Diana; Disasters; Tornadoes; Hurricane Iwa; Warning systems; Hurricane Alicia; Earthquakes