Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake prediction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Responses to Iben Browning's Prediction of a 1990 New Madrid, Missouri, Earthquake
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake prediction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake prediction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
A Guide to Products and Services
Author: National Earthquake Information Center
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seismology
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seismology
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America
Author: John E. Farley
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809321773
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
When self-proclaimed climatologist Iben Browning predicted that a major earthquake would shatter the Heartland on 2 or 3 December 1990, many living within reach of the New Madrid fault zone reacted with varying combinations of preparation and panic.
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809321773
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
When self-proclaimed climatologist Iben Browning predicted that a major earthquake would shatter the Heartland on 2 or 3 December 1990, many living within reach of the New Madrid fault zone reacted with varying combinations of preparation and panic.
New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Circular
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Magnitude 8
Author: Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1466864311
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Magnitude 8 is the archetypal natural disaster defined. To understand the cataclysmic earthquake that will tear California apart one day, Philip L. Fradkin has written a dramatic history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the world's best-known tectonic landscape. The author includes vivid stories of earthquakes elsewhere: in New England, the central Mississippi River Valley, New York City, Europe, and the Far East. Always, he combines human and natural drama to place the reader at the epicenter of the most instantaneous and unpredictable of all the Earth's phenomena. Following the San Andreas Fault from Cape Mecino to Mexico--canoeing the fault line in northern California and walking underground through the Hollywood fault--noted environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reclaims the human dimensions of earthquakes from the science-dominated accounts.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1466864311
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Magnitude 8 is the archetypal natural disaster defined. To understand the cataclysmic earthquake that will tear California apart one day, Philip L. Fradkin has written a dramatic history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the world's best-known tectonic landscape. The author includes vivid stories of earthquakes elsewhere: in New England, the central Mississippi River Valley, New York City, Europe, and the Far East. Always, he combines human and natural drama to place the reader at the epicenter of the most instantaneous and unpredictable of all the Earth's phenomena. Following the San Andreas Fault from Cape Mecino to Mexico--canoeing the fault line in northern California and walking underground through the Hollywood fault--noted environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reclaims the human dimensions of earthquakes from the science-dominated accounts.
Cartographies of Danger
Author: Mark Monmonier
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226534183
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Preface Acknowledgments 1: Map Scale, Danger Zones, and Safe Places 2: Shaky Preparations 3: Lavas and Other Strangers 4: Uncertain Shores 5: Death Tracks 6: Floodplains, by Definition... 7: Subterranean Poisons 8: Ill Winds 9: Short-Lived Daughters and ELF Fields 10: Nuclear Nightmares 11: Imagining Vulnerability 12: Crimescapes 13: John Snow's Legacy 14: Emerging Cartographies of Danger Notes Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226534183
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Preface Acknowledgments 1: Map Scale, Danger Zones, and Safe Places 2: Shaky Preparations 3: Lavas and Other Strangers 4: Uncertain Shores 5: Death Tracks 6: Floodplains, by Definition... 7: Subterranean Poisons 8: Ill Winds 9: Short-Lived Daughters and ELF Fields 10: Nuclear Nightmares 11: Imagining Vulnerability 12: Crimescapes 13: John Snow's Legacy 14: Emerging Cartographies of Danger Notes Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Earthquake Science and Seismic Risk Reduction
Author: F. Mulargia
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401000417
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
What is the first thing that ordinary people, for whom journalists are the proxy, ask when they meet a seismologist? It is certainly nothing technical like "What was the stress drop of the last earthquake in the Imperial Valley?" It is a sim ple question, which nevertheless summarizes the real demands that society has for seismology. This question is "Can you predict earthquakes?" Regrettably, notwithstanding the feeling of omnipotence induced by modem technology, the answer at present is the very opposite of "Yes, of course". The primary motivation for the question "Can you predict earthquakes?" is practical. No other natural phenomenon has the tremendous destructive power of a large earthquake, a power which is rivaled only by a large scale war. An earth quake in a highly industrialized region is capable of adversely affecting the econ omy of the whole world for several years. But another motivation is cognitive. The aim of science is 'understanding' nature, and one of the best ways to show that we understand a phenomenon is the ability to make accurate predictions.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401000417
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
What is the first thing that ordinary people, for whom journalists are the proxy, ask when they meet a seismologist? It is certainly nothing technical like "What was the stress drop of the last earthquake in the Imperial Valley?" It is a sim ple question, which nevertheless summarizes the real demands that society has for seismology. This question is "Can you predict earthquakes?" Regrettably, notwithstanding the feeling of omnipotence induced by modem technology, the answer at present is the very opposite of "Yes, of course". The primary motivation for the question "Can you predict earthquakes?" is practical. No other natural phenomenon has the tremendous destructive power of a large earthquake, a power which is rivaled only by a large scale war. An earth quake in a highly industrialized region is capable of adversely affecting the econ omy of the whole world for several years. But another motivation is cognitive. The aim of science is 'understanding' nature, and one of the best ways to show that we understand a phenomenon is the ability to make accurate predictions.
The Conterminous United States Mineral Assessment Program
Author: Wayne B. Solley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth movements
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth movements
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description