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Book Synopsis Damages & Losses from Future New Madrid Earthquakes by : David Stewart
Download or read book Damages & Losses from Future New Madrid Earthquakes written by David Stewart and published by Care Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Damages and Losses from Future New Madrid Earthquakes written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enables anyone to make quantitaive, detailed, and reliable estimates upon which to base pre-earthquake planning and mitigation
Book Synopsis Damages & Losses from Future New Madrid Earthquakes by : David Stewart
Download or read book Damages & Losses from Future New Madrid Earthquakes written by David Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes by : Conevery Bolton Valencius
Download or read book The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes written by Conevery Bolton Valencius and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent’s mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the time the nation began to recover from the Civil War, the New Madrid earthquakes had been essentially forgotten. In The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, Conevery Bolton Valencius remembers this major environmental disaster, demonstrating how events that have been long forgotten, even denied and ridiculed as tall tales, were in fact enormously important at the time of their occurrence, and continue to affect us today. Valencius weaves together scientific and historical evidence to demonstrate the vast role the New Madrid earthquakes played in the United States in the early nineteenth century, shaping the settlement patterns of early western Cherokees and other Indians, heightening the credibility of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa for their Indian League in the War of 1812, giving force to frontier religious revival, and spreading scientific inquiry. Moving into the present, Valencius explores the intertwined reasons—environmental, scientific, social, and economic—why something as consequential as major earthquakes can be lost from public knowledge, offering a cautionary tale in a world struggling to respond to global climate change amid widespread willful denial. Engagingly written and ambitiously researched—both in the scientific literature and the writings of the time—The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes will be an important resource in environmental history, geology, and seismology, as well as history of science and medicine and early American and Native American history.
Book Synopsis Earthquake Risk And Damage Functions by : Ben-Chieh Liu
Download or read book Earthquake Risk And Damage Functions written by Ben-Chieh Liu and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1981-06-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Next New Madrid Earthquake by : William Atkinson
Download or read book The Next New Madrid Earthquake written by William Atkinson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists who specialize in the study of Mississippi Valley earthquakes say that the region is overdue for a powerful tremor that will cause major damage and undoubtedly some casualties. The inevitability of a future quake and the lack of preparation by both individuals and communities provided the impetus for this book. Atkinson brings together applicable information from many disciplines: history, geology and seismology, engineering, zoology, politics and community planning, economics, environmental science, sociology, and psychology and mental health to provide the most comprehensive perspective to date of the myriad impacts of a major earthquake on the Mississippi Valley. Atkinson addresses such basic questions as "What, actually, are earthquakes? How do they occur? Where are they likely to occur? Can they be predicted, perhaps even prevented?" He also addresses those steps that individuals can take to improve their chances for survival both during and after an earthquake.
Book Synopsis Assessing the Felt Reports of the 1811-12 New Madrid Earthquakes in the Central United States by : Ronald L. Street
Download or read book Assessing the Felt Reports of the 1811-12 New Madrid Earthquakes in the Central United States written by Ronald L. Street and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The damage and felt reports describing the New Madrid, Mo., earthquakes of 1811-12 need to be assessed in the historical context in which the events occurred. Log cabins in the frontier settlements along the lower Ohio River Valley, for example, were built with a rudimentary form of base isolation, and their response to the earthquakes should not be evaluated in the same way that a modern wood-frame or brick building would be. Also, inaccuracies have crept into the databases used for estimating the epicenters and magnitudes of the earthquakes. For example, the magnitude of the December 16, 1811, earthquake has been based, in part, on the lack of damage to buildings built well after the occurrence of the 1811-12 events, and the locations and circumstances of some of the people who described their observations of earthquakes and aftershocks in December 1811 while traveling down the Mississippi River on flatboats have been incorrectly used to estimate modified Mercalli intensities. This study indicates that the damage areas for the 1811-12 earthquakes have been underestimated, and favors an epicenter for the January 23, 1812, earthquake in the northern end of the New Madrid Fault Zone, and that the three aftershocks that some have suggested were triggered events centered in northeastern Kentucky or south-central Ohio were in fact centered in the New Madrid Seismic Zone.
