Disaster deferred : how new science is changing our view of earthquake hazards in the Midwest /

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In the winter of 1811-12, a series of large earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone-often incorrectly described as the biggest ever to hit the United States-shook the Midwest. Today the federal government ranks the hazard in the Midwest as high as California's and is pressuring communities t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stein, Seth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Earthquake prediction > Technological innovations.
Earthquake prediction > Middle West.
Earthquake hazard analysis > Middle West.
Tremblements de terre > Prévision > Innovations.
Tremblements de terre > Midwest (États-Unis) > Prévision.
Risques sismiques > Midwest (États-Unis)
NATURE > Earthquakes & Volcanoes.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Seismology & Volcanism.
SCIENCE > Research & Methodology.
Earthquake hazard analysis
Earthquake prediction
Middle West
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Threshold
  • Chapter 2. The Day the Earth Stood Still
  • Chapter 3. Think or Panic?
  • Chapter 4. The Perfect Mess
  • Chapter 5. Earthquake!
  • Chapter 6. Breakthrough
  • Chapter 7. How the Ground Shakes
  • Chapter 8. How Earthquakes Work
  • Chapter 9. Plate Tectonics Explains (Most) Earthquakes
  • Chapter 10. Earthquakes Th at Shouldn't Happen
  • Chapter 11. What's Going on Down Th ere?
  • Chapter 12. Guidance from Heaven
  • Chapter 13. Faults Turning On and Off
  • Chapter 14. More Dangerous than California?
  • Chapter 15. Chemotherapy for a Cold
  • Chapter 16. What to Do?
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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