Natural hazards are potentially damaging physical events and phenomena, which may cause the loss of life, injury or human life disruption, property damage, social, economic, and political disruption, or environmental degradation. Natural disasters cause fear and horror for people. The most unpredictable is earthquakes.  Active volcanoes are constantly monitored that gives the possibility to anticipate a possible eruption. Tsunamis have a number of predictive features that give possibility to mitigate their consequences.

Water and earthquakes, while two seemingly separate subjects, do interact, as evidenced by the great many earthquakes during the last decade in themid-continental USA induced by the injection of toxic wastewater co-produced from hydrocarbon extraction.

В начале 1930-х гг. Андрей Николаевич Колмогоров разработал аналитические методы теории вероятностей. В последующие десятилетия его ближайшие ученики и коллеги А.М. Обухов, А.М. Яглом, А.С. Монин, Г.И. Баренблатт применили эту методику к исследованию реальных случайных процессов, в первую очередь турбулентности.

In the geological sciences, the term "tectonics" refers to the processes, structures and landforms associated with deformation of the Earth's crust. In a broader sense, it refers to the evolution of these structures and landforms over time. On a global scale, we are concerned with the origin of continents and ocean basins, he which are the largest landforms produced by tectonics on Earth At the regional scale, we are-interested in structures that produce mountain chains. <...>

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Книга знакомит с новым направлением науки — бионикой, которая помогает прогнозировать сложные сейсмические процессы и явления, происходящие в природе.
Автор в научно-популярной форме рассказы вает о географии сейсмических районов земного шара, приводит новейшие сейсмические данные о самых разрушительных землетрясениях за последние десятилетия, раскрывает возможности прогнозирования подземных бурь — землетрясений и извержений вулканов. Книга иллюстрирована цветными фотографиями, картами, схемами

The Mw 7.1 (Mj 7.3) Kumamoto earthquake occurred on April 16, 2016, resulting in more than 100 deaths and extensive damage on Kyushu Island in southwestern Japan. In order to determine the motion of the seismogenic fault, ground deformation, and relationships between coseismic surface ruptures and pre-existing faults, our survey group conducted fieldworks immediately, beginning one day after the main shock.

Отчего возникают землетрясения и извержения вулканов, чем вызываются громадные волны цунами? Может ли наука предсказать наступление этих грозных явлений природы и как от них уберечься?

Автор этой ярко иллюстрированной книги просто и понятно отвечает на поставленные вопросы