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Author : Mark Yashinsky
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Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989, Highway Systems written by Mark Yashinsky and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francisco X. Alarcón
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Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Loma Prieta written by Francisco X. Alarcón and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of these poems first appeared as Quake Poems ... in an effort by the author and Christopher Funkhouser to raise Earthquake Relief funds.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (388 download)
Download or read book The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989-- Landslides written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malcolm J. S. Johnston
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (287 download)
Download or read book The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989 written by Malcolm J. S. Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Preliminary Determination of Epicenters written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Trapenberg Frick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317338510
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Remaking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge written by Karen Trapenberg Frick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of TransportiCA’s September Book Club Award 2018 On 17 October 1989 one the largest earthquakes to occur in California since the San Francisco earthquake of April 1906 struck Northern California. Damage was extensive, none more so than the partial collapse of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge’s eastern span, a vital link used by hundreds of thousands of Californians every day. The bridge was closed for a month for repairs and then reopened to traffic. But what ensued over the next 25 years is the extraordinary story that Karen Trapenberg Frick tells here. It is a cautionary tale to which any governing authority embarking on a megaproject should pay heed. She describes the process by which the bridge was eventually replaced as an exercise in shadowboxing which pitted the combined talents and shortcomings, partnerships and jealousies, ingenuity and obtuseness, generosity and parsimony of the State’s and the region’s leading elected officials, engineers, architects and other members of the governing elites against a collectively imagined future catastrophe of unknown proportions. In so doing she highlights three key questions: If safety was the reason to replace the bridge, why did it take almost 25 years to do so? How did an original estimate of $250 million in 1995 soar to $6.5 billion by 2014? And why was such a complex design chosen? Her final chapter – part epilogue, part reflection – provides recommendations to improve megaproject delivery and design.
Author : Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466864311
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Magnitude 8 written by Philip L. Fradkin and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnitude 8 is the archetypal natural disaster defined. To understand the cataclysmic earthquake that will tear California apart one day, Philip L. Fradkin has written a dramatic history of earthquakes and an eloquent guide to the San Andreas Fault, the world's best-known tectonic landscape. The author includes vivid stories of earthquakes elsewhere: in New England, the central Mississippi River Valley, New York City, Europe, and the Far East. Always, he combines human and natural drama to place the reader at the epicenter of the most instantaneous and unpredictable of all the Earth's phenomena. Following the San Andreas Fault from Cape Mecino to Mexico--canoeing the fault line in northern California and walking underground through the Hollywood fault--noted environmental historian Philip L. Fradkin reclaims the human dimensions of earthquakes from the science-dominated accounts.
Author : Richard Gendron
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458781704
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book The Leftmost City: Power and Progressive Politics in Santa Cruz written by Richard Gendron and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost all US cities are controlled by real estate and development interests, but Santa Cruz, California, is a deviant case. An unusual coalition of socialist-feminists, environmentalists, social-welfare liberals, and neighborhood activists has st...
Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101459018
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book A Paradise Built in Hell written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories.
Author : Charles Scawthorn
Publisher : ASCE Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780784475515
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Fire Following Earthquake written by Charles Scawthorn and published by ASCE Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared by the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering of ASCE. This TCLEE Monograph covers the entire range of fire following earthquake (FFE) issues, from historical fires to 20th-century fires in Kobe, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, and Northridge. FFE has the potential of causing catastrophic losses in the United States, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, and other seismically active countries with wood houses. This comprehensive book on FFE and urban conflagrations provides state-of-the-practice insight on unique issues, such as large diameter flex hose applications by fire and water departments. Topics include: History of past fires; Computer modeling of fire spread in the post-earthquake urban environment; Concurrent damage and fire impacts for water, power gas, communication and transportation systems; Examples of reliable water systems built or designed in San Francisco, Vancouver, Berkeley, and Kyoto; Use of large diameter (5 in.) and ultralarge diameter (12 in.) flex hose for fire fighting and water restoration; and Cost-effectiveness of various FFE mitigation strategies, with a detailed benefit-cost model. Water utility engineers, fire fighting professionals, and emergency response planners will benefit from reading this book.
Author : George W. Housner
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788149350
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Competing Against Time written by George W. Housner and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: the earthquake's impact on transportation systems; findings (seismology and ground motion; transportation structures; Caltrans seismic design practices; retrofit program; other types of structures); recommendations to improve California's earthquake safety; seismology and ground motion; seismic design codes in California; the California bridge seismic retrofit program; San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge span failure; the Cypress Viaduct collapse; San Francisco freeway viaducts; repair and upgrade of the San Francisco freeway viaducts. Extensive annotated bibliography.
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Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989 written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060572000
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book A Crack in the Edge of the World written by Simon Winchester and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the legendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its startling impact on American history and, just as important, what science has recently revealed about the fascinating subterranean processes that produced it—and almost certainly will cause it to strike again.
Author : Richard C. Wilson
Publisher : International City County Management Assn
ISBN 13 : 9780873260831
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Loma Prieta Quake written by Richard C. Wilson and published by International City County Management Assn. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 544 pages
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Download or read book Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey, 1971-1981 written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geological Survey (É.-U.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989: Earthquake occurrence written by Geological Survey (É.-U.) and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joanne M. Nigg
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989--recovery, Mitigation, and Reconstruction written by Joanne M. Nigg and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
