Quakeland : : on the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
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Earthquakes. You need to worry about them only if you're in San Francisco, right? Wrong. We have been making enormous changes to subterranean America, and Mother Earth, as always, has been making some of her own. . . . The consequences for our real estate, our civil engineering, and our communities will be huge because they will include earthquakes most of us do not expect and cannot imagine - at least not without reading Quakeland. Kathryn Miles descends into mines in the Northwest, visits the South to see what the Army Corps of Engineers in Memphis is learning about the next major US quake, uncovers the horrific risks of an earthquake in the Northeast, and interviews the people around the country who are addressing this ground shaking threat.
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Enjoyable submitted by crp on August 10, 2019, 7:14am This book is enjoyable esp if you consider how people live in SF in complete denial....
PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Dutton, [2017]
Year Published: 2017
Description: viii, 357 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780525955184
0525955186
SUBJECTS
Earthquake prediction.