Volcanic Hazards: Assessment and Monitoring

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Volcanic Winter? Climatic Effects of the Largest Volcanic Eruptions....Pages 3-9
Prediction of Volcanic Hazards on the Basis of the Study of Dynamics of Volcanic Activity, Kamchatka....Pages 10-35
Study Models for Volcanic Hazards in Iceland....Pages 36-56
Volcanic and Associated Hazards in the Lesser Antilles....Pages 57-85
The Evolution of La Grande Découverte (La Soufrière) Volcano, Guadeloupe (F.W.I.)....Pages 86-109
Volcan Popocatepetl: Recent Eruptive History, and Potential Hazards and Risks in Future Eruptions....Pages 110-128
Use of Computer-Generated Movies to Present Volcanic Hazards....Pages 129-136
Mt. Etna (Sicily): Volcanic Hazard Assessment....Pages 137-150
The 1982–83 Eruption of Galunggung (Indonesia): A Case Study of Volcanic Hazards with Particular Relevance to Air Navigation....Pages 151-162
Some Notes on False Alarms of Volcanic Activity and Mud Flows....Pages 163-168
Explosive Volcanic Activity Generated from Within Advancing Silicic Lava Flows....Pages 169-179
The May 1915 Eruptions of Lassen Peak, California, I: Characteristics of Events Occurring on 19 May....Pages 180-200
Discrimination Between Debris Avalanches and Other Volcaniclastic Deposits....Pages 201-209
The 1984 Collapse and Debris Avalanche Deposits of Ontake Volcano, Central Japan....Pages 210-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
The Detection Capability of Explosive Eruptions Using GMS Imagery, and the Behaviour of Dispersing Eruption Clouds....Pages 233-245
Volcanic Activity in Japan Monitored by the Japan Meteorological Agency Using Detected Precursory Phenomena....Pages 246-259
A Summary of Precursors to Volcanic Eruptions in Papua New Guinea....Pages 260-291
Eruptions, Eruption Precursors and Related Phenomena in the Lesser Antilles....Pages 292-311
Patterns of Volcanic Activity of Piton de la Fournaise (Réunion Island, Indian Ocean). A Synthesis Based on Monitoring Data Between 1980 and July 1985, and on Historic Records Since 1930....Pages 312-338
Volcano Monitoring in the Aeolian Islands (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea): The Lipari-Vulcano Eruptive Complex....Pages 339-356
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Microgravity Changes and Ground Deformation at Rabaul Caldera, 1973–1985....Pages 399-428
Earthquakes of the Rabaul Seismo-Deformational Crisis September 1983 to July 1985: Seismicity on a Caldera Ring Fault....Pages 429-462
Some Seismic Precursors to Eruptions at Pavlof Volcano, Alaska, October 1973–April 1986....Pages 463-485
Volcanic Tremor of Kliuchevskoi Volcano (1984 Eruption)....Pages 486-503
Some Significant Features of Pre-Eruption Volcanic Earthquakes....Pages 504-512
The Taupo Seismic System....Pages 513-519
Classification of Volcanic Earthquakes at Mount Erebus Antarctica....Pages 520-535
Infrasonic Recordings of Strombolian Eruptions of Erebus, Antarctica, March – December 1984, Covering the Jump in Activity on 13 September 1984....Pages 536-553
Thermal Infrared Surveys at Vulcano Island: An Experimental Approach to the Thermal Monitoring of Volcanoes....Pages 357-371
Deformation Monitoring of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica, 1980–1985....Pages 554-560
Vertical Deformation Monitoring by Periodic Water Level Observations, Lake Taupo, New Zealand....Pages 561-574
Geodetic and Geophysical Monitoring of the 1886 Tarawera Rift....Pages 575-584
A Preliminary Experiment on Automated Judgement of the Stages of Eruptive Activity Using Tiltmeter Records at Sakurajima, Japan....Pages 585-598
The Forecasting Significance of Chemical Indicators in Areas of Quiescent Volcanism: Examples from Vulcano and Phlegrean Fields (Italy)....Pages 372-383
Geochemical Precursors at Solfatara Volcano, Pozzuoli (Italy)....Pages 384-398
Back Matter....Pages 599-625