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Cascadia's fault

the earthquake and tsunami that could devastate North America

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An edition of Cascadia's fault (2011)

Cascadia's fault

the earthquake and tsunami that could devastate North America

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337

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Cascadia's fault: the earthquake and tsunami that could devastate North America
2011, Counterpoint Press, Counterpoint, Distributed by Publishers Group West
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Berkeley, CA

Table of Contents

pt. 1. Tremors and ripples
Mexico City : preview of coming events
Lessons from the rubble : a front-page story
The Alaska megathrust : Cascadia's northern cousin
Against the wind of convention : Plafker, Benioff, and Press
Cauldron and crust : the rehabilitation of continental drift
Nuke on a fault : early clues in Humboldt Bay
Proving the doubters wrong : the Chile connection
Mount St. Helens : Cascadia's smoking gun?
pt. 2. Setbacks and breakthroughs
Mud cores and lasers : the search for evidence
The whoops factor : Cascadia's true nature revealed
Quake hunters : finding Cascadia's ghost forest
Cedars, peat, and turbidites : a tipping point at Monmouth
Cascadia's segmented past : apocalypse or decades of terror?
Digital water : catching waves in a computer
Defining the zone : hot rocks and high water
Cracks, missing rings, and native voices : closing in on a killer quake
The orphan tsunami : final proof of Cascadia's last rupture
Episodic tremor and slip : tracking Cascadia with GPS
Turbidite timeline : Cascadia's long and violent history
When's this going to happen? : the problems with prediction
p. 3. Shockwaves
Facing reality : Cascadia equals Sumatra
The next wave : thinking the unthinkable
Watching it happen, wishing it wouldn't
Cascadia's fault : day of reckoning
Epilogue: Survival and resilience, a state of mind.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
551.2209164/32
Library of Congress
QE535.2.N6 T46 2011, QE535.2.N6T46 2011

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Pagination
xxii, 337 p. :
Number of pages
337

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Open Library
OL25077432M
Internet Archive
cascadiasfaultea00thom_0
ISBN 13
9781582436432
LCCN
2011010749
OCLC/WorldCat
670481610
Goodreads
10866111

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