Strong Motion

Strong Motion
Title Strong Motion PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Franzen
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 536
Release 2010-08-30
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1429957824

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Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.

Strong Ground Motion Seismology

Strong Ground Motion Seismology
Title Strong Ground Motion Seismology PDF eBook
Author Mustafa Erdik
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 630
Release 1987-07-31
Genre Nature
ISBN 9789027725325

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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Ankara, Turkey, June 10-21, 1985

The Discomfort Zone

The Discomfort Zone
Title The Discomfort Zone PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Franzen
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 212
Release 2010-08-24
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0374707626

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen's tale of growing up, squirming in his own über-sensitive skin, from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," into an adult with strong inconvenient passions. Whether he's writing about the explosive dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship in the 1970s, the effects of Kafka's fiction on his protracted quest to lose his virginity, or the web of connections between bird watching, his all-consuming marriage, and the problem of global warming, Franzen is always feelingly engaged with the world we live in now. The Discomfort Zone is a wise, funny, and gorgeously written self-portrait by one of America's finest writers.

Directions in Strong Motion Instrumentation

Directions in Strong Motion Instrumentation
Title Directions in Strong Motion Instrumentation PDF eBook
Author Polat Gülkan
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 315
Release 2006-01-14
Genre Technology & Engineering
ISBN 1402038127

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Strong ground motion measuring and recording instruments play a major role in mitigation of seismic risk. The strong ground motion near the source of an earthquake describes the effects that endanger our built environment, and is also the most detailed clue concerning the source mechanism of the earthquake. The range of complexity that engulfs our understanding of the source parameters of a major earthquake (extent of the source mechanism, stress drop, wave propagation patterns) and how buildings and other works of construction respond to ground-transmitted dynamic effects may be overpowered by improved direct observations. Strong motion seismographs provide the information that enables scientists and engineers to resolve the many issues that are intertwined with practical problems of building safe communities worldwide. They may be installed as arrays close to major fault zones, consisting of many instruments arranged in some geometrical pattern, or in the vicinity and mounted on buildings. This book, which contains papers by invited authorities, represents a unique interaction between seismologists and earthquake engineers who examine issues of mutual concern in an overlapping area of major interest. The papers have been grouped around three major areas. -Seismic Hazard and Extreme Motions -Engineering Uses of Strong Motion Seismograms -Arrays and Observations.

Reading and Interpreting Strong Motion Accelerograms

Reading and Interpreting Strong Motion Accelerograms
Title Reading and Interpreting Strong Motion Accelerograms PDF eBook
Author Donald E. Hudson
Publisher
Pages 120
Release 1979
Genre Accelerograms
ISBN

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The End of the End of the Earth

The End of the End of the Earth
Title The End of the End of the Earth PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Franzen
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 241
Release 2018-11-13
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0374147930

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A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them.” For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk-taking essayist. Now, at a moment when technology has inflamed tribal hatreds and the planet is beset by unnatural calamities, he is back with a new collection of essays that recall us to more humane ways of being in the world. Franzen’s great loves are literature and birds, and The End of the End of the Earth is a passionate argument for both. Where the new media tend to confirm one’s prejudices, he writes, literature “invites you to ask whether you might be somewhat wrong, maybe even entirely wrong, and to imagine why someone else might hate you.” Whatever his subject, Franzen’s essays are always skeptical of received opinion, steeped in irony, and frank about his own failings. He’s frank about birds, too (they kill “everything imaginable”), but his reporting and reflections on them—on seabirds in New Zealand, warblers in East Africa, penguins in Antarctica—are both a moving celebration of their beauty and resilience and a call to action to save what we love. Calm, poignant, carefully argued, full of wit, The End of the End of the Earth provides a welcome breath of hope and reason.

Catalog of Seismograms and Strong-motion Records

Catalog of Seismograms and Strong-motion Records
Title Catalog of Seismograms and Strong-motion Records PDF eBook
Author Leslie D. Morris
Publisher
Pages 80
Release 1977
Genre Seismology
ISBN

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