Volcanic hazards in Nicaragua: Past, present, and future

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 412, Issue 412, 2006, Pages 141-165

  Freundt, Armin ^a,b   Kutterolf, Steffen ^a   Schmincke, Hans Ulrich ^a,b   Hansteen, Thor ^a,b   Wehrmann, Heidi ^a   Pérez, Wendy ^a   Strauch, Wilfried ^c   Navarro, Martha ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c Instituto Nicaraguense de Estudios Territoriales   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

Debris fl ows; Eruption forecasting; Monitoring; Tephrostratigraphy; Tsunamis

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; EXPLOSIVES; HAZARDS; LAKES; MAPS; MONITORING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TSUNAMIS;

EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; LONG TERM DEVELOPMENT PLANS; MONITORING VOLCANOES; POPULATION DENSITIES; PYROCLASTIC SURGE; TEPHROSTRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

VOLCANOES;

DATABASE; DEBRIS FLOW; EXPLOSIVE; FALLOUT; LAVA FLOW; MAAR; MONITORING; NATURAL HAZARD; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VULNERABILITY;

LAKE MANAGUA; MASAYA; MASAYA VOLCANO; NICARAGUA;

CAPSICUM ANNUUM VAR. GLABRIUSCULUM;

EID: 72449145820     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2412(08)     Document Type: Article

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