Author: William T. BrighamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Historical Notes on the Earthquakes of New England
Author: William T. BrighamNew England Earthquakes
Author: John E. EbelPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493031872
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
New England and nearby areas in the United States and Canada have a long and storied history of earthquakes that goes back to the times of the earliest exploration and settlement of the region by Europeans. This may come as a surprise to the many people living in the region today who have never felt a local earthquake. Nevertheless, not only is it true, but there is every reason to believe that earthquakes, including some damaging earthquakes, will strike New England in the future. In fact, in the 1960s Boston, Massachusetts was given the same seismic hazard rating as Los Angeles, California because both had experienced strong earthquakes in their historic pasts. Since then seismologists have learned much about the rates at which earthquakes occur throughout the country and about the effects of the earthquakes when they occur. Today, we know that the probability of damaging earthquake shaking in Boston is about twenty-five times less than in Los Angeles. Even so, the threat of earthquakes in Boston, throughout New England, and in adjacent regions is one that cannot be ignored. From the 1638 so-called “Pilgrim’s Earthquake” to anticipating what the future may hold, John E. Ebel introduces you to the surprising history of earthquakes in the northeast corridor.
Earthquakes in New England
Author: Earthquakes in New England
Author: Edward S. FrattoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Historical Seismicity of New England
Author: Historic Storms of New England
Author: Sidney PerleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Our New England Earthquakes
Author: Gene SimmonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Convulsed States
Author: Jonathan Todd HancockPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469662191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Great Plains to the Atlantic Coast and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a broad cast of thinkers struggled to explain these seemingly unprecedented natural phenomena. They summoned a range of traditions of inquiry into the natural world and drew connections among signs of environmental, spiritual, and political disorder on the cusp of the War of 1812. Drawn from extensive archival research, Convulsed States probes their interpretations to offer insights into revivalism, nation remaking, and the relationship between religious and political authority across Native nations and the United States in the early nineteenth century. With a compelling narrative and rigorous comparative analysis, Jonathan Todd Hancock uses the earthquakes to bridge historical fields and shed new light on this pivotal era of nation remaking. Through varied peoples' efforts to come to grips with the New Madrid earthquakes, Hancock reframes early nineteenth-century North America as a site where all of its inhabitants wrestled with fundamental human questions amid prophecies, political reinventions, and war.
The Seismicity of New England and the Earthquake Hazard in Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts. Civil Defense Agency. Seismic Risk SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake prediction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Magnitude 8
Author: Philip L. FradkinPublisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1466864311
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Magnitude 8 is the archetypal natural disaster defined. To understand the cataclysmic earthquake that will tear California apart one day, Philip L. Fradkin has written a dramatic history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the world's best-known tectonic landscape. The author includes vivid stories of earthquakes elsewhere: in New England, the central Mississippi River Valley, New York City, Europe, and the Far East. Always, he combines human and natural drama to place the reader at the epicenter of the most instantaneous and unpredictable of all the Earth's phenomena. Following the San Andreas Fault from Cape Mecino to Mexico--canoeing the fault line in northern California and walking underground through the Hollywood fault--noted environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reclaims the human dimensions of earthquakes from the science-dominated accounts.