Represented In this book are the some of the greatest practitioners of science from a wide range of scientific disciplines. Each entry gives a biographical background of its subject and a description of the main themes of their work, together with concise expositions of some the…
Cover; Contents; What Is an Earthquake?; Patchwork of Plates; Moving Lands; Where Earthquakes Happen; How Earthquakes Happen; Seaquakes; Looking Out for Quakes; On the Ground; Human Catastrophe; After the Quake; Helping Out; Rebuilding; Where Next?; TEN OF THE DEADLIEST EARTHQUA…
