Earthshaking Science
What We Know (and Don't Know) about Earthquakes
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Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7757245M
- Internet Archiveearthshakingscie00houg
- Internet Archiveearthshakingscie00houg_372
- Internet Archiveisbn_9780691118192
- ISBN-100691050104
and 4 more
- ISBN-139780691050102
- Library of Congress Control Number2001038751
- OCLC Control Number47831440
- Better World Books9780691050102
Classifications
- LCCQE534.3 .H68 2002
- LCCQE534.3.H68 2002
Description
"Earthshaking Science is the first book to really make sense of the dizzying array of information that has emerged in recent decades about earthquakes. Susan Hough, a research seismologist in one of North America's most active earthquake zones and an expert at communicating this complex science to the public, separates fact from fiction. She fills in many of the blanks that remained after plate tectonics theory, in the 1960s, first gave us a rough idea of just what earthquakes are about. How do earthquakes start? How do they stop? Do earthquakes occur at regular intervals on faults? If not, why not? Are earthquakes predictable? How hard will the ground shake following an earthquake of a given magnitude? How does one quantify future seismic hazard?"--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
Our fascination with earthquakes likely dates back to the dawn of human awareness, but efforts to understand them were doomed to failure prior to the 1960s.
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