CONTENTS Preface (in) List of Contributors (vii) 65. Engineers Role in Earthquake Disaster Reduction in India 3697 66. Engineering for Mitigation of Landslide Disasters 3727 67. Improved Model for Cyclone Damage Evaluation 3751 68. An Overview of Flood Management in India 3761 69. Case Studies on Seismic Retrofitting 3793 70. Earthquake Disaster Prevention-An Overview 3805 71. Microzonation Studies as Impacted by Recent Earthquakes in India 3815 72. Influence of Modeling Uncertainties on Dynamic Response of RCC Buildings 3831 73. Base Isolated Structures During Past Earthquakes 3839 74. G.K. General Hospital, Bhuj, An Experiment in Seismic Base Isolation 3851 75. Seismic Isolation of Bridges in Existing Practice 3859 76. Rehabilitation of Seismically Affected Non-Engineered Buildings 3871 77. Prediction of Coastal Earthquakes Using Surface Latent Heat Flux Retrieved from Satellite Data 3881 78. Earthquake Resistant Construction Technology- An Innovative Concept of Shear Wall Structural System, Using Rat-Trap-Bond Brick Masonry 3889 79. Assessment of Earthquake Disaster 3903 80. Importance of Seismic Resistant Concrete Gravity Dam in Seismic Prone Area Like North East India 3911 (xvi) Encyclopaedia of Disaster Management 81. Estimation of Seismic Vulnerability of Buildings in Delhi 3925 82. A Strategy for Cyclone Disaster Mitigation- Real Time Storm Surge Prediction 3947 83. Flood: A Common Disaster in Bangladesh 3957 84. Structural Damages Due To Cyclones and Their Retrofitting - A Case Study 3967 85. Disaster Management During Super Cyclone in Remote Coastal Orissa 3979 86. Mitigating Desertification in North-East Nigeria; How Far, So Far? 3993 87. Integrated Water Management for Drought Mitigation 4007 88. Role of Indian Navy in Orissa Super Cyclone of October 1999 4023 89. Occurrence and Mitigation of Flash Floods 4033 90. Creation of a Centre of Excellence for Cyclone Disaster Mitigation 4045 91. An Actual Experience of Disastrous FLoods in North India - Lessons There of 4057 92. Information Technology for Mitigation of Floods 4067 93. Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB) as Disaster Mitigation Tool in the Himalayan River Basin 4081 94. A New Approach to Avalanche Forecasting and Disaster Management for Western Himalaya 4095 95. Devastating Events of Cloudburst Leading to Landslide Disaster and its Consequences in Garhwal Himalaya 4109 96. Landslide Hazard in North East India: A Case Study 4119 97. Natural Disaster Mitigation-An Integrated Approach for Forecasting of Landslides 4129 98. Prediction Of Landslide Using An Intelligent Approach- A Case Study 4141 99. Religious Heritage in the Himalayas, Mapping and Risk Assessment (El) 4147 100. Hydrological Analysis of Severe Rainstorms in North West India 4155 101. Effective Management of Chemical Hazards Associated with Natural Disasters 4165 102. Disaster Management and Land Slide Mitigation in Sikkim 4181