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Author | : Dennis Mileti |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2019-07-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000301974 |
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This book portrays the history, causes and future of large earthquakes in the US and traces the evolution of government policy to deal with it. It reviews the range of human actions that can be taken to manage or lessen quake losses and presents a review of the current technology to predict quakes.
Author | : Dennis Mileti |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2019-09-13 |
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ISBN | : 9780367292645 |
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This book portrays the history, causes and future of large earthquakes in the US and traces the evolution of government policy to deal with it. It reviews the range of human actions that can be taken to manage or lessen quake losses and presents a review of the current technology to predict quakes.
Author | : Euan Mearns |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2021-12-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1527577961 |
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From 1966 to 1976, four large earthquakes shook the Bohai Bay rift basin of Northeast China. This prompted the Chinese to launch one of the world’s largest social and science experiments into earthquake prediction that would engage tens of thousands of common people. The climax of this came in February 1975 where a prediction was made hours before the Haicheng earthquake struck. Evacuation of the city of Yingkou and some rural districts saved thousands of lives. The Chinese were jubilant, believing they had cracked the earthquake prediction conundrum. Eighteen months later, however, on the 28th July, 1976, jubilation turned to despair when a great earthquake flattened the large industrial city of Tangshan resulting in 250,000 to 650,000 casualties. This book describes the geological, technical, political and sociological backgrounds to the Haicheng prediction success and the Tangshan prediction failure. Ahead of the Tangshan earthquake, Chinese seismologists had accumulated significant information that suggested an earthquake was imminent and came close to making a prediction. With improved knowledge and vastly improved ability to accumulate, consolidate and analyse data, this book suggests that Tangshan could have been predicted today using techniques developed in China in that epic decade of discovery. Building on these insights, it also offers a viable future pathway towards earthquake predictions that combines the insights and organisation of the 1966-1976 Chinese prediction program with modern technologies, in order to facilitate data gathering, interpretation and sharing.
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Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Earthquakes |
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Author | : Todd Tucker |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0816651612 |
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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Free Press, c2006.
Author | : Sandi Doughton |
Publisher | : Sasquatch Books |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2013-06-11 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1570618550 |
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Scientific reportage on what we know and don’t know about the mega-earthquake predicted to hit the Pacific Northwest Scientists have identified Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver as the urban centers of what will be the biggest earthquake—the Really Big One—in the continental United States. A quake will happen—in fact, it’s actually overdue. The Cascadia subduction zone is 750 miles long, running along the Pacific coast from Northern California up to southern British Columbia. In this fascinating book, The Seattle Times science reporter Sandi Doughton introduces readers to the scientists who are dedicated to understanding the way the earth moves and describes what patterns can be identified and how prepared (or not) people are. With a 100% chance of a mega-quake hitting the Pacific Northwest, this fascinating book reports on the scientists who are trying to understand when, where, and just how big The Big One will be.
Author | : Henry Fountain |
Publisher | : Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101904062 |
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On March 27, 1964, at 5-36 p.m., the biggest earthquake ever recorded in North America--and the second biggest ever in the world, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale--struck Alaska, devastating coastal towns and villages and killing more than 130 people in what was then a relatively sparsely populated region. In a riveting tale about the almost unimaginable brute force of nature, New York Times science journalist Henry Fountain, in his first trade book, re-creates the lives of the villagers and townspeople living in Chenega, Anchorage, and Valdez; describes the sheer beauty of the geology of the region, with its towering peaks and 20-mile-long glaciers; and reveals the impact of the quake on the towns, the buildings, and the lives of the inhabitants. George Plafker, a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey with years of experience scouring the Alaskan wilderness, is asked to investigate the Prince William Sound region in the aftermath of the quake, to better understand its origins. His work confirmed the then controversial theory of plate tectonics that explained how and why such deadly quakes occur, and how we can plan for the next one.
Author | : Roy Rockwood |
Publisher | : BoD - Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2022-11-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 2322454532 |
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Jack and Mark build an airship and head North, hoping to find a rare plant that grows only in Alaska. But a freak earthquake causes a chunk of the Earth, along with our protagonists, to fly into outer space.
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Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Geological mapping |
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Author | : Charles Morris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Dummies (Bookselling) |
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