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Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The San Andreas Fault is everywhere, and primed for a colossal quake. For decades, scientists have warned that such a sudden shifting of the Earth's crust is inevitable. In fact, it is a geologic necessity. The San Andreas fault runs almost the entire length of California, from the redwood forest to the east edge of the Salton Sea. Along the way, it passes through two of the largest urban areas of the country--San Francisco and Los Angeles. Dozens...
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
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,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD ed.
Language
English
Description
"Vancouver is completely submerged. Seattle and Portland are decimated by volcanoes, landslides and tsunamis. An earthquake might not destroy the west coast, but a megaquake just might. Californians have been ready for 'The Big One' for decades, but a tremor much farther north on the San Andreas Fault may spring to life. And, it could be ten times bigger."--Container.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From the Great Lakes to Iceland, the San Andreas Fault to Krakatoa, travel the globe to reveal the physical processes that have shaped some of the most well-known locations and geological phenomena in the world. With rocks as their clues and volcanoes, ice sheets, and colliding continents as their suspects, scientists launch a forensic investigation that helps visualize how the earth has evolved and formed over billions of years.
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