Rongo Univesity Library

Your cart is empty.

California earthquakes

by Geschwind, Carl-Henry,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press, (Baltimore ; | London :) Physical details: xi, 348 p.
Subject(s): Earthquake hazard analysis -- California -- History. | Earthquakes -- California -- Safety measures -- History. | Electronic books.
Year: 2001
Online resources:
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-316) and index.

Reactions to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 -- Setting up a scientific infrastructure : seismology California style, 1910-1925 -- Bailey Willis and the promotion of earthquake safety in the mid-1920s -- Engineering a regulatory-state apparatus : seismic safety in the 1930s -- Earthquake experts and the Cold War state -- New initiatives for earthquake preparedness, 1964-1971 -- Seismic politics : responses to the San Fernando earthquake of 1971 -- Pushing prediction : establishment of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program -- The regulatory-state apparatus in action.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha