Earthquake time bombs / Robert Yeats, Oregon State University.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Yeats, Robert S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Earthquake prediction.
• Earthquakes.
• Seismology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 346 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a media interview in January 2010, scientist Robert Yeats sounded the alarm on Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as an 'earthquake time bomb', a region at critical risk of major seismic activity. One week later, a catastrophic earthquake struck the city, leaving over 100,000 dead and triggering a humanitarian crisis. In this timely study, Yeats sheds new light on other earthquake hotspots around the world and the communities at risk. He examines these seismic threats in the context of recent cultural history, including economic development, national politics and international conflicts. Descriptions of emerging seismic resilience plans from some cities provide a more hopeful picture. Essential reading for policy-makers, infrastructure and emergency planners, scientists, students and anyone living in the shadow of an earthquake, this book raises the alarm so that we can protect our vulnerable cities before it's too late.

Contents:

• Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgments ; Why this book? ; Part I Earthquakes, deep time, and the population explosion ; Part II Earthquake time bombs ; Part III Summary and recommendations ; References ; Index
• 1 Plate tectonics and why we have earthquakes 2 An earthquake primer ; 3 Deep time ; 4 When's the next Big One? ; 5 Population explosion and increased earthquake risk to megacities ; Introduction ; Time bombs where the problem is understood, but the response is still inadequate
• Other time bombs, including cities that are not well prepared 28 Where do we go from here? ; Introduction ; The paradigm shift to plate tectonics ; Paleomagnetism ; Sea-floor spreading ; Transform faults ; Trenches and subduction zones ; Plate tectonics
• Plate tectonics and earthquakes Introduction ; How big is the earthquake, and where is it? ; The earthquake symphony ; Earthquake intensity ; Introduction and frustration ; Earthquake prediction ; The problem with earthquake swarms ; Probabilistic forecasting
• Operational earthquake forecasting Deterministic forecasting ; Resilience survey ; Earthquake mitigation: where's the sweet spot? ; Introduction ; The population explosion ; Buildings can be made safer, so why does the death toll from earthquakes stay so high?
• Population and losses from earthquakes

Notes:

• Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Nov 2015).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 1-316-43015-4
• 1-316-43441-9
• 1-316-43512-1
• 1-316-43796-5
• 1-316-43583-0
• 1-316-43938-0
• 1-316-04818-7