Disaster Deferred : : A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone /

Disaster Deferred : : A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone / / Seth Stein.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Stein, Seth,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 55 halftones, 38 line drawings, 2 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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