Volcano warning systems: Chapter 67
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Abstract
Messages conveying volcano alert level such as Watches and Warnings are designed to provide people with risk information before, during, and after eruptions. Information is communicated to people from volcano observatories and emergency management agencies and from informal sources and social and environmental cues. Any individual or agency can be both a message sender and a recipient and multiple messages received from multiple sources is the norm in a volcanic crisis. Significant challenges to developing effective warning systems for volcanic hazards stem from the great diversity in unrest, eruption, and post-eruption processes and the rapidly advancing digital technologies that people use to seek real-time risk information. Challenges also involve the need to invest resources before unrest to help people develop shared mental models of important risk factors. Two populations of people are the target of volcano notifications–ground- and aviation-based populations, and volcano warning systems must address both distinctly different populations.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Volcano warning systems: Chapter 67 |
| DOI | 10.1016/B978-0-12-385938-9.00067-5 |
| Year Published | 2015 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Academic Press |
| Publisher location | Boston, MA |
| Contributing office(s) | Volcano Science Center |
| Description | 13 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, 2nd Edition |
| First page | 1173 |
| Last page | 1185 |
| Google Analytic Metrics | Metrics page |