Author: Los Angeles County (Calif.). Department of Regional Planning
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Seismic Safety/safety
Author: Elizabeth S. Crowder
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Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Earthquake hazard analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Open-file Report
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Category : Geological surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geological surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Earthquake and Fire Act Authorization
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989--recovery, Mitigation, and Reconstruction
Author: Joanne M. Nigg
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Adequacy of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act in Mitigating the Effects of Future U.S. Earthquakes
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
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Category : Earthquake prediction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake prediction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Seismic Safety and Land-use Planning--selected Examples from California
Author: M. L. Blair
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Methods for using seismic zonation and hazard mapping in land-use planning and regulation.
Publisher:
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Methods for using seismic zonation and hazard mapping in land-use planning and regulation.
Earthquake Insurance Availability
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
A Workshop on "Preparing for and Responding to a Damaging Earthquake in the Eastern United States"
Author:
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Publisher:
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
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.