Disaster Deferred
A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2010
296 pages
978-0-231-52241-0 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York, NY
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
55 halftones, 38 line drawings, 2 tables
55 halftones, 38 line drawings, 2 tables
File size
7,86 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-231-52241-0 (9780231522410)
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07/2012
Columbia University Press
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10/2010
Columbia University Press
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Person
Seth Stein is Deering Professor of Geological Sciences at Northwestern University. He has received the James B. Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union, the George P. Woollard Award of the Geological Society of America, and the Stephan Mueller Medal of the European Geosciences Union. He has also been elected a foreign member of the Academy of Europe and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and Geological Society of America. He is a coauthor of a widely used seismology textbook, a former editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research, and the founder of Northwestern's Environmental Science program.
Content
1. Threshold
2. The Day the Earth Stood Still
3. Think or Panic?
4. The Perfect Mess
5. Earthquake!
6. Breakthrough
7. How the Ground Shakes
8. How Earthquakes Work
9. Plate Tectonics Explains (Most) Earthquakes
10. Earthquakes That Shouldn't Happen
11. What's Going on Down There?
12. Guidance from Heaven
13. Faults Turning On and Off
14. More Dangerous than California?
15. Chemotherapy for a Cold
16. What to Do?
Further Reading and Sources
References
Acknowledgments
Index
2. The Day the Earth Stood Still
3. Think or Panic?
4. The Perfect Mess
5. Earthquake!
6. Breakthrough
7. How the Ground Shakes
8. How Earthquakes Work
9. Plate Tectonics Explains (Most) Earthquakes
10. Earthquakes That Shouldn't Happen
11. What's Going on Down There?
12. Guidance from Heaven
13. Faults Turning On and Off
14. More Dangerous than California?
15. Chemotherapy for a Cold
16. What to Do?
Further Reading and Sources
References
Acknowledgments
Index
Read the chapter 1 of Disaster Deferred, "Threshold" (to view in full screen, click on icon in bottom right-hand corner):
