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Remote sensing for disaster response: a rapid, image-based perspective / Charles Huyck, Enrica Verrucci and John Bevington -- The capabilities of earth observation to contribute along the risk cycle / H. Taubenböck -- Disaster-risk reduction through the training of masons and public information campaigns: experience of SDC's "Competence Centre for Reconstruction" in Haiti / Tom Schacher -- The most useful countermeasure against giant earthquakes and tsunamis: what we learned from interviews of 164 tsunami survivors / Mizuho Ishida and Masataka Ando -- Aggravated earthquake risk in South Asia: engineering versus human nature / Roger Bilham -- Ten years of real-time earthquake loss alerts / Max Wyss -- Forecasting seismic risk as an earthquake sequence happens / J. Douglas Zechar, Marcus Herrmann, Thomas van Stiphout and Stephen Wiemer -- How to render schools safe in developing countries? / Amod M. Dixit, Surya P. Acharya, Surya N. Shrestha and Ranjan Dhungel -- The socioeconomic impact of earthquake disasters / James E. Daniell -- The contribution of paleoseismology to earthquake hazard evaluations / Mustapha Meghraoui and Kuvvet Atakan -- The role of microzonation in estimating earthquake risk / Imtiyaz A. Parvez and Philippe Rosset -- Why are the standard probabilistic methods of estimating seismic hazard and risks too often wrong / Giuliano Panza, Vladimir G. Kossobokov, Antonella Peresan and Anastasia Nekrasove -- The continued utility of probabilistic seismic-hazard assessment / Mark W. Stirling -- Precarious rocks: providing upper limits on past ground shaking from earthquakes / John G. Anderson, Glenn P. Biasi, and James N. Brune -- Quantifying improvements in earthquake-rupture forecasts through testable models / Danijel Schorlemmer and Matthew C. Gerstenberger -- Duties of earthquake forecast: cases and lessons in China / Zhongliang Wu -- The experience of real-time earthquake predictions on Kamchatka / Gennady Sobolev and Victor Chebrov -- Times of increased probabilities for occurrence of hypothesis testing in real time / Vladimir G. Kossobokov -- Review of the nationwide earthquake early warning in Japan during its first five years / Mitsuyuki Hoshiba -- To what extent can engineering reudce seismic risk? / Stavros V. Tolis -- Decision making under uncertainity: insuring and reinsuring earthquake risk / Geor W. Michel.

Earthquake Hazard, Risk and Disasters presents the latest scientific developments and reviews of research addressing seismic hazard and seismic risk, including causality rates, impacts on society, preparedness, insurance and mitigation. The current controversies in seismic hazard assessment and earthquake prediction are addressed from different points of view. Basic tools for understanding the seismic risk and to reduce it, like paleoseismology, remote sensing, and engineering are discussed. Contains contributions from expert seismologists, geologists, engineers and geophysicists

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