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Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction to Hazards
Chapter 2: Introduction to Vulnerability and Risk (Excerpt from - At Risk: natural hazards, people’s vulnerability and disasters (2nd edition))
Chapter 3: Fundamentals of Plate Tectonics (Excerpt from Earle, Physical Geology)
Chapter 4: Earthquakes
4.1 What Is an Earthquake?
4.2 Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
4.3 Measuring Earthquakes
4.4 The Impacts of Earthquakes
4.5 Forecasting Earthquakes and Minimizing Damage and Casualties
Chapter 5: Tsunami
5.1 - Case Study: 1964 Port Alberni Tsunami
Chapter 6: Volcanism
6.1 Plate Tectonics and Volcanism
6.2 Magma Composition and Eruption Style
6.3 Types of Volcanoes
6.4 Volcanic Hazards
6.5 Monitoring Volcanoes and Predicting Eruptions
6.6 Volcanoes in British Columbia
Chapter 6 Summary
Chapter 7: Mass Wasting
7.1 Factors That Control Slope Stability
7.2 Classification of Mass Wasting
7.3 Preventing, Delaying, Monitoring, and Mitigating Mass Wasting
7.4 - Case Study: 1965 Hope Slide
Chapter 7: Summary
Chapter 8: Avalanche
Chapter 9: Tropical Storms/Flooding
9.1 The Hydrological Cycle
9.2 - Introduction to Tropical Storms
9.3 Flooding
9.4 Sea-Level Change
Chapter 10: Wildfire
10.1 Case Study: 2003 Okanagan Mountain Park Fire
Main Body
Read sections 16.1-16.3 (pages 604-616) of the following textbook chapter:
Ch16-TropCycl-v102
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