Predicting the Unpredictable : : The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction /

Predicting the Unpredictable : : The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction / / Susan Elizabeth Hough.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Hough, Susan Elizabeth,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2010
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Ready to Rumble
  • Chapter 2. Ready to Explode
  • Chapter 3. Irregular Clocks
  • Chapter 4. The Hayward Fault
  • Chapter 5. Predicting the Unpredictable
  • Chapter 6. The Road to Haicheng
  • Chapter 7. Percolation
  • Chapter 8. The Heyday
  • Chapter 9. The Hangover
  • Chapter 10. Highly Charged Debates
  • Chapter 11. Reading the Tea Leaves
  • Chapter 12. Accelerating Moment Release
  • Chapter 13. On the Fringe
  • Chapter 14. Complicity
  • Chapter 15. Measles
  • Chapter 16. We All Have Our Faults
  • Chapter 17. The Bad One
  • Chapter 18. Whither Earthquake Prediction?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • General Index
  • Index of Earthquakes by Year

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