{"id":2375,"date":"2019-02-01T09:48:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T04:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?page_id=2375"},"modified":"2019-02-01T09:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T04:18:13","slug":"gp-513-natural-hazards-and-environmental-geophysics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/gp-513-natural-hazards-and-environmental-geophysics\/","title":{"rendered":"GP 513 Natural Hazards and Environmental Geophysics"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2375\" class=\"elementor elementor-2375 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-50c25ee elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"50c25ee\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-856a3c1\" data-id=\"856a3c1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5b8e932 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5b8e932\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-214591e\" data-id=\"214591e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c1f26bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c1f26bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.5.3 - 28-12-2021 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">GP 513: Natural Hazards and Environmental Geophysics <\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-834bdb7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"834bdb7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Syllabus\u200b<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ccc168 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7ccc168\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.5.3 - 28-12-2021 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#818a91;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#818a91;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>Introduction to Natural hazards \u2013 earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, landslides, avalanches, floods, cyclones, mine fire and blow out; Causes, risk and mitigation of natural hazards; Mechanics of recent and historical earthquakes, seismic risk and hazard, earthquake prediction, types of volcanism, styles of eruption, forecasting and mitigation of volcano hazard, Tsunami \u2013 causes and prediction, prediction and prevention of landslides, landslide zonation and risk assessment, Flood hazard and mitigation, geological hazards &#8211; vulnerability and risk assessment using GIS, Environmental hazards \u2013 Nuclear waste, ground water pollution, Important case studies of natural hazards.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61ddbb1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"61ddbb1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Texts\/References<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8cca693 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8cca693\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>E.Byrant, Natural Hazards, Cambridge, 2005<\/li><li>A.Patrick, Natural disasters, McGraw Hill, 2003<\/li><li>Valdiya, K.S., Coping with natural hazards : Indian context, Orient Longman, Hyderbad, 2004<\/li><li>P.V.Sharma, Environmental and Engineering Geophysics, Cambridge,2004<\/li><li>K.Smith and R.Ward, Floods: Physical processes and human impacts, J. Wiley and Sons, 1998<\/li><li>Landslides and their control, Elsevier Scientific Pub., Amsterdam, 1982<\/li><li>Erika Jahn, Landslides and their stabilization, Springer-Verlag, 1981.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GP 513: Natural Hazards and Environmental Geophysics Syllabus\u200b Introduction to Natural hazards \u2013 earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, landslides, avalanches, floods, cyclones, mine fire and blow out; Causes, risk and mitigation of natural hazards; Mechanics of recent and historical earthquakes, seismic risk and hazard, earthquake prediction, types of volcanism, styles of eruption, forecasting and mitigation of volcano [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geos.iitb.ac.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}