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Books on: earthquakes

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Earthquake Insurance: A Longitudinal Study of California Homeowners

Book by Risa Palm; Westview Press, 1995

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Insurance, Earthquake--California--Longitudinal Studies

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...we call an earthquake ti chen...tradition, earthquakes were believed...In Europe, earthquakes were viewed...1755 Lisbon earthquake was believed...interplate earthquakes such as the 1811 New Madrid earthquake arise from...
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Illusions of Safety: Culture and Earthquake Hazard Response in California and Japan

Book by Risa Palm, John Carroll; Westview Press, 1998

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Disaster Relief--California--Planning--Public Opinion, Disaster Relief--Japan--Planning--Public Opinion, Earthquake Hazard Analysis--California, Earthquake Hazard Analysis--Japan, Earthquakes--Califiornia--Safety Measures--Public Opinion, Earthquakes--California--Public Opinion, Earthquakes--Japan--Public Opinion, Earthquakes--Japan--Safety Measures--Public Opinion

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...associated with earthquakes has vastly increased...the 1988 Armenia earthquake and the 1989 Loma...1923 and the Kobe earthquake of 1995. In the...States, three earthquakes are described: the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 causing...
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Earthquake Risk Reduction

Book by David J. Dowrick; Wiley, 2003

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Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Resistant Design

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...Accelerograms of simulated earthquakes Many earthquake engineering research...generating artificial earthquakes. Software for the generation of simulated earthquakes such as PSEQGN are...Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE...
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Predicting the Unpredictable: The Tumultuous Science of Earthquake Prediction

Book by Susan Hough; Princeton University Press, 2009

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Earthquake Prediction

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...when you get a lot of earthquakes, you get a lot of earthquakes. Recently developed theories of earthquake interactions, focusing...cant predict any one earthquake, but, standing back to look at earthquakes as a system, we can...
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The Lisbon Earthquake

Book by T. D. Kendrick; J. B. Lippincott, 1957

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Lisbon (Portugal)--Earthquake, 1755

Collections: History, Entire Library

...for our sins. Only when earthquakes are concerned do we slip...to get used to thinking of earthquakes as we think of storms, and...occurrences. God may use an earthquake to punish mankind. That...admitted. But the majority of earthquakes cannot possibly have a moral...

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Journal Articles on: earthquakes

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Stochastic Declustering of Space-Time Earthquake Occurrences

Journal article by Jiancang Zhuang, Yosihiko Ogata, David Vere-Jones; Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 97, 2002

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Earth movements (Geology)--Research, Earth movements--Research, Earthquake prediction--Research, Geology

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...prediction of large earthquakes with clusters...aftershocks. The earthquake clusters complicate...history of the earthquakes up to time...available earthquake records including...two great earthquakes, the 1944 Tonankai earthquake of M.sub...
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Vulnerability of Wastewater Treatment Plants and Wastewater Pumping Stations to Earthquakes

Journal article by Mohammad Reza Zare, Suzanne Wilkinson, Regan Potangaroa; International Journal of Strategic Property Management, Vol. 14, 2010

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Contingency planning, Earthquakes, Impact analysis, New Zealand, Studies, Water treatment plants

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...WWTP s in the earthquake prone areas are...withstand particular earthquakes hence each part...expected to withstand earthquakes. According to the earthquake effects in wastewater...displacement caused by earthquakes. In earthquake prone areas usually...
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Multidimensional Residual Analysis of Point Process Models for Earthquake Occurrences

Journal article by Frederic Paik Schoenberg; Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 98, 2003

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Earthquake engineering--Research, Earthquake engineering--Statistics, Statistics (Data)--Methods, Statistics--Methods

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...PROCESS MODELS FOR EARTHQUAKES Catalogs of earthquake occurrences are conveniently...describes how the rate of earthquakes increases after an earthquake, and how this increase...Forecasting Earthquakes and Earthquake Risk," International...
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Threaten Many American Schools: Millions of American Schoolchildren in Earthquake-Prone Areas Go to Schools That Are Unsafe in Earthquakes. So Why Are So Few People Doing Anything about It?

Journal article by Nancy E. Bailey; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 91, 2010

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Earthquakes--China, Earthquakes--Educational aspects, Emergency management, Emergency preparedness, School buildings--Environmental aspects, School buildings--Standards, School safety--Environmental aspects

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...some risk for earthquakes (www.fema.gov/hazard/earthquake/risk.shtm...experience frequent earthquakes, dont believe that an earthquake cant occur. Faults...buildings for earthquakes. The word "earthquake" isnt even mentioned...
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The Cenozoic Uplift and Earthquake Belt of Mainland Britain as a Response to an Underlying Hot, Low-density Upper Mantle

Journal article by Martin H. P Bott, Jacqueline D. J Bott; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 161, 2004

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Earthquakes, Exhumation, Models, Plate tectonics, Seismology, Soil erosion, United Kingdom

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...separate line of earthquakes along the North...rift zone. The earthquake belt can be considered...can compare the earthquake mechanisms with...its uplift. Earthquake mechanisms are...Bulletins of British Earthquakes, as listed by...

