Earthquake time bombs
By: Robert Yeats, Oregon State University
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781107085244
Subjects: Earthquake prediction; Earthquakes; Seismology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Earthquakes, deep time, and the population explosion. 1. Plate tectonics and why we have earthquakes; title: 2. An earthquake primer; title: 3. Deep time; title: 4. When's the next Big One?; title: 5. Population explosion and increased risk to megacities; title: Part II. Earthquake time bombs. 6. San Francisco Bay Area; title: 7. Los Angeles; title: 8. Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver : Cascadia subduction zone; title: 9. Japan : Tokyo and the Kansai; title: 10. Wellington, New Zealand; title: 11. Santiago, Chile; title: 12. Prologue in central China; title: Other time bombs, including cities that are not well prepared.  13. Age of Enlightenment and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake; title: 14. Jerusalem : earthquakes in the Holy Land; title: 15. Istanbul : responding to an official earthquake warning; title: 16. Tehran : the next earthquake in the Islamic Republic of Iran?; title: 17. Kabul : decades of war and Babur's warning; title: 19. Myanmar and the Sagaing fault; title: 20. Metro Manila, the Philippines; title: 21. Lima, Peru : Inca earthquake-resistant construction and a bogus American earthquake prediction; title: 22. Andean earthquakes in Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador; title: 23. Caracas : lots of oil, but little interest in earthquakes; title: 24. Haiti, which lost its gamble, and Jamaica and Cuba (not yet); title: 23. Mexico City : bowl of jello inherited from the Aztecs; title: 26. Central America and the earthquake that brought down a dictator; title: 27. East African Rift Valley : a tale of two cities; title: Part III. Summary and recommendations. 28. Where do we go from here?.