Description: Further DetailsTitle: Disaster DeferredCondition: NewEAN: 9780231151382ISBN: 9780231151382Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/15/2010Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Seth SteinLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic ZoneISBN-10: 0231151381Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Disaster Deferred
Title: Disaster Deferred
EAN: 9780231151382
ISBN: 9780231151382
Release Date: 10/15/2010
Release Year: 2010
Subtitle: A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
ISBN-10: 0231151381
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Disaster Deferred : a New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2010
Subject: Sociology / General, Earth Sciences / Geology, Earth Sciences / Seismology & Volcanism, Earthquakes & Volcanoes, Research & Methodology
Item Height: 0.1 in
Item Weight: 18.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Seth Stein
Item Length: 0.9 in
Subject Area: Nature, Social Science, Science
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
