Disaster Deferred: How New Science Is Changing Our View of Earthquake Hazards in the Midwest by Seth Stein

Disaster Deferred: How New Science Is Changing Our View of Earthquake Hazards in the Midwest

Seth Stein

296 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

challenging informative slow-paced
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In the winter of 1811-12, a series of large earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone-often incorrectly described as the biggest ever to hit the United States-shook the Midwest. Today the federal government ranks the hazard in the Midwest as high...

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