Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest
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 n...
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Corvallis, Oregon
Oregon State University
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- I. Part I: Introduction
- II. Part II: Tectonic Plates, Geologic Time, and Earthquakes
- 1. A Concept of Time
- 2. Plate Tectonics
- 3. Earthquake Basics
- 4. Cascadia Subduction Zone
- 5. Earthquakes in the Juan de Fuca Plate
- 6. Earthquakes in the Crust: Closer to Home
- 7. Memories of the Future: The Uncertain Art of Earthquake Forecasting
- III. