| Description |
1 online resource (x, 282 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 to undertake expensive preparations for disaster. Disaster Deferred revisits these earthquakes, the legends surrounding them, and the predictions of doom following in their wake. Seth Stein clearly explains the techniques seismologists use to study Midwestern quakes and estimate their danger. Detailing how limited scientific knowledge, bureaucratic instincts, and the media's love of a good story have exaggerated these hazards, Stein calmly debunks the hype surrounding such predictions and encourages the formulation of more sensible, less costly policy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-268) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Earthquake prediction -- Technological innovations
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Earthquake prediction -- Middle West
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Earthquake hazard analysis -- Middle West
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NATURE -- Earthquakes & Volcanoes.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Seismology & Volcanism.
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SCIENCE -- Research & Methodology.
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Earthquake hazard analysis
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Earthquake prediction
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Middle West
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010029738 |
| ISBN |
9780231522410 |
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023152241X |
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9780231151399 |
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023115139X |
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1281829315 |
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9781281829313 |
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9786613791818 |
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6613791814 |
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