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Earthquake: Nature and Culture

Andrew Robinson

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Description:The 2011 devastating, tsunami-triggering quake off the coast of Japan and 2010OCOs horrifying destruction in Haiti reinforce the fact that large cities in every continent are at risk from earthquakes. Quakes threaten Los Angeles, Beijing, Cairo, Delhi, Singapore, and many more cities, and despite advances in earthquake science and engineering and improved disaster preparedness by governments and international aid agencies, they continue to cause immense loss of life and property damage.a"Earthquake" explores the occurrence of major earthquakes around the world, their effects on the societies where they strike, and the other catastrophes they cause, from landslides and fires to floods and tsunamis. Examining the science involved in measuring and explaining earthquakes, Andrew Robinson looks at our attempts to design against their consequences and the possibility of having the ability to predict them one day. Robinson also delves into the ways nations have mythologized earthquakes through religion and the artsOCoNorse mythology explained earthquakes as the violent struggling of the god Loki as he was punished for murdering another god, the ancient Greeks believed Poseidon caused earthquakes whenever he was in a bad mood or wanted to punish people, and Japanese mythology states that Namazu, a giant catfish, triggers quakes when he thrashes around. He discusses the portrayal of earthquakes in popular culture, where authors and filmmakers often use the memory of cities laid to wasteOCosuch as Kobe, Japan, in 1995 or San Francisco in 1906OCoor imagine the hypothetical OC Big One, OCO the earthquake expected someday out of CaliforniaOCOs San Andreas Fault.aWith tremors happening in seemingly implausible places like Chicago and Washington DC, "Earthquake" is a timely book that will enrich earthquake scholarship and enlighten anyone interested in these ruinous natural disasters.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Earthquake: Nature and Culture. To get started finding Earthquake: Nature and Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 210

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2014

ISBN: 1780230613

Description: The 2011 devastating, tsunami-triggering quake off the coast of Japan and 2010OCOs horrifying destruction in Haiti reinforce the fact that large cities in every continent are at risk from earthquakes. Quakes threaten Los Angeles, Beijing, Cairo, Delhi, Singapore, and many more cities, and despite advances in earthquake science and engineering and improved disaster preparedness by governments and international aid agencies, they continue to cause immense loss of life and property damage.a"Earthquake" explores the occurrence of major earthquakes around the world, their effects on the societies where they strike, and the other catastrophes they cause, from landslides and fires to floods and tsunamis. Examining the science involved in measuring and explaining earthquakes, Andrew Robinson looks at our attempts to design against their consequences and the possibility of having the ability to predict them one day. Robinson also delves into the ways nations have mythologized earthquakes through religion and the artsOCoNorse mythology explained earthquakes as the violent struggling of the god Loki as he was punished for murdering another god, the ancient Greeks believed Poseidon caused earthquakes whenever he was in a bad mood or wanted to punish people, and Japanese mythology states that Namazu, a giant catfish, triggers quakes when he thrashes around. He discusses the portrayal of earthquakes in popular culture, where authors and filmmakers often use the memory of cities laid to wasteOCosuch as Kobe, Japan, in 1995 or San Francisco in 1906OCoor imagine the hypothetical OC Big One, OCO the earthquake expected someday out of CaliforniaOCOs San Andreas Fault.aWith tremors happening in seemingly implausible places like Chicago and Washington DC, "Earthquake" is a timely book that will enrich earthquake scholarship and enlighten anyone interested in these ruinous natural disasters.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Earthquake: Nature and Culture. To get started finding Earthquake: Nature and Culture, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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