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Author : Thomas Rowlandson
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Total Pages : 106 pages
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Download or read book A Treatise on Earthquake Dangers, Causes and Palliatives written by Thomas Rowlandson and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas ROWLANDSON (F.G.S.)
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Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book A Treatise on Earthquake Dangers; Causes and Palliatives written by Thomas ROWLANDSON (F.G.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Rowlandson
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Total Pages : 96 pages
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Download or read book A Treatise on Earthquake Dangers, Causes and Palliatives written by Thomas Rowlandson and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thos; Rowlandson
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ISBN 13 : 9781332001415
Total Pages : 104 pages
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Download or read book A Treatise on Earthquake Dangers Causes and Palliatives (Classic Reprint) written by Thos; Rowlandson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treatise on Earthquake Dangers Causes and Palliatives The preface now submitted will be chiefly occupied with apologetic explanations for total omissions, and sparseness of details, which, if elaborated at greater length, were calculated to explain many of the mysterious phenomena of earthquakes. It is doubtful, however, whether sufficient interest exists amidst the California public to have mode it probable that even the cost of publication would have been realized had a work of larger pretensions and more expensive charge been submitted to its notice. Even as it is, the writer docs not anticipate realizing more than cost out of pocket of printing the present brochure, unless, as may happen, another earthquake shock sufficiently severe as to cause general alarm should occur within a brief period, and thus again attract fresh interest to the subject. As will be seen on a perusal of the first portions of the body of the work, the illustrations are almost wholly confined to incidents related by Mr. Mallet of the Neapolitan earthquake of 1857. It may be explained that this is attributable to the following circumstances: The last general meeting of the Joint Committee on Earthquake Topics was held on the 11th of March last. At that meeting certain reports were read, and discussions thereon took place. The chief one, however, related to one special topic, viz: the advisability of an early publication of the information obtained by the Committee, such a course being advocated by one party as duo to the public and the credit of the Committee, and another who strongly contended for an indefinite delay - one of the stoutest advocates for such delay advancing the novel plea that, individually, they had not yet learned the science of seismology, and, by inference, the cognate sciences alluded to that branch of physics. A compromise was effected by the adoption of a resolution that the Chairmen of the various sub-committees should forward at a day conveniently early and generally understood, which has now passed, reports on the various branches of this subject, on the receipt of which the Chairman was to assemble, by summons, the members of the Joint Committee. For reasons not yet explained, this has not taken place, awaiting, probably, the time when these amateur architects, chemists, geologists and general scientists, shall have, to their own satisfaction, mastered the alphabets of the particular sciences on which they have undertaken to treat. A portion of the resolution adopted at the same time embraced the dismissal of the Secretary, on the ground of economy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Thomas Rowlandson
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781342207913
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (79 download)
Download or read book A Treatise on Earthquake Dangers, Causes and Palliatives written by Thomas Rowlandson and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Thomas 1756-1827 Rowlandson
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ISBN 13 : 9781363660285
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)
Download or read book TREATISE ON EARTHQUAKE DANGERS written by Thomas 1756-1827 Rowlandson and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thos Rowlandson
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781358870712
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Download or read book A Treatise on Earthquake Dangers Causes and Palliatives written by Thos Rowlandson and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Deborah R. Coen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226111814
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Earthquake Observers written by Deborah R. Coen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This book explains how observing networks transformed an instant of panic and confusion into a field for scientific research, turning earthquakes into natural experiments at the nexus of the physical and human sciences.
