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Active faults of the world /

"Providing the first worldwide survey of active earthquake faults, this book focuses on those described as 'seismic time bombs' - with the potential to destroy large cities in the developing world such as Port au Prince, Kabul, Tehran and Caracas. Leading international earthquake expe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yeats, Robert S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Methods and background
  • Alaska, Canada, Cascadia, and eastern North America
  • San Andreas system and basin and range
  • Caribbean Plate and Middle America subduction zone
  • South America
  • Africa, Arabia, and Western Europe
  • Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and the Middle East
  • India, the Himalaya, mainland China, and central Asia
  • Japan and the western Pacific
  • Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands.