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9780231151382: Disaster Deferred: How New Science Is Changing Our View of Earthquake Hazards in the Midwest: A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone

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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 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. Detailing how limited scientific knowledge, bureaucratic instincts, and the media's love of a good story have exaggerated these hazards, Stein calmly debunks the hype surrounding such predictions and encourages the formulation of more sensible, less costly policy. Powered by insider knowledge and an engaging style, Disaster Deferred shows how new geological ideas and data, including those from the Global Positioning System, are painting a very different-and much less frightening-picture of the future.

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Seth Stein is Deering Professor of Geological Sciences at Northwestern University. He has received the James B. Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union, the George P. Woollard Award of the Geological Society of America, and the Stephan Mueller Medal of the European Geosciences Union. He has also been elected a foreign member of the Academy of Europe and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and Geological Society of America. He is a coauthor of a widely used seismology textbook, a former editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research, and the founder of Northwestern's Environmental Science program.

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  • EditoreColumbia Univ Pr
  • Data di pubblicazione2010
  • ISBN 10 0231151381
  • ISBN 13 9780231151382
  • RilegaturaCopertina rigida
  • LinguaInglese
  • Numero di pagine282

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9780231151399: Disaster Deferred: How New Science Is Changing Our View of Earthquake Hazards in the Midwest: A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone

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ISBN 10:  023115139X ISBN 13:  9780231151399
Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2012
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