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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0444538038
Total Pages : 5604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (445 download)
Download or read book Treatise on Geophysics written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 5604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treatise on Geophysics, Second Edition, is a comprehensive and in-depth study of the physics of the Earth beyond what any geophysics text has provided previously. Thoroughly revised and updated, it provides fundamental and state-of-the-art discussion of all aspects of geophysics. A highlight of the second edition is a new volume on Near Surface Geophysics that discusses the role of geophysics in the exploitation and conservation of natural resources and the assessment of degradation of natural systems by pollution. Additional features include new material in the Planets and Moon, Mantle Dynamics, Core Dynamics, Crustal and Lithosphere Dynamics, Evolution of the Earth, and Geodesy volumes. New material is also presented on the uses of Earth gravity measurements. This title is essential for professionals, researchers, professors, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of Geophysics and Earth system science. Comprehensive and detailed coverage of all aspects of geophysics Fundamental and state-of-the-art discussions of all research topics Integration of topics into a coherent whole
Author : Jennifer Travis
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498563422
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth-century American Literature written by Jennifer Travis and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-Century Americans saw danger lurking everywhere: in railway cars and trolleys, fireplaces and floods, and amid social and political movements, from the abolition of slavery to suffrage. After the Civil War, Americans were shaken by financial panic and a volatile post-slave economy. They were awe-struck and progressively alarmed by technological innovations that promised speed and commercial growth, but also posed unprecedented physical hazard. Most of all, Americans were uncertain, particularly in light of environmental disasters like hurricanes and wildfires, about their own city on a hill and the once indisputable and protective hand of a beneficent God. The disasters, accidents, and social and political upheavals that characterized nineteenth-century culture had enormous explanatory power, metaphoric and real. Today we speak of similar insecurities: financial, informational, environmental, and political, and we obsessively express our worry and fear for the future. Cultural theorist Paul Virilio refers to these feelings as the “threat horizon,” one that endlessly identifies and produces new dangers.Why, he asks, does it seem easier for humanity to imagine a future shaped by ever-deadlier accidents than a decent future? Danger and Vulnerability in Nineteenth Century American Literature; or, Crash and Burn American invites readers to examine the “threat horizon” through its nascent expression in literary and cultural history. Against the emerging rhetoric of danger in the long nineteenth century, this book examines how a vocabulary of vulnerability in the American imaginary promoted the causes of the structurally disempowered in new and surprising ways, often seizing vulnerability as the grounds for progressive insight. The texts at the heart of this study, from nineteenth-century sensation novels to early twentieth-century journalistic fiction, imagine spectacular collisions, terrifying conflagrations, and all manner of catastrophe, social, political, and environmental. Together they write against illusions of inviolability in a growing technological and managerial culture, and they imagine how the recognition of universal vulnerability may challenge normative representations of social, political, and economic marginality.
Author : Jeffery Sims
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329026608
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The No-Nonsense Guide To Earthquake Safety (Enhanced Edition) written by Jeffery Sims and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book could save your life! The No-Nonsense Guide To Earthquake Safety (Enhanced Edition) is re-edited edition of the original guide designed to provide a comprehensive source for the latest research related to earthquake safety. Now in a larger size, re-edited, and additional appendices, the subjects covered include: a basic survey-level understanding of earthquakes; addressing long-held earthquake myths; how to be proactive in preparing for an earthquake; advice by government and professionals in the geological sciences on the best courses of action during an earthquake; the best shelter/courses of action during an earthquake; and how to remain safe after an earthquake has occurred. The Enhanced Edition also contains updated appendices that include a listing of government and charitable resources (for those affected by earthquakes), and the latest research regarding animal behavior & earthquakes, as well as the latest advancements toward creating earthquake detection systems.
Author : Mohammed I. El-Sabh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401150346
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Earthquake and Atmospheric Hazards written by Mohammed I. El-Sabh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquakes and Atmospheric Hazards contains a selection of papers that were presented as part of the Sixth International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made Hazards (HAZARDS-96) held in Toronto, Canada during July, 1996. The Symposium was very timely, given the large number of natural disasters that have occurred in various parts of the world during the 1990s, the United Nations' International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). The human reaction to these disasters has varied widely from one event to the next and the economic and social costs have been immense with damage running into billions of dollars. Having in everyone's mind the Northridge, California (1994) and the Kobe, Japan (1995) earthquakes, the volcanoes in the Philippines, the cyclones and related storm surges in Bangladesh, and the floods in North America and Europe caused by heavy rains, the Symposium attracted more than one hundred papers covering various aspects of these events. The eleven papers included in this volume deal with the scientific and management issues of those earthquakes and atmospheric hazards that occurred during the late 1990s, with emphasis on the preparedness aspects. A summary report of the HAZARDS-96 Symposium and recommendations adopted by the participants is also included. Earthquakes and Atmospheric Hazards forms an excellent reference for scientists, students, engineers, the insurance industry, authorities specializing in public safety and natural hazards preparedness and mitigation plans.
Author : Vladimír Schenk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400902433
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Earthquake Hazard and Risk written by Vladimír Schenk and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquake Hazard and Risk is a book summarizing selected papers presented at the 27th General Assembly of the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior (Wellington, January 1994). The papers, rigorously scrutinized by an international board of referees, cover some recent aspects of current research in earthquake hazard and seismic risk. They address the algorithms and methodology used in seismological applications, the reliability of these techniques with the decreasing level of probability and uncertainty associated with various seismotectonic settings, the physical and statistical nature of earthquake occurrences, strong ground motions and effects of surface seismogeological conditions. A special effort has been made to include papers that illustrate the assessment of earthquake hazard and seismic risk through applications at sites in either inter-plate or intra-plate tectonic settings. Of particular interest is hazard assessment in regions of rare large earthquakes. The book is suitable for those interested in earthquake hazard and seismic risk research as well as a more general audience of seismologists, geophysicists and Earth scientists. It is also useful for authorities responsible for public safety and natural hazard mitigation plans and for insurance companies.
