MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01851cam a2200301 a 4500
001 00010627
003 DLC
005 20050427163214.0
008 000725s2001 mdua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 00010627
020 $a0801865964 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dWaU
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050 00 $aQE535.2.U6$bG485 2001
082 00 $a363.34/95/09794$221
100 1 $aGeschwind, Carl-Henry,$d1965-
245 10 $aCalifornia earthquakes :$bscience, risk, and the politics of hazard mitigation /$cCarl-Henry Geschwind.
260 $aBaltimore :$bJohns Hopkins University Press,$cc2001.
300 $ax, 337 p. :$bmap ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-316) and index.
505 0 $aReactions to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 -- Setting up a scientific infrastructure : seismology California style, 1910-1925 -- Bailey Willis and the promotion of earthquake safety in the mid-1920s -- Engineering a regulatory state apparatus : seismic safety in the 1930s -- Earthquake experts and the Cold War state -- New initiatives for earthquake preparedness, 1964-1971 -- Seismic politics: responses to the San Fernando earthquake -- Pushing prediction: the establishment of the national earthquake hazards reduction -- Program -- The regulatory state apparatus in action.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aEarthquake hazard analysis$zCalifornia$xHistory.
650 0 $aEarthquakes$zCalifornia$xSafety measures$xHistory.
650 0 $aHazard mitigation$zCalifornia.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/jhu051/00010627.html
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/jhu051/00010627.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/jhu051/00010627.html