Earthshaking Science
Subtitle: What We Know (and Don't Know) about Earthquakes
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 22, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780691118192
Subjects: Popular science; Vulcanology & seismology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Earth Sciences - Seismology & Volcanism; Earthquakes & Volcanoes; Earth Sciences; Science / Earth Sciences / Seismology & Volcanism; Earth Sciences - Geology; Earthquakes
First sentence: Our fascination with earthquakes likely dates back to the dawn of human awareness, but efforts to understand them were doomed to failure prior to the 1960s.