Author : Risa Palm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367159726
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Illusions of Safety written by Risa Palm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-13 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes Japanese earthquakes and United States earthquakes and presents the study of human response to earthquake hazards. It discusses risk perception about earthquakes, government policies, and adoption of earthquake mitigation measures in these countries.
Author : Serguei Balassanian
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401595445
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Reduction written by Serguei Balassanian and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998 Armenia was commemorating the tenth anniversary of the catastrophic Spitak earthquake. The Second International Conference on "Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Reduction" sponsored by the Government of the Republic of Armenia and United Nation's International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (UN/IDNDR) was held in dedication to that event between 14-21 September (later referred to as Yerevan Conference). The Yerevan Conference has been organized by the National Survey for Seismic Protection (NSSP) of the Republic of Armenia. All level's decision-makers (from the ministers to the local authorities), politicians, scientists, leaders of the executive and legislative powers, psychologists, leading businessmen, representatives from the private sector and the media as well as from the International Organizations have been invited by the Armenian NSSP to take part in joint discussion of the Seismic Risk Reduction Problem for the first time in the history of such forums. Armenian NSSP's such initiative has been triggered by the experience of the Spitak earthquake and other disasters. They showed that it will be possible to reduce the risks, posed by the natural disaster, only through the common efforts of all the community in co-operation with the International institutions.
Author : Seth Stein
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023152241X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Disaster Deferred written by Seth Stein and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A geologist takes readers inside contemporary earthquake research to offer a new account of the Midwest’s legendary New Madrid fault—“an exceptional read” (Choice). In the winter of 1811-12, a series of large earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone shook the Midwest. These historic geological events are often incorrectly described as the biggest ever to hit the United States. Today the federal government ranks the earthquake hazard in the Midwest as high as California's and is pressuring communities to undertake expensive preparations for disaster. In Disaster Deferred, geologist Seth Stein revisits these earthquakes, the legends that have grown around them, and the predictions of doom that have followed in their wake. He details how limited scientific knowledge, bureaucratic instincts, and the media's love of a good story have exaggerated these hazards. Debunking the hype, Stein explains how contemporary seismological techniques—including the use of GPS—painting a very different-and much less frightening-picture of the future. Using new geological ideas and data, he calls for a more sensible, less costly policy. “An essential book for policy makers, economists, and notably educators.”—Choice
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Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0080885225
Total Pages : 6392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Treatise on Geomorphology written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 6392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The changing focus and approach of geomorphic research suggests that the time is opportune for a summary of the state of discipline. The number of peer-reviewed papers published in geomorphic journals has grown steadily for more than two decades and, more importantly, the diversity of authors with respect to geographic location and disciplinary background (geography, geology, ecology, civil engineering, computer science, geographic information science, and others) has expanded dramatically. As more good minds are drawn to geomorphology, and the breadth of the peer-reviewed literature grows, an effective summary of contemporary geomorphic knowledge becomes increasingly difficult. The fourteen volumes of this Treatise on Geomorphology will provide an important reference for users from undergraduate students looking for term paper topics, to graduate students starting a literature review for their thesis work, and professionals seeking a concise summary of a particular topic. Information on the historical development of diverse topics within geomorphology provides context for ongoing research; discussion of research strategies, equipment, and field methods, laboratory experiments, and numerical simulations reflect the multiple approaches to understanding Earth’s surfaces; and summaries of outstanding research questions highlight future challenges and suggest productive new avenues for research. Our future ability to adapt to geomorphic changes in the critical zone very much hinges upon how well landform scientists comprehend the dynamics of Earth’s diverse surfaces. This Treatise on Geomorphology provides a useful synthesis of the state of the discipline, as well as highlighting productive research directions, that Educators and students/researchers will find useful. Geomorphology has advanced greatly in the last 10 years to become a very interdisciplinary field. Undergraduate students looking for term paper topics, to graduate students starting a literature review for their thesis work, and professionals seeking a concise summary of a particular topic will find the answers they need in this broad reference work which has been designed and written to accommodate their diverse backgrounds and levels of understanding Editor-in-Chief, Prof. J. F. Shroder of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, is past president of the QG&G section of the Geological Society of America and present Trustee of the GSA Foundation, while being well respected in the geomorphology research community and having won numerous awards in the field. A host of noted international geomorphologists have contributed state-of-the-art chapters to the work. Readers can be guaranteed that every chapter in this extensive work has been critically reviewed for consistency and accuracy by the World expert Volume Editors and by the Editor-in-Chief himself No other reference work exists in the area of Geomorphology that offers the breadth and depth of information contained in this 14-volume masterpiece. From the foundations and history of geomorphology through to geomorphological innovations and computer modelling, and the past and future states of landform science, no "stone" has been left unturned!
