This how-to manual for life in earthquake country describes California's violent geologic past and recounts the state's revolutionary efforts to grapple with the earthquake threat. It examines major faults that threaten California and Nevada, reviews the current level of earthquake preparedness and disaster response, and suggests actions that citizens can take to protect their families and homes. Topics discussed include earthquake forecasting, catastrophe insurance, and tsunamis. Yeats is professor emeritus in the geosciences department at Oregon State University. c. Book News Inc.

This how-to manual for life in earthquake country describes California's violent geologic past and recounts the state's revolutionary efforts to grapple with the earthquake threat. It examines major faults that threaten California and Nevada, reviews the current level of earthquake preparedness and disaster response, and suggests actions that citizens can take to protect their families and homes. Topics discussed include earthquake forecasting, catastrophe insurance, and tsunamis. Yeats is professor emeritus in the geosciences department at Oregon State University. c. Book News Inc.

In this expanded new edition of Living With Earthquakes, Robert Yeats, a leading authority on earthquakes in California and the Pacific Northwest, describes the threat posed by the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a great earthquake fault which runs for hundreds of miles offshore from British Columbia to northern California. New research reveals subtle movements on the deepest part of this fault every 14?15 months?building up strain toward the next major earthquake. Combining cutting-edge research with practical safety information, Living with Earthquakes:? Introduces new information about the danger from faults beneath major Northwest cities: the Seattle Fault, Tacoma Fault and Portland Hills Fault? Explores such topics as earthquake forecasting, catastrophe insurance, tsunamis, soil liquefaction and seismic waves in Northwest lakes caused by Alaskan earthquakes? Reviews earthquake preparedness and disaster response in the aftermath of the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, the worst natural disaster in Washington?s history? Suggests actions that citizens can take to protect their families and homes. An essential guide for anyone interested in understanding earthquake science or in preparing for the next earthquake, this book is also a call to action. Vivid descriptions of recent disaster?including the great tsunami that swept down the Northwest coast in 1964, the 1993 Oregon earthquakes, and the 2001 Nisqually earthquake?underscore the urgent need for better earthquake planning and awareness.

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.

Discussion of what causes earthquakes and of some in California and Alaska. It includes the City of Palos Verdes Estates earthquake preparedness brochure.