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After the Earth quakes : elastic rebound on an Urban planet / by Susan Elizabeth Hough and Roger G. Bilham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hough, Susan Elizabeth, 1961-
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elastic rebound theory.
- Earthquakes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Elastic rebound is one of the most basic tenets of modern earthquake science, the term that scientists use to describe the build-up and release of energy along faults. It is also the best metaphor for societal responses to major earthquakes in recent historic times. After The Earth Quakes focuses on this theme, using a number of pivotal and intriguing historic earthquakes as illustration. The book concludes with a consideration of projected future losses on an increasingly urbanized planet, including the near-certainty that a future earthquake will someday claim over a million lives. This grim prediction impels us to take steps to mitigate earthquake risk, the innately human capacity for rebound notwithstanding.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 Impacts and Reverberations
- 2 Earthquakes and Ancient Cities:Armageddon-Not the End of the World
- 3 The Lisbon Earthquake and the Age of Reason
- 4 Tecumseh's Legacy: The Enduring Enigma of the New Madrid Earthquakes
- 5 19th-Century Temblors: A Science Is Born
- 6 The 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, Earthquake
- 7 Finding Faults in California
- 8 The 1923 Kanto Earthquake: Surviving Doomsday
- 9 Hazards of the Caribbean
- 10 Tsunami!
- 11 City of Angels or Edge City?
- 12 Earthquakes as Urban Renewal?
- 13 Demonic Demographics
- 14 The Age of Construction
- Notes and Suggested Readings
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029252-0
- 0-19-756229-9
- 1-280-42843-0
- 1-4237-3489-0
- 0-19-972750-3
- 1-60256-545-7
- OCLC:
- 84375026
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