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Author : L. R. Reddy
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788176482523
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (825 download)
Download or read book The Pain and Horror written by L. R. Reddy and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of Gujarat earthquake of January 26, 2001.
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Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Gujarat Earthquake, 26th January 2001 written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume Documents The Devastating Gujarat Earthquake Of 26 January 2001. Contents Cover: Earthquakes-The Broader Perspective - Devastated Gujarat - The Response - Macro-Level Gujarat Profile - Sectoral Issues-Damage Assessment And Rehabilitation/Reconstruction Programme - Rehabilitation Effort District Kutch (End Noveber, 2001) - Overview Of Rehabilitation Effort In The State - Salient Features And The Lessons Learnt. 10 Annexures - 11 Maps - Number Of Colour Illustration. Condition As Good As New.
Author : Edward Simpson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849042871
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (428 download)
Download or read book The Political Biography of an Earthquake written by Edward Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those so-minded, the aftermath of an earthquake presents opportunities to intervene. Thus, in Gujarat, following the disaster of 2001, leaders were deposed, proletariats created, religious fundamentalism incubated, the state restructured, and industrial capital- ism expanded exponentially. Rather than gazing in at those struggling in the ruins, as is commonplace in the literature, this book looks out from the affected region at those who came to intervene. Based on extensive research amid the dust and noise of re- construction, the author focuses on the survivors and their interactions with death, history, and with those who came to use the shock of disaster to change the order of things. Edward Simpson takes us deep into the experience of surviving a 'natural' disaster. We see a society in mourning, further alienated by manufactured conditions of uncertainty and absurdity. We witness arguments about the past. What was important? What should be preserved? Was modernisation the cause of the disaster or the antidote? As people were putting things back together, they also knew that future earthquakes were inevitable. How did they learn to live with this terrible truth? How have people in other times and places come to terms with the promise of another earthquake, knowing that things will fall apart again?
Author : Edward Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199359929
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (599 download)
Download or read book The Political Biography of an Earthquake written by Edward Simpson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those so-minded, the aftermath of an earthquake presents opportunities to intervene. Thus, in Gujarat, following the disaster of 2001, leaders were deposed, proletariats created, religious fundamentalism incubated, the state restructured, and industrial capital-ism expanded exponentially. Rather than gazing in at those struggling in the ruins, as is commonplace in the literature, this book looks out from the affected region at those who came to intervene. Based on extensive research amid the dust and noise of reconstruction, the author focuses on the survivors and their interactions with death, history, and with those who came to use the shock of disaster to change the order of things. Edward Simpson takes us deep into the experience of surviving a "natural" disaster. We see a society in mourning, further alienated by manufactured conditions of uncertainty and absurdity. We witness arguments about the past. What was important? What should be preserved? Was modernisation the cause of the disaster or the antidote? As people were putting things back together, they also knew that future earthquakes were inevitable. How did they learn to live with this terrible truth? How have people in other times and places come to terms with the promise of another earthquake, knowing that things will fall apart again?
Author : Shirish Patel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136518088
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Recovering from Earthquakes written by Shirish Patel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-07-26 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquakes come without warming, and often cause massive devastation, resulting not only in the loss of property but also of lives. Many of the survivors suffer from intense and lasting psychological trauma. This book covers the experience of recent earthquakes in India, and what has been learnt (and what we have failed to learn) in the process of managing the aftermath in each case. This includes immediate medical attention, long-term mental health care, and the reconstruction of housing and infrastructure in both rural and urban areas. The experiences of the contributors, many of whom have actively contributed their expertise to disaster management and recovery, help us understand what problems require a swift response and which aspects should be based on detailed analyses keeping in mind local conditions. Reconstruction is seen as offering an opportunity to rebuild society such that all sections of the population are empowered and brought into the community’s decision-making process. It is also an opportunity to develop construction techniques that are suited to local materials and skills but are also more earthquake-resistant than the old. And finally, there is the realisation that the best first responders are local community groups which need to be nurtured, and trained in crisis management and risk mitigation.
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Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Major Quake Likely to Strike Between 2000 and 2030 written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robin David
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9789351160687
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (66 download)
Download or read book City Of Fear: Staying Normal in Abnormal Times written by Robin David and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary account of ordinary people in troubled times In 2001, a calamitous earthquake struck Gujarat. A year later came the kind of communal carnage the nation had not seen since the Partition. For Robin David, then an assistant editor with the Times of India, the two events engendered a tectonic shift in his own life. The earthquake left deep cracks in his ancestral home, while the riots undermined all the certainties of life, making it impossible to walk through hitherto familiar neighbourhoods. A decade later, the wounds have not healed. At a time when the memory of the riots has already faded in the minds of many, City of Fear documents the varied forms of fear that people in Gujarat experienced during that period, especially those of the author's own Indian Jewish Bene Israeli family.
