Volcanic Hazards, Risks and Disasters

1st Edition - October 29, 2014
Editors: Paolo Papale, John F. Shroder
Language: English
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Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in volcano and volcanic research, including causality, impacts, preparedness, risk analysis, planning, response, recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. It takes a geoscientific approach to the topic while integrating the social and economic issues related to volcanoes and volcanic hazards and disasters. Throughout the book case studies are presented of historically relevant volcanic and seismic hazards and disasters as well as recent catastrophes, such as Chile’s Puyehue volcano eruption in June 2011.

Co-editors
Editorial Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. Global Distribution of Active Volcanoes
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Patterns in Global Volcanism and Their Associated Hazards
- 1.3. Populations Proximal to Volcanism
- 1.4. Patterns in Volcano-Related Fatalities
Chapter 2. Basaltic Lava Flow Hazard
- 2.1. Introduction
- 2.2. What Makes a Lava Flow Hazardous?
- 2.3. Impacts
- 2.4. Mitigation
- 2.5. Conclusions
Chapter 3. Impacts from Volcanic Ash Fall
- Definitions Used in This Chapter (modified from UN, 2009)
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Ash Fall Characteristics and How They Influence Impacts
- 3.3. Volcanic Ash Impact: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions
- 3.4. Quantifying Vulnerability to Ash Fall
- 3.5. Mitigating Ash Fall Impacts
- 3.6. Moving Forward
Chapter 4. Volcanic Ash Hazards and Aviation Risk
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. A Volcanological and Meteorological Hazard
- 4.3. Development of a Global Framework to Avoid Ash Clouds
- 4.4. Eyjafjallajökull Shifts Perception of Risks and Galvanizes Efforts to Quantify Hazards
- 4.5. Conclusions
Chapter 5. Pyroclastic Density Current Hazards and Risk
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. PDC Generation and Dynamics
- 5.3. Hazardous Behaviors of PDCs
- 5.4. Hazard Scenarios and Probabilistic Hazard Assessment
- 5.5. Concluding Remarks
Chapter 6. Lahars at Cotopaxi and Tungurahua Volcanoes, Ecuador: Highlights from Stratigraphy and Observational Records and Related Downstream Hazards
- 6.1. Introduction
- 6.2. Terminology and Fundamentals of Lahar Generation
- 6.3. Primary Lahars and Their Generation at Cotopaxi
- 6.4. The February 12, 2005 Rain-Generated Lahar in the Río Vazcún Canyon, Baños
Chapter 7. In situ Volcano Monitoring: Present and Future
- 7.1. Introduction
- 7.2. Ground Deformation
- 7.3. Gravity Observations
- 7.4. In situ Monitoring of Volcanic Gases
- 7.5. Seismological Observations
- 7.6. Infrasonic
- 7.7. Conclusions
Chapter 8. Using Multiple Data Sets to Populate Probabilistic Volcanic Event Trees
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Probabilistic versus Deterministic Forecasts
- 8.3. Concept of the Volcanic Event Tree
- 8.4. How Can Probabilities Be Estimated at Each Node and Branch of a Volcanic Event Tree?
- 8.5. A Handy Excel-Based Tool for Building Your Own Tree
- 8.6. Importance of Documenting the Basis for All Probability Estimates
- 8.7. Remote Participation in Development of Probability Trees
- 8.8. Applications of the Multiple Data Sets Method, by VDAP and Others
- 8.9. Applications of Probabilistic Volcanic Event Trees
- 8.10. Public Presentation of Probabilistic Event Trees?
- 8.11. Future Improvements
Chapter 9. Operational Short-term Volcanic Hazard Analysis: Methods and Perspectives
- 9.1. Introduction
- 9.2. The Bradyseismic Crises at Campi Flegrei in 1982–1984
- 9.3. Short-term BET_VH Setting for Campi Flegrei
- 9.4. Operational Short-term PVHA: The Role of Real-Time Monitoring Data in BET_VH
- 9.5. Operational Short-term PVHA: Results
- 9.6. Final Remarks
Chapter 10. Human and Structural Vulnerability to Volcanic Processes
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Human Vulnerability and Buildings
- 10.3. Building Vulnerability in Main Volcanic Processes
Chapter 11. Cost–Benefit Analysis in Volcanic Risk
- 11.1. Assessing Crisis Management Strategies
- 11.2. The Roots of Value-Based Decision-making
- 11.3. The Application of CBA
- 11.4. Interface between Volcanologists and Decision-makers
- 11.5. Conclusion
Chapter 12. Volcanic Risks and Insurance
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Insured Losses from Volcanic Eruptions
- 12.3. Volcanic Eruption—An Insurable Risk?
- 12.4. Practice and Principles
- 12.5. Managing the Insurance Risk
- 12.6. Rating Volcanic Eruption Risk
- 12.7. Volcanic Eruptions—An Underestimated Risk?
- 12.8. Local Events—Cities at Risk
- 12.9. Global Events
- 12.10. Conclusion
Chapter 13. Extreme Volcanic Risks 1: Mexico City
- 13.1. Mexico City and the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico
- 13.2. Volcanic Hazard Assessments for MC
- 13.3. Possible Sources for Ashfall in MC
- 13.4. A Multisource, Probabilistic Approach for Hazards Assessment
- 13.5. Living with the Everlasting Possibility of the Formation of a New Volcano in the Vicinity of MC: Dealing with False Alarms
- 13.6. Future Perspectives
- 13.7. Summary
Chapter 14. Extreme Volcanic Risks 2: Mount Fuji
- 14.1. Introduction
- 14.2. Characteristics of Fuji Volcano
- 14.3. Eruptive History of Fuji Volcano
- 14.4. Geophysical Monitoring
- 14.5. Sector Collapse of Fuji Volcano
- 14.6. Ashfall Damage on Electricity in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area
- 14.7. Conclusion
Chapter 15. Volcanic Gas and Aerosol Hazards from a Future Laki-Type Eruption in Iceland
- 15.1. Introduction
- 15.2. The AD 1783–1784 Laki Eruption
- 15.3. Frequency of Icelandic Eruptions and Likelihood of a Laki-Type Eruption
- 15.4. Volcanic Gas and Aerosol Hazards from a Future Laki-Type Eruption
- 15.5. Discussion
- 15.6. Summary
Chapter 16. Explosive Super-Eruptions and Potential Global Impacts
- 16.1. Introduction
- 16.2. Supersized Eruptions
- 16.3. The Next Super-Eruption?
- 16.4. Products of Super-Eruptions
- 16.5. Effects of Super-Eruptions
- 16.6. Societal Impacts of Super-Eruptions
- 16.7. Summary and Future Concerns
Chapter 17. Integration of European Volcano Infrastructures
- 17.1. Rationale
- 17.2. State of the Art of the European Volcanological RIs
- 17.3. Gap Analysis and Social or Scientific Needs
- 17.4. Principles of the Volcano Observation RI
- 17.5. Current Initiatives in the Integration of European Volcano RIs
- 17.6. Possible Implementation and Future Evolutions
- 17.7. Concluding Remarks
Chapter 18. Integrated Monitoring of Japanese Volcanoes
- 18.1. Introduction
- 18.2. Target Volcanoes for Monitoring
- 18.3. Monitoring Volcanoes
- 18.4. Observational Research by the National Universities and Other Research Institutes
- 18.5. Integrated Monitoring of Volcanoes in Japan
- 18.6. Role of the CCPVE in the Integrated Monitoring of Volcanoes
- 18.7. Perspectives
Chapter 19. Integrating Efforts in Latin America: Asociación Latinoamericana de Volcanología (ALVO)
- 19.1. Volcanism in Latin America
- 19.2. Historical Development of the Latin American Association of Volcanology
- 19.3. ALVO First Steps
- 19.4. A Critical View into the SWOT for the Development of Volcanology in the Latin American Region
- 19.5. Future Perspectives
- 19.6. Summary
Index

