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Disaster Deferred

- A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
Af: Seth Stein Engelsk Hardback

Disaster Deferred

- A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
Af: Seth Stein Engelsk Hardback
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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.
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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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 296
ISBN-13: 9780231151382
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0231151381
Kategori: Vulkanologi og seismologi
Udg. Dato: 15 okt 2010
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 236mm
Højde: 164mm
Forlag: Columbia University Press
Oplagsdato: 15 okt 2010
Forfatter(e): Seth Stein
Forfatter(e) Seth Stein

Kategori Vulkanologi og seismologi

ISBN-13 9780231151382

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 296

Udgave

Længde 25mm

Bredde 236mm

Højde 164mm

Udg. Dato 15 okt 2010

Oplagsdato 15 okt 2010

Forlag Columbia University Press

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