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Predicting the unpredictable : the tumultuous science of earthquake prediction /

An earthquake can strike without warning and wreak horrific destruction and death, whether it's the catastrophic 2010 quake that took a devastating toll on the island nation of Haiti or a future great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in California, which scientists know is inevitable. Yet de...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hough, Susan Elizabeth, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Pres, 2016.
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Preface to the Paperback Edition --  |t 1. Ready to Rumble --  |t 2. Ready to Explode --  |t 3. Irregular Clocks --  |t 4. The Hayward Fault --  |t 5. Predicting the Unpredictable --  |t 6. The Road to Haicheng --  |t 7. Percolation --  |t 8. The Heyday --  |t 9. The Hangover --  |t 10. Highly Charged Debates --  |t 11. Reading the Tea Leaves --  |t 12. Accelerating Moment Release --  |t 13. On the Fringe --  |t 14. Complicity --  |t 15. Measles --  |t 16. We All Have Our Faults --  |t 17. The Bad One --  |t 18. Whither Earthquake Prediction? --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Notes --  |t General Index --  |t Index of Earthquakes by Year. 
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