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Magazine Articles on: earthquakes

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Preparing for an Earthquake: Information for Schools and Families

Magazine article by Melissa Allen Heath, Brenda Dean; National Association of School Psychologists. Communique, Vol. 37, November 2008

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Building codes, Deaths, Earthquake damage, Earthquakes, Medical supplies, Outdoor activities, School boards, School districts, Seismic engineering, Students

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...Survey (USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, n.d.), earthquakes occur in the...death traps. EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE TO SCHOOLS Because major earthquakes occur more frequently...the history of earthquakes, general earthquake facts, photos...
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Midwestern Earthquakes? --Blame Old Glaciers

Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 129, June 2001

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Earthquakes--Causes of, Glaciers--Influence, Midwestern States--Natural history, Zoback, Mark--Research

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...theory explains earthquakes that occur in the...usual zones of high earthquake activity along...explaining similar earthquakes along faults in...Jan. 26, 2001, earthquake in Gujarat, India...by 50% in the earthquake zone, compared...cause of Midwestern earthquakes has long perplexed...
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The Search for Answers: The Earthquake That Struck Japan at 2.46pm on 11 March Was the Worst in the Country's History, Triggering a Devastating Tsunami and an Ongoing Nuclear Crisis. Mark Rowe Uncovers the Reasons Why the Quake Was So Destructive and Looks at the Lessons Being Learned by Scientists Studying the First Earthquake of Such Strength to Hit a Fully Developed Nation in Recorded History

Magazine article by Mark Rowe; Geographical, Vol. 83, May 2011

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Earthquakes--Japan, Earthquakes--Research, Electric power plants--Research, Electric power-plants--Research, Natural disaster damage--Research, Nuclear energy--Research, Power plants--Research, Scientists--Research, Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami, 2011--Research

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...we rarely see earthquakes of such magnitude...he says. The earthquake was similar...followed by other earthquakes; in September 2009, an earthquake in Samoa was...later by an earthquake in Padang. Those two earthquakes were so far...
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Can Jim Berkland Predict Earthquakes? Jim Berkland Claims to Be Able to Predict Earthquakes. Such Earth-Shaking Claims, However, Appear to Be Groundless

Magazine article by Roger Hunter; Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 30, September 2006

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Berkland, Jim--Evaluation, Berkland, Jim--Services, Earthquake prediction--Analysis

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...Able to Predict Earthquakes. Such Earth...who has issued earthquake predictions since...looking at a list of earthquakes in Greenwich Mean...Jim Berklands earthquake prediction chart...at: http://earthquake.usgs.gov...Man Who Predicts Earthquakes. Boulder, Colorado...
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Earthquake: the Risk of Disaster

Magazine article; Risk Management, Vol. 42, April 1995

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California, Earthquakes, Risk management, United States

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Earthquake: the Risk of Disaster The risk of earthquakes is a fact of life for millions...experienced hundreds of small earthquakes since the Great Earthquake of 1906 devastated the city. Earthquakes strong enough to cause structural...

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Newspaper Articles on: earthquakes

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Phivolcs Director Dr. Renato U. Solidum, Jr.: Ain't No Earthquake Strong Enough

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, April 9, 2011

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Earthquakes--Japan, Earthquakes--Philippines, Seismology, Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami, 2011, Tsunamis--Japan, Tsunamis--Philippines, Volcanology

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...science of earthquakes, volcanoes...debunks some earthquake myths, and...know when the earthquakes will occur...the Rapid Earthquake Damage Assessment...provide info on earthquakes, we also provide info on earthquake hazards...
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Heartland Haiti; Prepare for Earthquakes before They Strike

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), February 11, 2010

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Earthquakes, Seismology

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...reason February is Earthquake Awareness Month...Californias famous earthquakes - the San Francisco earthquake in 1906 that destroyed...and Memphis. The earthquakes were equal in force to the San Francisco earthquake but affected an...
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Earthquakes Could Be Texas-Bound Next Year

Newspaper article by Kent Mcdill; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 24, 2004

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San Jose Earthquakes

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Earthquakes Could Be Texas-Bound Next Year. by...maybe), there is talk the San Jose Earthquakes, formerly the Clash, are going to...right to support the defending champion Earthquakes. Officials of the Anschutz Entertainment...
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'Fracking' Waste Disposal Tied to Ohio Earthquakes

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), January 4, 2012

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Earthquakes--Ohio, Refuse and refuse disposal, Seismology, Waste management

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the ground to trigger an earthquake. .. Thats really not something...senior science adviser for earthquake and geologic hazards with...when compared with the 5.8 earthquake that shook the East Coast...as powerful as the 7.0 earthquakes that often cause catastrophic...
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Wells Linked to Earthquakes

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, April 22, 2011

Subjects:

Chesapeake Energy Corp., Earthquakes--Arkansas, Earthquakes--United States, Earthquakes--Virginia, Gas industry, Petroleum services industry, Seismology

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Wells Linked to Earthquakes. LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, United...to more than 1,000 unexplained earthquakes in the region, a state commission...well closures."Were still having earthquakes, but thats not unexpected," he...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: earthquakes

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Earthquake

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...from a powerful earthquake can trigger smaller earthquakes in a distant...Damage Caused by Earthquakes The effects of an earthquake are strongest...Fundamentals of Earthquake Prediction...Brumbaugh, Earthquakes: Science and...
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Seismology

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...scientific studies of earthquakes. By analyzing seismic data from a 1909 earthquake near Zagreb (now in...scale to determine an earthquakes magnitude. Each successive...is also based on the earthquakes effects on the surface...through the earth. Past earthquake studies have shown...
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Antigua Guatemala

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...been destroyed by flood and earthquake, Antigua Guatemala became...eruptions, floods, and earthquakes. In 1773 a series of earthquakes leveled the city. The Spanish...plain supposedly free from earthquakes and there founded Guatemala...
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Wave , in the Earth Sciences

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...larger scale, by submarine earthquakes, volcanoes, and landslides...disturbance generated by an earthquake or explosion. In atmospheric...displacements such as landslides and earthquakes can produce high energy waves...earth by the movements of earthquakes or explosions. Depending...
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Parkfield

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...today best known as the "earthquake capital of the world." From 1857 to 1966 six magnitude 6 earthquakes occurred along the San Andreas...near Parkfield. Because the earthquakes occurred at average intervals...hopes of learning more about earthquakes and how to predict them...

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