Earthquake /

Los Angeles and Tokyo, Instanbul and Beijing, Lima and Cairo are among the more than 60 large cities at definite risk from an earthquake. Although European cities seem less vulnerable, devastating earthquakes have hit Athens, Bucharest, Lisbon, Madrid, Rome and Naples, among others, over the past th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robinson, Andrew
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2012.
Series:Earth series (Reaktion Books (Firm))
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Earth-shattering events
  • Lisbon, 1755: the wrath of God
  • Seismology begins
  • Tokyo, 1923: Holocaust
  • Measuring earthquakes
  • Faults, plates and drifting continents
  • Caifornia: the enigma of the San Andreas fault
  • Prediction of the unpredictable
  • Designing against death.