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After the Earth quakes : elastic rebound on an urban planet /
Earthquakes rank among the most terrifying natural disasters faced by mankind. Out of a clear blue sky - or worse, a jet black one - comes shaking strong enough to hurl furniture across the room, human bodies out of bed, and entire houses off of their foundations. When the dust settles, the immediat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Impacts and Reverberations; 2 Earthquakes and Ancient Cities:Armageddon-Not the End of the World; 3 The Lisbon Earthquake and the Age of Reason; 4 Tecumseh's Legacy: The Enduring Enigma of the New Madrid Earthquakes; 5 19th-Century Temblors: A Science Is Born; 6 The 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, Earthquake; 7 Finding Faults in California; 8 The 1923 Kanto Earthquake: Surviving Doomsday; 9 Hazards of the Caribbean; 10 Tsunami!; 11 City of Angels or Edge City?; 12 Earthquakes as Urban Renewal?; 13 Demonic Demographics; 14 The Age of Construction; Notes and Suggested Readings.
- IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.