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100 1 $aRobinson, Andrew,$d1957-
245 10 $aEarthquake :$bnature and culture /$cAndrew Robinson.
260 $aLondon, UK :$bReaktion Books,$c2012.
300 $a208 p. :$bill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;$c22 cm.
490 1 $aEarth series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-200) and index.
505 0 $aEarth-shattering events -- Lisbon, 1755: the wrath of God -- Seismology begins -- Tokyo, 1923: Holocaust -- Measuring earthquakes -- Faults, plates and drifting continents -- Caifornia: the enigma of the San Andreas fault -- Prediction of the unpredictable -- Designing against death.
520 $aLos Angeles and Tokyo, Instanbul and Beijing, Lima and Cairo are among the more than 60 large cities at definite risk from an earthquake. Although European cities seem less vulnerable, devastating earthquakes have hit Athens, Bucharest, Lisbon, Madrid, Rome and Naples, among others, over the past three centures. Even London experienced a shock in 1884 that stopped MPs in the Houses of Parliament in their tracks.
520 $aThis 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. According to Charles Darwin, a great earthquake in Chile in 1835 was the single most interesting event of his entire five-year journey around the globe on HMS Beagle.
520 $aDespite advances in both science and engineering, and improved disaster preparedness, earthquakes continue to cause immese loss of life and damage. The Haiti earthquake of 2010 took some quarter of a million lives. No one will ever forget the catastrophic tsunami unleashed in 2011 by a magnitude-9 earthquake off the east coast of Japan - a crisis described by Japans' prime minsiter as the most disastrous national event since the atomic bomb strikes in 1945. Tokyo was largely unaffected in 2011, unlike in 1703, 1855 and 1923 when earthquakes ravaged the capital. How long will it be before the next big Tokyo earthquake? Written by a highly experienced science writer, journalist and scholar, Earthquake will appeal as much to general readers of popular science as it will to experts in many fields -- P. [2] of cover.
650 0 $aEarthquakes.
650 0 $aEarthquakes in art.
650 0 $aEarthquakes$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aEarthquakes$xMythology.
830 0 $aEarth series (Reaktion Books (Firm))
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