Disaster Deferred: A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone
- ISBN-10
- 023115139X
- ISBN-13
- 9780231151399
- Category
- Earthquake hazard analysis
- Pages
- 298
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Author
- Seth Stein
Description
Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12, 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.
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