Earthquake
"This book describes two millennia of major earthquakes and their effects on societies around the world; the ways in which cultures have mythologized earthquakes through religion, the arts and popular culture; and the science of measuring, understanding and trying to predict earthquakes."--Book jacket.
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- Full title :Earthquake / Andrew Robinson.
Summary
"This book describes two millennia of major earthquakes and their effects on societies around the world; the ways in which cultures have mythologized earthquakes through religion, the arts and popular culture; and the science of measuring, understanding and trying to predict earthquakes."--Book jacket.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Reaktion books
- Place of Publication:London, UK
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:208 pages : : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; : 21 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781780230276, 1780230273
- oclc:ocn788269832
- LC Classification:QE534.3
- Dewey Decimal:551.22
Table of Contents
Earth-shattering events -- Lisbon, 1755 : the wrath of God -- Seismology begins -- Tokyo, 1923 : Holocaust -- Measuring earthquakes -- Faults, plates and drifting continents -- California : the enigma of the San Andreas fault -- Prediction of the unpredictable -- Designing against death -- Earthquake timeline.
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