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Pre-reading
What is a seismic hazard,
How can seismic hazards affect so...,
What is seismic risk
52
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Magma properties
What is a hazard,
What should considerations of nat...,
What does risk consider
71
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Effusive eruptions
What 2 ways can the behaviour of ...,
What are key controls of explosiv...,
What is first needed for an effus...
54
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Explosive eruptions
What are the relevant parameters ...,
What s tephra,
What can tephra be
67
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Pyroclastic density currents and lahars
What are the different ways pdcs ...,
What are pyroclastic density curr...,
What is the composition of the vi...
59
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Volcanic monitoring
What is required for risk reducti...,
What is needed by geoscientists t...,
What are some examples of long te...
52
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Hazard mitigation
Despite monitoring advances what ...,
What of volcanic signals are unre...,
How can volcanic eruptions be cat...
28
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Landslides lectures 1&2 (introduction)
What is the evolution of landslid...,
What is a landslide,
What are the variables that affec...
76
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Landslide causes and landslide hazard assessments
What is an example showing stable...,
How do the slopes form mccoll 202...,
What happens when a slope shifts ...
25
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Landslide hazard assessment – magnitude-frequency
What factors are used to produce ...,
What problem might arise from a c...,
What is the frequency magnitude r...
13
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Flooding_intro
What are type a b and c flooding,
What is an example of a type a flood,
What was the combination of facto...
46
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Earthquake principles
What is an earthquake,
How can a quote from legally blon...,
What is the seismic moment and wh...
71
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Flood mitigation
What is the main interest of floo...,
What is mitigation wanting to con...,
What canchnage the rate of run off
19
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Magnitude scale and Nuclear Explosions and Magnitude and tectonic setting
Why is the richter scale called t...,
What does the richter scale measure,
How is magnitude generated from r...
28
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Subduction zone megathrusts
What are the controls of megathru...,
What does seafloor uplift near a ...,
How is slip at subduction zone me...
29
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Earthquake intensity
What is the mmi,
How is the mmi split,
What part of earthquake waves cau...
18
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Earthquake forecasting
What would prediction of an earth...,
What precursory phenomena might p...,
What is the problem with precurso...
25
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Seismic risk
What occurred to the memphis hosp...,
What affects the fatality rate of...,
What will be a more likely higher...
21
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Tsunami Hazards
What can tsunamis originate from,
What do all tsunami sources have ...,
What is the theory behind tsunamis
44
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Bolide impact
What sthe avg per day tonnage of ...,
What is the typicaly size of mate...,
What is a bolide
39
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