Author: Douglas B. Bausch
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Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Synopsis of Seismic Threats in the Western United States
Author: Douglas B. Bausch
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Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Publisher:
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Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Western States Seismic Policy Council 1996 Annual Conference Proceedings
Author: Western States Seismic Policy Council. Meeting
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Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes
Author: Conevery Bolton Valencius
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022605392X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent’s mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the time the nation began to recover from the Civil War, the New Madrid earthquakes had been essentially forgotten. In The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, Conevery Bolton Valencius remembers this major environmental disaster, demonstrating how events that have been long forgotten, even denied and ridiculed as tall tales, were in fact enormously important at the time of their occurrence, and continue to affect us today. Valencius weaves together scientific and historical evidence to demonstrate the vast role the New Madrid earthquakes played in the United States in the early nineteenth century, shaping the settlement patterns of early western Cherokees and other Indians, heightening the credibility of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa for their Indian League in the War of 1812, giving force to frontier religious revival, and spreading scientific inquiry. Moving into the present, Valencius explores the intertwined reasons—environmental, scientific, social, and economic—why something as consequential as major earthquakes can be lost from public knowledge, offering a cautionary tale in a world struggling to respond to global climate change amid widespread willful denial. Engagingly written and ambitiously researched—both in the scientific literature and the writings of the time—The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes will be an important resource in environmental history, geology, and seismology, as well as history of science and medicine and early American and Native American history.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022605392X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 471
Book Description
From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent’s mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the time the nation began to recover from the Civil War, the New Madrid earthquakes had been essentially forgotten. In The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, Conevery Bolton Valencius remembers this major environmental disaster, demonstrating how events that have been long forgotten, even denied and ridiculed as tall tales, were in fact enormously important at the time of their occurrence, and continue to affect us today. Valencius weaves together scientific and historical evidence to demonstrate the vast role the New Madrid earthquakes played in the United States in the early nineteenth century, shaping the settlement patterns of early western Cherokees and other Indians, heightening the credibility of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa for their Indian League in the War of 1812, giving force to frontier religious revival, and spreading scientific inquiry. Moving into the present, Valencius explores the intertwined reasons—environmental, scientific, social, and economic—why something as consequential as major earthquakes can be lost from public knowledge, offering a cautionary tale in a world struggling to respond to global climate change amid widespread willful denial. Engagingly written and ambitiously researched—both in the scientific literature and the writings of the time—The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes will be an important resource in environmental history, geology, and seismology, as well as history of science and medicine and early American and Native American history.
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, Summaries of Technical Reports Volume XXXII
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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Publisher:
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Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, Summaries of Technical Reports, Volume XXVI
Author:
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Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Publisher:
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Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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A Review of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (2011). Subcommittee on Research and Technology
Publisher:
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Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program
Author: Mary L. Schnell
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Publisher:
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, Summaries of Technical Reports Volume XXXIII
Author:
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Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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List of Geological Survey Geologic and Water-supply Reports and Maps for Utah
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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