Download or read book Gujarat Earthquake 26th January 2001 written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume Documents The Devastating Gujarat Earthquake Of 26 January 2001. Contents Cover: Earthquakes-The Broader Perspective - Devastated Gujarat - The Response - Macro-Level Gujarat Profile - Sectoral Issues-Damage Assessment And Rehabilitation/Reconstruction Programme - Rehabilitation Effort District Kutch (End Noveber, 2001) - Overview Of Rehabilitation Effort In The State - Salient Features And The Lessons Learnt. 10 Annexures - 11 Maps - Number Of Colour Illustration. Condition As Good As New.
Download or read book The Pain and Horror written by L. R. Reddy and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of Gujarat earthquake of January 26, 2001.
Download or read book The Kutch Earthquake 2001 written by Pramod Kumar Mishra and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gujarat Kutch India M7 7 Earthquake of January 26 2001 and Napa M5 2 Earthquake of September 3 2000 written by John M. Eidinger and published by ASCE Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared by the Earthquake Investigation Committee of the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering of ASCE. This TCLEE Monograph describes the performance of lifelines in two earthquakes: the Gujarat earthquake of January 26, 2001, and the Napa earthquake of September 3, 2000. The Gujarat earthquake severely struck the Kutch District of the Gujarat State, India, and resulted in about 17,000 fatalities, 150,000 injuries, and left more than 500,000 homeless. The most heavily damaged lifelines were water and electric power. Other lifelines were substantially affected included communications, wastewater, ports, railways, highways, roads, and bridges. The Napa Earthquake was a moderate-sized earthquake in California. Recorded peak ground accelerations were as high as 0.49g, with a recorded peak ground velocity of 15 inches per second. This report presents the findings for the following lifelines: water, telephone, highways, railroads, ports, hospitals, airports, fire department response, radio communications, highway bridges, electric, and natural gas.
Download or read book The Capacity Crisis in Disaster Risk Management written by Asmita Tiwari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can a place be built and managed so that it is safe for people to live? Ironically, many governments and citizens keep on asking the same question after every new disaster. Why, even with high levels of investment in increasing government’s capacity to manage disasters, do the impacts of disasters continue to increase? What can the governments do differently? What is the role of local communities? Where should aid agencies invest? This book looks into these critical questions and highlights how current capacity development efforts might be resulting in the opposite—capacity crisis or capability trap. The book provides a new approach for the understanding and the developing of effective local capacity to reduce and manage future disaster impacts.
Download or read book Safer Homes Stronger Communities written by Abhas K. Jha and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook is designed to guide public sector managers and development practitioners through the process of large-scale housing reconstruction after major disasters, based on the experiences of recent reconstruction programs in Aceh (Indonesia), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Gujarat (India) and Bam (Iran).
Download or read book Plate Boundary Zones written by Seth Stein and published by American Geophysical Union. This book was released on 2002-01-21 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects some recent studies on the motions, mechanics, and earthquakes that take place within plate boundary zones. Many of the studies reflect advances made possible by the development of space geodetic techniques. Among the topics of the 21 papers are tectonic processes in the Eurasian-African plate boundary zone, the structure of the Dead Sea basin, the January 2001 Bhuj earthquake in India, geological investigations of the Kamchatka region in Russia, and crustal shortening and extension in the central Andes. There is no index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book City of Fear written by Robin David and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary account of ordinary people in troubled times In 2001, a calamitous earthquake struck Gujarat. A year later came the kind of communal carnage the nation had not seen since the Partition. For Robin David, then an assistant editor with the Times of India, the two events engendered a tectonic shift in his own life. The earthquake left deep cracks in his ancestral home, while the riots undermined all the certainties of life, making it impossible to walk through hitherto familiar neighbourhoods. A decade later, the wounds have not healed. At a time when the memory of the riots has already faded in the minds of many, City of Fear documents the varied forms of fear that people in Gujarat experienced during that period, especially those of the author's own Indian Jewish Bene Israeli family.
Download or read book Disaster Management in India Challenges and Strategies written by Dr. R. K. Dave and published by Prowess Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book – “Disaster Management in India: Challenges and Strategies” - provides a practical and realistic understanding of the evolving status of disaster management in India. The book discusses techno-legal systems for disaster management and their real-life effectiveness based upon the author’s own professional experience as well as available literature including studies, reviews and audits reports.A case study of the 2001 Bhuj Earthquake conducted by the author is at the nucleus of the book and provides a clear understanding on how interdependent sub-systems (social, organisational, infrastructure) can fail during sever incidents, and the consequences thereof.Lack of resources, lack of coordination, and poor communication are endemic to severely damaged disaster environments like the 2001 Bhuj earthquake and are very commonly seen across the world. What is more important for the future is that new methods are being evolved that overcome the potential risks posed by such initial conditions for improving organizational performance. Lessons from the 2001 Bhuj earthquake highlighted in this book are still relevant and provide directions for well-designed future interventions.The book critically examines performance status of disaster management in the post DM Act 2005 period and identifies many relevant issues and challenges – including development of effective institutions for disaster risk management.At the end, the book proposes intervention strategies for strengthening and improving disaster management systems keeping in mind the latest developments and best-practices suited to Indian conditions. Drawing on the author’s decades of experience both in the domains of disaster management and technology, the book provides tips on - Emergency Operations Center design and development; Media integration into DM, emergency Resources Management systems development and Crowd management.
