Author: Dean S. Carder
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Earthquake Investigations in the Western United States, 1931-1964
Author: Dean S. Carder
Publisher:
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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United States Earthquakes, 1964
Author: Carl A. Von Hake
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Earthquake Investigation in the United States
Author: Jerry L. Coffman
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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United States Earthquakes
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Earthquake Data Services and Publications
Author: National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Building Practices for Disaster Mitigation
Author: Richard Newport Wright
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Category : Earthquake resistant design
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Category : Earthquake resistant design
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Seismological Publications and Services
Author: National Geophysical and Solar-Terrestrial Data Center
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Category : Seismology
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Seismology
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Building Science Series
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Category : Building materials
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Building materials
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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California Earthquakes
Author: Carl-Henry Geschwind
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801873606
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Winner of the Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in America from the History of Science Society In 1906, after an earthquake wiped out much of San Francisco, leading California officials and scientists described the disaster as a one-time occurrence and assured the public that it had nothing to worry about. California Earthquakes explains how, over time, this attitude changed, and Californians came to accept earthquakes as a significant threat, as well as to understand how science and technology could reduce this threat. Carl-Henry Geschwind tells the story of the small group of scientists and engineers who—in tension with real estate speculators and other pro-growth forces, private and public—developed the scientific and political infrastructure necessary to implement greater earthquake awareness. Through their political connections, these reformers succeeded in building a state apparatus in which regulators could work together with scientists and engineers to reduce earthquake hazards. Geschwind details the conflicts among scientists and engineers about how best to reduce these risks, and he outlines the dramatic twentieth-century advances in our understanding of earthquakes—their causes and how we can try to prepare for them. Tracing the history of seismology and the rise of the regulatory state and of environmental awareness, California Earthquakes tells how earthquake-hazard management came about, why some groups assisted and others fought it, and how scientists and engineers helped shape it.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801873606
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Winner of the Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in America from the History of Science Society In 1906, after an earthquake wiped out much of San Francisco, leading California officials and scientists described the disaster as a one-time occurrence and assured the public that it had nothing to worry about. California Earthquakes explains how, over time, this attitude changed, and Californians came to accept earthquakes as a significant threat, as well as to understand how science and technology could reduce this threat. Carl-Henry Geschwind tells the story of the small group of scientists and engineers who—in tension with real estate speculators and other pro-growth forces, private and public—developed the scientific and political infrastructure necessary to implement greater earthquake awareness. Through their political connections, these reformers succeeded in building a state apparatus in which regulators could work together with scientists and engineers to reduce earthquake hazards. Geschwind details the conflicts among scientists and engineers about how best to reduce these risks, and he outlines the dramatic twentieth-century advances in our understanding of earthquakes—their causes and how we can try to prepare for them. Tracing the history of seismology and the rise of the regulatory state and of environmental awareness, California Earthquakes tells how earthquake-hazard management came about, why some groups assisted and others fought it, and how scientists and engineers helped shape it.
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Category : Geophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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