Book Synopsis Types of Damage that Could Result from a Great Earthquake in the New Madrid, Missouri, Seismic Zone by : Margaret G. Hopper
Download or read book Types of Damage that Could Result from a Great Earthquake in the New Madrid, Missouri, Seismic Zone written by Margaret G. Hopper and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Publications of the Geological Survey by : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Download or read book Publications of the Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studies in Seismicity and Earthquake Damage Statistics, 1969 by : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Download or read book Studies in Seismicity and Earthquake Damage Statistics, 1969 written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New Madrid Fault Finders Guide by : Ray Knox
Download or read book The New Madrid Fault Finders Guide written by Ray Knox and published by Care Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tecumseh's Prophecy by : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Download or read book Tecumseh's Prophecy written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plan for an intensified study of the New Madrid Seismic Zone.
Book Synopsis When the Mississippi Ran Backwards by : Jay Feldman
Download or read book When the Mississippi Ran Backwards written by Jay Feldman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America united the Indians in one last desperate rebellion, reversed the Mississippi River, revealed a seamy murder in the Jefferson family, and altered the course of the War of 1812. On December 15, 1811, two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews murdered a slave in cold blood and put his body parts into a roaring fire. The evidence would have been destroyed but for a rare act of God—or, as some believed, of the Indian chief Tecumseh. That same day, the Mississippi River's first steamboat, piloted by Nicholas Roosevelt, powered itself toward New Orleans on its maiden voyage. The sky grew hazy and red, and jolts of electricity flashed in the air. A prophecy by Tecumseh was about to be fulfilled. He had warned reluctant warrior-tribes that he would stamp his feet and bring down their houses. Sure enough, between December 16, 1811, and late April 1812, a catastrophic series of earthquakes shook the Mississippi River Valley. Of the more than 2,000 tremors that rumbled across the land during this time, three would have measured nearly or greater than 8.0 on the not-yet-devised Richter Scale. Centered in what is now the bootheel region of Missouri, the New Madrid earthquakes were felt as far away as Canada; New York; New Orleans; Washington, DC; and the western part of the Missouri River. A million and a half square miles were affected as the earth's surface remained in a state of constant motion for nearly four months. Towns were destroyed, an eighteen-mile-long by five-mile-wide lake was created, and even the Mississippi River temporarily ran backwards. The quakes uncovered Jefferson's nephews' cruelty and changed the course of the War of 1812 as well as the future of the new republic. In When the Mississippi Ran Backwards, Jay Feldman expertly weaves together the story of the slave murder, the steamboat, Tecumseh, and the war, and brings a forgotten period back to vivid life. Tecumseh's widely believed prophecy, seemingly fulfilled, hastened an unprecedented alliance among southern and northern tribes, who joined the British in a disastrous fight against the U.S. government. By the end of the war, the continental United States was secure against Britain, France, and Spain; the Indians had lost many lives and much land; and Jefferson's nephews were exposed as murderers. The steamboat, which survived the earthquake, was sunk. When the Mississippi Ran Backwards sheds light on this now-obscure yet pivotal period between the Revolutionary and Civil wars, uncovering the era's dramatic geophysical, political, and military upheavals. Feldman paints a vivid picture of how these powerful earthquakes made an impact on every aspect of frontier life—and why similar catastrophic quakes are guaranteed to recur. When the Mississippi Ran Backwards is popular history at its best.
Book Synopsis Strategy for National Earthquake Loss Reduction by :
Download or read book Strategy for National Earthquake Loss Reduction written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1100 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Earthquake Hazard Mitigation and Earthquake Insurance by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance
Download or read book Earthquake Hazard Mitigation and Earthquake Insurance written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :260 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Earthquake Insurance and Hazard Mitigation by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
Download or read book Earthquake Insurance and Hazard Mitigation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reducing earthquake losses written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquakes have caused massive death and destruction, and potentially damaging earthquakes are certain to occur in the future. Although earthquakes are uncontrollable, the losses they cause can be reduced by building structures that resist earthquake damage, matching land use to risk, developing emergency response plans, and other means. Since 1977, the federal government has had a research oriented program to reduce earthquake losses the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). This program has made significant contributions toward improving our understanding of earthquakes and strategies to reduce their impact. Implementing action based on this understanding, however, has been quite difficult. This chapter provides an introduction to earthquakes: a sum mary of the earthquake hazard across the United States, a review of the types of losses earthquakes cause, a discussion of why earthquakes are a congressional concern, and an introduction to mitigation actions taken prior to earthquakes that can reduce losses when they occur. The federal policy response to date, NEHRP is then described and reviewed. Finally, specific policy options for improving federal efforts to reduce future earthquake losses are presented.