Magnitude 8 - Earthquakes and Life Along the San Andreas Fault

Informationen zum Autor Philip L. Fradkin is the author of six acclaimed books on the American West! including The Seven States of California (California! 1997) and A River No More (California! 1996). He shared a Pulitzer Prize as a journalist! served as assistant secretary in the state agency responsible for overseeing seismic matters! and for the last twenty years has lived adjacent to the San Andreas Fault in California's Marin County. Klappentext "This superb cautionary tale should be required reading for every Californian. (And smug New Yorkers will be shocked by Fradkin's surprising account of their own seismic vulnerability.)"-Mike Davis! author of City of Quartz Zusammenfassung Environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin offers a history of earthquakes and a guide to the San Andreas Fault, the seismic scar that bisects the Golden State's spectacular scenery. He examines the mythology, culture, social implications, politics and science of earthquakes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1 San Francisco (the Present) 2 Terra Non Firma 3 The Old and New Worlds (1580-1812) 4 Fort Tejon (1857) 5 Hayward (1868) 6 San Francisco (1906) 7 Parkfield (1966) 8 Lorna Prieta (1989) 9 Northridge (1994) Appendix Acknowledgments Suggested Reading Source Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Philip L. Fradkin, Fradkin Philip L.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.10.1999
• EAN: 9780520221192
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22119-2
• No. of pages: 348
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; NATURE / General, California, HISTORY / Historical Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, The Earth: Natural History General, The Earth: natural history: general interest, Historical Geography