Author: Charles DavisonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A History of British Earthquakes, by Charles Davison,...
Author: Charles DavisonA History of British Earthquakes
Author: Charles DavisonPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A History of British Earthquakes
Author: Charles DavisonPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Origin of Earthquakes, by Charles Davison,...
Author: Charles DavisonThe Origin of Earthquakes
Author: Charles DavisonPublisher:
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Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A Study of Recent Earthquakes
Author: Charles DavisonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752372907
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison
The Naturalist
Author: Earthquake
Author: Andrew RobinsonPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780230613
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The 2011 devastating, tsunami-triggering quake off the coast of Japan and 2010’s horrifying destruction in Haiti reinforce the fact that large cities in every continent are at risk from earthquakes. Quakes threaten Los Angeles, Beijing, Cairo, Delhi, Singapore, and many more cities, and despite advances in earthquake science and engineering and improved disaster preparedness by governments and international aid agencies, they continue to cause immense loss of life and property damage. Earthquake explores the occurrence of major earthquakes around the world, their effects on the societies where they strike, and the other catastrophes they cause, from landslides and fires to floods and tsunamis. Examining the science involved in measuring and explaining earthquakes, Andrew Robinson looks at our attempts to design against their consequences and the possibility of having the ability to predict them one day. Robinson also delves into the ways nations have mythologized earthquakes through religion and the arts—Norse mythology explained earthquakes as the violent struggling of the god Loki as he was punished for murdering another god, the ancient Greeks believed Poseidon caused earthquakes whenever he was in a bad mood or wanted to punish people, and Japanese mythology states that Namazu, a giant catfish, triggers quakes when he thrashes around. He discusses the portrayal of earthquakes in popular culture, where authors and filmmakers often use the memory of cities laid to waste—such as Kobe, Japan, in 1995 or San Francisco in 1906—or imagine the hypothetical “Big One,” the earthquake expected someday out of California’s San Andreas Fault. With tremors happening in seemingly implausible places like Chicago and Washington DC, Earthquake is a timely book that will enrich earthquake scholarship and enlighten anyone interested in these ruinous natural disasters.
The Earthquake Observers
Author: Deborah R. CoenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226111814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This book explains how observing networks transformed an instant of panic and confusion into a field for scientific research, turning earthquakes into natural experiments at the nexus of the physical and human sciences.
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