IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-642-55711-8_76.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Modeling and Computing Geophysical Mass Flows

In: Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications

Author

Listed:
  • E. Bruce Pitman

    (University at Buffalo)

  • Abani Patra

    (University at Buffalo)

  • Andy Bauer

    (University at Buffalo)

  • Michael Sheridan

    (University at Buffalo)

  • Marcus Bursik

    (University at Buffalo)

Abstract

Avalanches and debris flows pose a significant risk to those living on the flanks of hills and volcanoes. In 1985, debris flows originating from the summit of Ruiz volcano in Colombia overran entire villages, killing more than 20,000. In 1998, a mudflow at the Casita Volcano in Nicargua caused thousands of deaths. Pyroclastic and debris flows produced during the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Phillipines destroyed cities and villages some 15 km. from the summit, and forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands. Residents in the state of Washington remember the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruptions, and look warily at Mt. Ranier.

Suggested Citation

  • E. Bruce Pitman & Abani Patra & Andy Bauer & Michael Sheridan & Marcus Bursik, 2003. "Modeling and Computing Geophysical Mass Flows," Springer Books, in: Thomas Y. Hou & Eitan Tadmor (ed.), Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications, pages 807-817, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-55711-8_76
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-55711-8_76
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-642-55711-8_76. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.