Book Review: Dangerous Neighbors: Volcanoes and Cities

Caporuscio, Florie Andre

doi:10.2138/am-2015-661

Title: Book Review: Dangerous Neighbors: Volcanoes and Cities

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Here, Grant Heiken, a world-renowned volcanologist, has written a book based on his long history investigating volcanic hazards that is absolutely riveting. Eight of the ten chapters focus on the interplay between major metropolises and destructive volcanoes. The introductory chapter sets the stage for the remainder of the book. This chapter touches on various types of volcanic events; from Nyiragongo lava flows that disrupted the city of Goma, DRC, to debris flows from Nevado del Ruiz that killed 23,000 residents in Armero, Columbia, to the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland which spewed an ash column into the jet stream and disrupted air travel to 32 European countries for 6 days. Other issues weaved into the introduction are the social and political fallout when a predicted eruption does not occur (Soufriere de Guadeloupe), how hazard evaluation processes change, and why do major populations reside near high risk volcanoes.

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Caporuscio, Florie Andre ^[1]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Publication Date:: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2013

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: personal time; USDOE

OSTI Identifier:: 1331262

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-15-24129
Journal ID: ISSN 0003-004X

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: American Mineralogist

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 101; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-004X

Publisher:: Mineralogical Society of America

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 58 GEOSCIENCES; planetary sciences; book review; volcanic hazards

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  abstractNote = {Here, Grant Heiken, a world-renowned volcanologist, has written a book based on his long history investigating volcanic hazards that is absolutely riveting. Eight of the ten chapters focus on the interplay between major metropolises and destructive volcanoes. The introductory chapter sets the stage for the remainder of the book. This chapter touches on various types of volcanic events; from Nyiragongo lava flows that disrupted the city of Goma, DRC, to debris flows from Nevado del Ruiz that killed 23,000 residents in Armero, Columbia, to the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland which spewed an ash column into the jet stream and disrupted air travel to 32 European countries for 6 days. Other issues weaved into the introduction are the social and political fallout when a predicted eruption does not occur (Soufriere de Guadeloupe), how hazard evaluation processes change, and why do major populations reside near high risk volcanoes.},

  doi          = {10.2138/am-2015-661},

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  year         = {Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2013},

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