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Earthquake Time Bombs
Robert Yeats
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Description for Earthquake Time Bombs
hardcover. Assesses the cities and communities at critical risk of devastating earthquakes, and asks what we can do to protect them. Num Pages: 361 pages, 68 b/w illus. BIC Classification: RBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 718.
In a media interview in January 2010, scientist Robert Yeats sounded the alarm on Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as an 'earthquake time bomb', a region at critical risk of major seismic activity. One week later, a catastrophic earthquake struck the city, leaving over 100,000 dead and triggering a humanitarian crisis. In this timely study, Yeats sheds new light on other earthquake hotspots around the world and the communities at risk. He examines these seismic threats in the context of recent cultural history, including economic development, national politics and international conflicts. Descriptions of emerging seismic resilience plans from some cities provide a more ... Read more
In a media interview in January 2010, scientist Robert Yeats sounded the alarm on Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as an 'earthquake time bomb', a region at critical risk of major seismic activity. One week later, a catastrophic earthquake struck the city, leaving over 100,000 dead and triggering a humanitarian crisis. In this timely study, Yeats sheds new light on other earthquake hotspots around the world and the communities at risk. He examines these seismic threats in the context of recent cultural history, including economic development, national politics and international conflicts. Descriptions of emerging seismic resilience plans from some cities provide a more ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
361
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107085244
SKU
V9781107085244
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Ref
99-14
About Robert Yeats
Robert Yeats is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America. He is senior consultant and partner in Earth Consultants International, an international firm focusing on earthquake hazards, and also an Emeritus Professor at Oregon State University, where an endowed professorship has been named in his honour. He has decades of ... Read more
Reviews for Earthquake Time Bombs
'This book highlights the appalling reality of the threat to the world's growing population that is exposed to earthquakes, especially those concentrated in vulnerable megacities. The recent calamities of the earthquakes in Haiti and Nepal are simply foretastes of what is to come, unless decisive action is taken. It is written by someone perhaps uniquely qualified to do so: an ... Read more