Author : Richard Dixon Oldham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (385 download)
Download or read book 12th June 1897, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India written by Richard Dixon Oldham and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains extracts from the 1981 reprint of the 1899 Memoirs. Issued by the Survey in 1997 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Assam earthquake.
Author : Thomas L. Holzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Plan to Coordinate NEHRP Post-earthquake Investigations written by Thomas L. Holzer and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman Reiss
Publisher : Care Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781932747058
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Earthquake America Forgot written by Norman Reiss and published by Care Publications. This book was released on 2005-02-07 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientifically and historically describes the New Madrid, Missouri earthquakes of 1811-1812 and provides valuable information in the event of an earthquake today.
Author : Sundarshan Kumar Bhatia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Earthquakes written by Sundarshan Kumar Bhatia and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Earthquake Information Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Dixon Oldham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Report on the great earthquake of 12th June 1897 written by Richard Dixon Oldham and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Robinson
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 050077370X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations, and Civilization written by Andrew Robinson and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A truly welcome and refreshing study that puts earthquake impact on history into a proper perspective." --Amos Nur, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University, California, and author of Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God Since antiquity, on every continent, human beings in search of attractive landscapes and economic prosperity have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of devastation by an earthquake. Today, around half of the world’s largest cities – as many as sixty – lie in areas of major seismic activity. Many, such as Lisbon, Naples, San Francisco, Teheran, and Tokyo, have been severely damaged or destroyed by earthquakes in the past. But throughout history, starting with ancient Jericho, Rome, and Sparta, cities have proved to be extraordinarily resilient: only one, Port Royal in the Caribbean, was abandoned after an earthquake. Earth-Shattering Events seeks to understand exactly how humans and earthquakes have interacted, not only in the short term but also in the long perspective of history. In some cases, physical devastation has been followed by decline. But in others, the political and economic reverberations of earthquake disasters have presented opportunities for renewal. After its wholesale destruction in 1906, San Francisco went on to flourish, eventually giving birth to the high-tech industrial area on the San Andreas fault known as Silicon Valley. An earthquake in Caracas in 1812 triggered the creation of new nations in the liberation of South America from Spanish rule. Another in Tangshan in 1976 catalysed the transformation of China into the world’s second largest economy. The growth of the scientific study of earthquakes is woven into this far-reaching history. It began with a series of earthquakes in England in 1750. Today, seismologists can monitor the vibration of the planet second by second and the movement of tectonic plates millimeter by millimeter. Yet, even in the 21st century, great earthquakes are still essentially "acts of God," striking with much less warning than volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, and even tornadoes and tsunamis.
Author : Henry Fountain
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 1101904089
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Great Quake written by Henry Fountain and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorded history—the 1964 Alaska earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and swept away the island village of Chenega—and the geologist who hunted for clues to explain how and why it took place. At 5:36 p.m. on March 27, 1964, a magnitude 9.2. earthquake—the second most powerful in world history—struck the young state of Alaska. The violent shaking, followed by massive tsunamis, devastated the southern half of the state and killed more than 130 people. A day later, George Plafker, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, arrived to investigate. His fascinating scientific detective work in the months that followed helped confirm the then-controversial theory of plate tectonics. In a compelling tale about the almost unimaginable brute force of nature, New York Times science journalist Henry Fountain combines history and science to bring the quake and its aftermath to life in vivid detail. With deep, on-the-ground reporting from Alaska, often in the company of George Plafker, Fountain shows how the earthquake left its mark on the land and its people—and on science.
Author : Richard Dixon Oldham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Report on the Great Earthquake of 12th June 1897 written by Richard Dixon Oldham and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains extracts from the 1981 reprint of the 1899 Memoirs. Issued by the Survey in 1997 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Assam earthquake.
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ISBN 13 : 9780943198965
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)
Download or read book Lessons Learned Over Time written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is a major contribution to earthquake recovery literature. It focuses on the Government of Maharashtra's housing rebuilding program, financed in large part through a World Bank credit, following the September 1993 Maharashtra, India earthquake. The project is one of the largest ever attempted in the world, particularly with its emphasis on nonengineered, unreinforced masonry construction. Ultimately, 27,000 new houses were built and another 189,000 were repaired. The sheer volume of houses rebuilt, repaired, or strengthened is impressive in speed, quantity, and general quality. These houses were rebuilt within the context of an even larger rehabilitation program that included other social and economic elements as well as the preparation of a disaster management plan. This report highlights observations that may be useful to earthquake risk reduction professionals. While this is a project carried out in a developing country with different construction materials and practices from developed countries, many of the strategies adopted are appropriate for consideration in all contexts.
