1. Preface

   • M.I. El–Sabh
   • S. Venkatesh
   • T.S. Murty

   OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 102

2. Complexity Theory of Natural Disasters; Boundaries of Self-Structured Domains

   • A. E. Scheidegger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 103 - 112

3. March 1990 Hailstorm Damage in Sydney, Australia

   • Kylie E. Andrews
   • Russell J. Blong

   OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 125

4. A Test of the Cyclicity of Earthquakes

   • G. R. Dargahi-Noubary

   OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 134

5. Climate Change, Extreme Events and the Canadian Insurance Industry

   • Rodney White
   • David Etkin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 163

6. Problems for Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis

   • D. H. Speidel
   • P. H. Mattson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 179

7. Atmospheric Hazards Preparedness in Bangladesh: A Study of Warning, Adjustments and Recovery from the April 1991 Cyclone

   • C. Emdad Haque

   OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 202

8. Estimation of Response Spectra in the Severely Damaged Area During the 1995 Hyogo-Ken Nambu Earthquake

   • Tadanobu Sato
   • Katsutoshi Kita
   • Tomonari Maeda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 203 - 218

9. Federal Legislation for Disaster Mitigation: A Comparative Assessment Between Canada and the United States

   • John Newton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 219 - 241

10. Arias Intensity Assessment of Liquefaction Test Sites on the East Side of San Francisco Bay Affected by the Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of 17 October 1989

    • Robert E. Kayen
    • James K. Mitchell

    OriginalPaper Pages: 243 - 265

11. The Behaviour of a Man-Made Island During the Great Hanshin Earthquake, Japan

    • Yasuo Tanaka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 285

12. Mexico, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Kobe: What Next?

    • Cinna Lomnitz

    OriginalPaper Pages: 287 - 296

13. Hazards-96: Concluding Plenary Session and Discussion

    • Madhav L. Khandekar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 300