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 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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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,
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Hough, Susan Elizabeth.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
©2009
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 36 halftones. 4 line illus. 4 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition
  • 1. Ready to Rumble
  • 2. Ready to Explode
  • 3. Irregular Clocks
  • 4. The Hayward Fault
  • 5. Predicting the Unpredictable
  • 6. The Road to Haicheng
  • 7. Percolation
  • 8. The Heyday
  • 9. The Hangover
  • 10. Highly Charged Debates
  • 11. Reading the Tea Leaves
  • 12. Accelerating Moment Release
  • 13. On the Fringe
  • 14. Complicity
  • 15. Measles
  • 16. We All Have Our Faults
  • 17. The Bad One
  • 18. Whither Earthquake Prediction?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • General Index
  • Index of Earthquakes by Year

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