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"Yeats sheds new light on other earthquake hot-spots around the world and the communities at risk, including Caracas, Kabul, Tehran, and Jerusalem. He examines these seismic threats in the context of recent cultural history, including economic development, national politics, and international conflicts, and draws comparisons between the capacity of first-world and developing-world coutnries to prepare for the inevitable"--Dust jacket
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"Providing the first worldwide survey of active earthquake faults, this book focuses on those described as 'seismic time bombs' - with the potential to destroy large cities in the developing world such as Port au Prince, Kabul, Tehran and Caracas. Leading international earthquake expert, Robert Yeats, explores both the regional and plate-tectonic context of active faults, providing the background for seismic hazard evaluation in planning large-scale...
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"Over the past century California has moved from denying the hazards posed by earthquakes - they were bad for business - to adopting building codes and protective legislation that are today the most advanced in the world. In this how-to manual for life in earthquake country, Robert Yeats describes California's violent geologic past and recounts the state's revolutionary efforts to grapple with the earthquake threat.
Combining cutting-edge research...
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"It's only in the past ten years that scientists have discovered that the Pacific Northwest is earthquake country. In Living with Earthquakes, Robert Yeats, a leading authority on earthquake geology in California and the Pacific Northwest, describes the threat posed by one of the world's great earthquake faults - the Cascadia Subduction Zone - which runs for hundreds of miles offshore from British Columbia to northern California." "Beginning with...