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Acknowledgements
I want express my thanks to Dr. Rick McKenzie (Berkley Digital Seismic Network) and Dr. Madeleine Zibres (U.S. Geological Survey) for their help in the search for online databases. I also wish to thank the OFDA/CRED International Disasters Database, the U.S. Geological Survey, the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, and the Global Volcanism Program for making their databases readily available to the public.
And finally, a huge thank goes to my mother, Svetlana Petelina, and to my brother, Alex Petelin, and my friends, who supported me during the project preparation.