Download or read book Gujarat Kutch India M7 7 Earthquake of January 26 2001 and Napa M5 2 Earthquake of Sept 3 2000 written by John M. Eidinger and published by Amer Society of Civil Engineers. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the performance of buildings, bridges, and electricity and utility infrastructures in two recent earthquakes in India and California. After an overview of the damage incurred by both earthquakes, chapters focus on the Indian earthquake, looking at seismology and geotechnical co
Download or read book Choosing Light written by Viral Dalal and published by Gj Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-01-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a True Story.This is a story of a man who heads back home to visit his family. An earthquake of 7.7 magnitude hits the town of Bhuj, in India, where he is located at the time of the earthquake. His building collapses, and he finds himself trapped in a space that is less than a coffin, without any light or any possibility of movement. He stays in that position for 5 days. He is rescued, unscathed. He returns to the site looking for his family. During the next 4 days he discovers that none of them survived. He picks himself back up from this disaster, and continues to move in the path of his dreams. This is a story about a man who survives against all odds, and stands back up on his feet. This is a story about strength, willpower, and the powers of the human mind that we all possess.
Download or read book Coastal Tectonics written by Iain S. Stewart and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 1998 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clearing the Rubble written by Mahesh Dattani and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A playwright of world stature’—Mario Relich, Wasafiri Clearing the Rubble, a radio play for three voices, was commissioned by BBC Radio to commemorate the first anniversary of the massive earthquake that devastated Gujarat on 26 January 2001. Two lives are brought together by tragedy. Toby, an English journalist, decides to help a young Muslim boy whose mother and two sisters are buried under the debris of the fallen hospital. The play is a touching tale of the victims of both natural calamity and social discrimination. ‘At last we have a playwright who gives sixty million English-speaking Indians an identity’—Alyque Padamsee ‘Powerful and disturbing’—The New York Times
Download or read book Natural Hazards written by Ramesh Singh and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, the interactions between land, ocean, biosphere and atmosphere have increased, mainly due to population growth and anthropogenic activities, which have impacted the climate and weather conditions at local, regional and global scales. Thus, natural hazards related to climate changes have significantly impacted human life and health on different spatio-temporal scales and with socioeconomic bearings. To monitor and analyze natural hazards, satellite data have been widely used in recent years by many developed and developing countries. In an effort to better understand and characterize the various underlying processes influencing natural hazards, and to carry out related impact assessments, Natural Hazards: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Landslides, presents a synthesis of what leading scientists and other professionals know about the impacts and the challenges when coping with climate change. Combining reviews of theories and methods with analysis of case studies, the book gives readers research information and analyses on satellite geophysical data, radar imaging and integrated approaches. It focuses also on dust storms, coastal subsidence and remote sensing mapping. Some case studies explore the roles of remote sensing related to landslides and volcanoes. Overall, improved understanding of the processes leading to these hazardous events will help scientists predict their occurrence. Features Provides information on the physics and physical processes of natural hazards, their monitoring and the mapping of damages associated with these hazards Explains how natural hazards are strongly associated with coupling between land–ocean–atmosphere Includes a comprehensive overview of the role of remote sensing in natural hazards worldwide Examines risk assessment in urban areas through numerical modelling and geoinformation technologies Demonstrates how data analysis can be used to aid in prediction and management of natural hazards
Download or read book Earthquake Boy written by Leela Gour Broome and published by Feel Books Pvt Limited. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bhuj India Earthquake of January 26 2001 written by Sudhir K. Jain and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a joint report from the combined EERI-NSF team on the Bhuj, India earthquake of January 6, 2001. This 7.7 magnitude earthquake occurred in the state of Gujarat in western India. Approximately 14,000 lives were lost and over 167,000 persons injured. Damage was spread over a radius of 400 kilometers from the epicenter. The first major quake to hit an urban area of India in the last 50 years, it caused extensive liquefaction and slope failures but no primary surface fault rupture. The resulting net economic loss is estimated to be about US $5 billion. It covers the seismotectonic setting; local geological and geotechnical effects; performance of buildings, lifelines, and other structures and facilities; and social and governmental response.
Download or read book Environmental Studies Second Edtion written by and published by Excel Books India. This book was released on with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
