TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yeats,Robert S.
TI  - Earthquake time bombs
SN  - 9781107085244 (hbk.)
AV  - QE538.8 .Y43 2015
U1  - 551.22 YEA 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press, 
KW  - Earthquake prediction
KW  - Earthquakes
KW  - Seismology
N1  - Machine generated contents note: pt. I EARTHQUAKES, DEEP TIME, AND THE POPULATION EXPLOSION
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
pt. II EARTHQUAKE TIME BOMBS
Time Bombs Where The Problem Is Understood, But The Response Is Still Inadequate
6.San Francisco Bay Area
7.Los Angeles
8.Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver: Cascadia subduction zone
9.Japan: Tokyo and the Kansai
10.Wellington, New Zealand
11.Santiago, Chile
12.Prologue in central China
Other Time Bombs, Including Cities That Are Not Well Prepared
13.Age of Enlightenment and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake
14.Jerusalem: earthquakes in the Holy Land
15.Istanbul: responding to an official earthquake warning
16.Tehran: the next earthquake in the Islamic Republic of Iran?
17.Kabul: decades of war and Babur's warning
Contents note continued: 18.Earthquakes in the Himalaya
19.Myanmar and the Sagaing fault
20.Metro Manila, the Philippines
21.Lima, Peru: Inca earthquake-resistant construction and a bogus American earthquake prediction
22.Andean earthquakes in Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador
23.Caracas: lots of oil, but little interest in earthquakes
24.Haiti, which lost its gamble, and Jamaica and Cuba (not yet)
25.Mexico City: bowl of jello inherited from the Aztecs
26.Central America and the earthquake that brought down a dictator
27.East African Rift Valley: a tale of two cities
pt. III SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
28.Where do we go from here?
N2  - "This book highlights the appalling reality of the threat to the world's growing population that is exposed to earthquakes, especially those concentrated in vulnerable megacities. The recent calamities of the earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal are simply foretastes of what is to come, unless decisive action is taken. It is written by someone perhaps uniquely qualified to do so: an earthquake scientist whose long and personal engagement with many of the cities he writes about is accompanied by an extremely well informed, up-to-date and widely respected grasp of his subject. It is written in an easy semi-populist, non-technical style that will make it accessible to non-specialists, but with the completely convincing authority and balance that accompanies an author who is utterly confident and secure in his knowledge. It is an impressive achievement to distil decades of global scientific effort into a compelling narrative and call to action"--Book cover
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