Paolo Papale

Paolo Papale began his research career after graduating in Geological Sciences at the University of Pisa in 1990. After numerous scholarships with the INGV and the CNR, he became a contract researcher with the CNR in 1996, subsequently a permanent researcher with the ING in 1999, and finally Research Director with the INGV in 2003, after having won a public competition as Full Professor in 2001 at the University of Calabria. He has published about 50 scientific articles in international scientific journals and ISI books for international dissemination on physical-mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of magmatic and volcanic processes, modeling of thermodynamic properties and magma rheology, and quantification of volcanic hazards. He has participated in numerous projects of the European Community, and in national and international projects in the fields of volcanic danger and volcanic physics.

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Director of Research, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

John F. Shroder

Dr. John (Jack) F. Shroder received his bachelor’s degree in geology from Union College in 1961; his masters in geology from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst in 1963, and his Ph.D. in geology at the University of Utah in 1967. He has been actively pursuing research on landforms and natural resources in the high mountain environments of the Rocky Mountains, the Afghanistan Hindu Kush, and the Karakoram Himalaya of Pakistan for over a half century. His teaching specialties have been primarily geomorphology, but also physical and historical geology and several other courses at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where he was the founding professor of the Geology major. While there he was instrumental in founding the Center for Afghanistan Studies in 1972, and he was the lead geologist for the Bethsaida Archaeological Project in Israel in the 1990s. He taught geology as an NSF-, USAID, and Fulbright-sponsored professor at Kabul University in 1977-78, as well as a Fulbright award to Peshawar University in 1983-84. He has some 63 written or edited books to his credit and more than 200 professional papers, with emphases on landslides, glaciers, flooding, and mineral resources in Afghanistan. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received Distinguished Career awards from both the Mountain and the Geomorphology Specialty Groups of the Association of American Geographers. In the recent decade as an Emeritus Professor, he served as a Trustee of the Geological Society of America Foundation where he set up a research scholarship, the Shroder Mass Movement award for masters and doctoral candidates. For the past two decades, he has been the Editor-in-Chief for the Developments in Earth Surface Processes book series of Elsevier Publishing, as well as the 10-volumes of the Treatise on Geomorphology, and the Hazards, Risks, and Disasters book series, both in second editions. Recently, Dr. Shroder was ranked among the top 2 percent of researchers worldwide by the October study conducted by Stanford University.

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Senior Research Scholar, Center for Afghanistan Studies, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Geology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA

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