Superquake! : Why Earthquakes Occur and When the Big One Will Hit Southern California
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- Synopsis
- It's coming, sometime within your lifetime, as inexorably as approaching thunder--the biggest earthquake to hit the West Coast since San Francisco was demolished in 1906. This time the target most likely will be southern California and the sprawling, populous city of Los Angeles. And this time the devastation will be greater than ever before, because in the eighty-odd years since the last great quake we have become so much more dependent on our technology. It won't be just toppled buildings and broken roads this time, but the complete disruption of transportation and communication systems, the breakdown of medical services, the destruction of water resources, widespread spilling of toxic chemicals and volatile fuels, and the leakage of radioactive materials. Angelenos can forget about the bomb; they are building their future in the shadow of an equally destructive and much more inevitable catastrophe. Science writer David Ritchie takes a hard look at the evidence predicting a devastating earthquake for southern California sometime within the next fifty years. What causes earthquakes, and how can earth scientists be so certain that a major earthquake is coming? Ritchie surveys the history of California quakes and shows that, while individual generations of Californians may escape catastrophe, on a geologic time scale the West Coast is highly unstable and ripe for disaster.
- Copyright:
- 1988
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 185 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780517566992
- Publisher:
- Crown Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 09/29/17
- Copyrighted By:
- David Ritchie
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Science, Earth Sciences
- Submitted By:
- Deborah Murray
- Proofread By:
- Vanh Vue
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.