Earthquake Time Bombs

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Assesses the cities and communities at critical risk of devastating earthquakes, and asks what we can do to protect them.

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Full title :Earthquake Time Bombs / Robert Yeats.

Summary

Assesses the cities and communities at critical risk of devastating earthquakes, and asks what we can do to protect them.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

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Description:1 online resource (361 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781316048184, 1316048187, 9781107085244, 1107085241
oclc:on1167390189
LC Classification:QE538.8
Dewey Decimal:551.22

Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgments ; Why this book? ; Part I Earthquakes, deep time, and the population explosion ; Part II Earthquake time bombs ; Part III Summary and recommendations ; References ; Index

1 Plate tectonics and why we have earthquakes 2 An earthquake primer ; 3 Deep time ; 4 When's the next Big One? ; 5 Population explosion and increased earthquake risk to megacities ; Introduction ; Time bombs where the problem is understood, but the response is still inadequate

Other time bombs, including cities that are not well prepared 28 Where do we go from here? ; Introduction ; The paradigm shift to plate tectonics ; Paleomagnetism ; Sea-floor spreading ; Transform faults ; Trenches and subduction zones ; Plate tectonics

Plate tectonics and earthquakes Introduction ; How big is the earthquake, and where is it? ; The earthquake symphony ; Earthquake intensity ; Introduction and frustration ; Earthquake prediction ; The problem with earthquake swarms ; Probabilistic forecasting

Operational earthquake forecasting Deterministic forecasting ; Resilience survey ; Earthquake mitigation: where's the sweet spot? ; Introd…