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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 cataclysmic 2008 Sichuan quake in China that killed tens of thousands or a future great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in California, which scientists know is inevitable. Yet despite rapid a...
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| Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2010.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Ready to rumble
- Ready to explode
- Irregular clocks
- The Hayward Fault
- Predicting the unpredictable
- The road to Haicheng
- Percolation
- The heyday
- The Hangover
- Highly charged debates
- Reading the tea leaves
- Accelerating moment release
- On the fringe
- Complicity
- Measles
- We all have our faults
- The bad one
- Whither earthquake prediction?