EPS SCI 13Natural Disasters
Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Global urbanization together with historical demographic population shift to coastal areas, especially around Pacific Ocean’s Ring of Fire, are placing increasingly large parts of this planet’s human population at risk due to earthquakes, volcanos, and tsunamis. Global climate change combines with variety of geologic processes to create enhanced risks from catastrophic mass movements (e.g., landslides), hurricanes, floods, and fires. Exploration of physical processes behind natural disasters and discussion of how these natural events affect quality of human life.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Winter 2027
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
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