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Natural Disasters
Koji Ichii, Yoshinari Hayashi, Tomofumi Koyama, Tomoyuki Takahashi
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Abstract
Natural disasters are damages to human lives or social activities caused by dangerous natural phenomena. This chapter quickly reviews the history of natural disasters, specifically for earthquakes and volcanic disasters, ground and sediment disasters, and water disasters, and discusses the mechanisms of how they break out and the typical damages they cause. Then the chapter explains predictions and countermeasures for disaster management.
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