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The Politics of Earthquake Prediction.
The Politics of Earthquake Prediction is a suspenseful account of what happens when scientists predict an enormous earthquake for a specific day--an earthquake that did not, in this instance, happen, but which, if it had, would have been one of the most destructive of our century. Working in a field...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Princeton legacy library.
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| 520 | |a The Politics of Earthquake Prediction is a suspenseful account of what happens when scientists predict an enormous earthquake for a specific day--an earthquake that did not, in this instance, happen, but which, if it had, would have been one of the most destructive of our century. Working in a field where uncertainty abounds, Dr. Brian Brady of the U.S. Bureau of Mines and Dr. William Spence of the U.S. Geological Survey gradually came to the conclusion that a catastrophic quake would occur on June 28, 1981, off the coast of central Peru, near the great population center of Lima-Call. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t PREFACE -- |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- |t ONE. Introduction: Politics and Science -- |t TWO. A Prediction Contained, 1976-1979 -- |t THREE. The Stakes Increase, 1979 -- |t FOUR. Bureaucratic Politics Takes Over, 1980 -- |t FIVE. Late 1980: The Prediction Goes Public-in the U.S. -- |t SIX. Brady's 1981 "Trial": The First Day -- |t SEVEN. Hardball: The Second Day of the Trial -- |t EIGHT. The Controversy Continues -- |t NINE. "Doomsday" Approaches -and Passes -- |t TEN. Reflections -- |t NOTES -- |t INDEX |
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