Earth-shattering events : earthquakes, nations, and civilization /

Earth-Shattering Events seeks to understand exactly how humans and earthquakes have interacted, not only in the short term but also in the long perspective of history. In some cases, physical devastation has been followed by decline. But in others, the political and economic reverberations of earthq...

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Main Author: Robinson, A. G. (Andrew G.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Thames & Hudson, 2016.
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505 0 |a Introduction : earthquakes and history -- Earthquakes before seismology -- The year of earthquakes : London, 1750 -- The wrath of God : Lisbon, 1755 -- Birth of nations : Caracas, 1812 -- Seismology begins : Naples, 1857 -- Elastic rebound : San Francisco, 1906 -- Holocaust in Japan : Tokyo and Yokohama, 1923 -- Birth pang of a new China : Tangshan, 1976 -- Grief and growth in the land of Gandhi : Gujarat, 2001 -- War and peace by tsunami : the Indian Ocean, 2004 -- Meltdown and after : Fukushima, 2011 -- Conclusion : earthquakes, nations and civilization. 
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