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

Stein, Seth

ISBN 10: 023115139X / ISBN 13: 9780231151399

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2012

Beschreibung

Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers M023115139XZ3

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Disaster Deferred: A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 023115139X
• ISBN-13: 9780231151399
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

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. Coinciding with the two-hundredth anniversary of the New Madrid earthquakes, Disaster Deferred revisits these earthquakes, the legends that have grown around them, and the predictions of doom that have followed 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. Powered by insider knowledge and an engaging style, Disaster Deferred shows how new geological ideas and data, including those from the Global Positioning System, are painting a very different-and much less frightening-picture of the future.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Seth Stein is the William Deering Professor of Geological Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Northwestern University. He is the author of Disaster Deferred (CUP 2010) among several other titles and over 100 articles.