The Politics of Earthquake Prediction / / Richard S. Olson, Joanne M. Nigg, Bruno Podesta.
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...
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