Heavy-Tailed Distributions in Disaster Analysis

Introduction 1. Distributions of Characteristics of Natural Disasters: Data and Classification 2. Models for the Generation of Distributions of Different Types 3. Nonparametric Methods in the Study of Distributions 4. Nonlinear and Linear Growth of Cumulative Effects of Natural Disasters 5. The Nonlinear and Linear Modes of Growth of the Cumulative Seismic Moment 6. Estimating the Uppermost Tail of a Distribution 7. Relationship between Earthquake Losses and Social and Economic Situations Summary and a Review References Index