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Earthquake prediction -- United States.
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Miles, Kathryn, 1974-
Earthquake prediction -- United States.
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Quakeland
: on the
road
to
America
's
next
devastating
earthquake
/ Kathryn Miles
by
Miles, Kathryn, 1974-
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2017.
Call #:
551.220973 M643q
Subjects
Earthquake
prediction -- United States.
ISBN:
9780525955184 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Quake land : on the
road
to
America
's
next
devastating
earthquake
Description:
viii, 357 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-350) and index
Contents:
Land made for you and me. Their campsite, our core ; A beautiful place for an
earthquake
; Coffee in Salt Lake ; Our floating world ; Cold storage -- A wealth of water and rock. Dam busting with Sensurround G-forces! ; The Big Muddy ; Thank God for FedEx ; The Lucky Friday mine ; Digging back East ; Our ingenious wells ; The
earthquake
fighters of Oklahoma ; Tank farms on the prairie ; Cool stuff to store in mines -- The voice of rage and ruin. Blocks and blocks ; Gimme shelter ; The school ; Predicting the unpredictable ; Is the sky falling? ; Your two-minute warning
Summary:
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. 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. Kathryn Miles is a journalist and writer-in-residence at Green Mountain College.
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