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Earthquakes. You only need to worry about them if you're in San Francisco, right? Wrong. We have been making enormous changes to subterranean America, and Mother Earth, as always, has been making some of her own. The consequences for our real estate, our civil engineering, and our communities will be huge because they will include earthquakes most of us do not expect and cannot imagine. The era of human-induced earthquakes began in 1962 in Colorado,...
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"Scientists have identified Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver as the urban centers of what will be the biggest earthquake, also called a mega-quake, in the continental United States. A quake will happen--in fact it's actually overdue. The Cascadia subduction zone is 750 miles long, running along the Pacific coast from Northern California up to southern British Columbia. In this fascinating book, The Seattle Times science reporter Sandi Doughton introduces...
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Columbia University Press
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English
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"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...
5) Predictive model for important ground motion parameters associated with large and great earthquakes
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U.S. Geological Survey bulletin volume 1838
Pub. Date
1988
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English
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8) Earthquake
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WGBH Boston
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Will the earth send us a warning signal before the next 'big one' strikes? Predicting earthquakes is risky business, but Earthquake shows how today's advanced technology helps geologists interpret nature's rumblings.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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"People have weeks of warning prior to volcanic eruptions, days of warning before a blizzard, and hours of warning before tornadoes. But there is still no warning system at all for earthquakes, though they have killed millions, and millions more live in constant danger from them. In The Million Death Quake, British Geological Survey seismologist Roger Musson takes us on a riveting journey through earthquakes. After making plain the science behind...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"An epoch-changing work on scientific developments which can save countless lives. Each year the world faces thousands of earthquakes of magnitude 5.0 or greater, resulting in devastating property destruction and tragic loss of life. To help avert these catastrophes, scientists have long searched for ways to predict when and where earthquakes will happen. The earth science establishment in the US says that earthquake prediction still lies outside...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"2010 quake that took a devastating toll on the island nation of Haiti or a future great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in California, which scientists know is inevitable. Yet despite rapid advances in earthquake science, seismologists still can’t predict when the Big One will hit. Predicting the Unpredictable explains why, exploring the fact and fiction behind the science—and pseudoscience—of earthquake prediction. Susan Hough traces the...
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Teacher Created Materials
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[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Earthquakes can leave people and property in bad shape. At times, they can be deadly! Find out about the science of studying earthquakes and the men and women who track the movements of the ground below us."--
14) Megaquake 10.0
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A & E Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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"A 9.0 quake happens once every 20 years, like the one that struck Japan in March. An earthquake of 10.0 has never been recorded in history and it is said to occur once every 2500 years, capable of destroying entire civilizations. We'll see what would unfold if a 10.0 Megaquake struck different fault lines in the U.S., underwater and around the world"--History Channel website.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"This book is an update to a title published in 2007. Mount St. Helens is constantly erupting. It is pushing up a ridge of thick lava that is rebuilding the peak of the mountain that was blown off in 1980. The mountain is being monitored by geologists andvolcanologists, all trying to answer the same question: Will it blow? Science is like detective work, and author Elizabeth Rusch presents the work of volcanology in a series of cases that need to...
20) Earthquakes
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Britannica Educational Publishing, in association with Rosen Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"A book for young readers about earthquakes"--