Disaster deferred [Book] : how new science is changing our view of earthquake hazards in the Midwest / Seth Stein.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2010.Description: x, 282 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780231522410 (ebook)
- 9780231151399 (pbk.)
- 9780231151382 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 551.220978 22
- 551.220978
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551.22028 GAL-E Earthquake seismology : tools, techniques and instrumentaion / | 551.220284 HAV-I Nanostructures in biological systems : theory and applications / | 551.220284 HAV-I Instrumentation in earthquake seismology | 551.220978 STE-D Disaster deferred how new science is changing our view of earthquake hazards in the Midwest / | 551.3 THE Thermal remote sensing in land surface processes | 551.307 MEH-L Landslide disaster : assessment and management / | 551.31 KNI-G Glacier science and environmental change / |
"Disaster deferred: a new view of earthquake hazards in the new madrid seismic zone"--Cover title
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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