REPORT:
Potential Hazards from Future Volcanic Eruptions in California

Table of Contents

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Classification of Volcanic Vents
• Types of Potentially Hazardous Events
  • Flowage Phenomena
    • Debris Avalanches
    • Pyroclastic Flows
    • Directed Blasts
    • Pyroclastic Surges
    • Lava Flows
    • Lava Domes
    • Debris Flows
    • Floods
  • Eruption of Tephra
  • Emission of Volcanic Gases
• Volcanic-Hazard Zonation at Holocene Volcanic Centers
  • Flowage-Hazard Zones
    • Combined Flowage-Hazard Zone for Locally Precedented Events
    • Hazard Zone for Locally Unprecedented Pyroclastic Flows
    • Hazard Zone for Locally Precedented Debris Flows
    • Hazard Zone for Locally Precedented Lava Flows and Domes
    • Hazard Zone for Pyroclastic Surges
    • Flood-Hazard Zone
  • Tephra-Hazard Zones
    • Tephra-Hazard Zones for Locally Precedented Eruptions
    • Tephra-Hazards Zones for Locally Unprecedented Eruptions
• Eruption Precursors and Warning
• Mitigating the Effects of Future Eruptions
• Acknowledgments
• References

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