Cascadia's fault
Subtitle: the earthquake and tsunami that could devastate North America
By: Jerry Thompson ; with an introduction by Simon Winchester.
Publisher: Counterpoint Press; Counterpoint; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781582436432
Subjects: Natural disasters; Earthquake prediction; Tsunamis; Forecasting; Earthquakes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Tremors and ripples; title: Mexico City : preview of coming events; title: Lessons from the rubble : a front-page story; title: The Alaska megathrust : Cascadia's northern cousin; title: Against the wind of convention : Plafker, Benioff, and Press; title: Cauldron and crust : the rehabilitation of continental drift; title: Nuke on a fault : early clues in Humboldt Bay; title: Proving the doubters wrong : the Chile connection; title: Mount St. Helens : Cascadia's smoking gun?; title: pt. 2. Setbacks and breakthroughs; title: Mud cores and lasers : the search for evidence; title: The whoops factor : Cascadia's true nature revealed; title: Quake hunters : finding Cascadia's ghost forest; title: Cedars, peat, and turbidites : a tipping point at Monmouth; title: Cascadia's segmented past : apocalypse or decades of terror?; title: Digital water : catching waves in a computer; title: Defining the zone : hot rocks and high water; title: Cracks, missing rings, and native voices : closing in on a killer quake; title: The orphan tsunami : final proof of Cascadia's last rupture; title: Episodic tremor and slip : tracking Cascadia with GPS; title: Turbidite timeline : Cascadia's long and violent history; title: When's this going to happen? : the problems with prediction; title: p. 3. Shockwaves; title: Facing reality : Cascadia equals Sumatra; title: The next wave : thinking the unthinkable; title: Watching it happen, wishing it wouldn't; title: Cascadia's fault : day of reckoning; title: Epilogue: Survival and resilience, a state of mind.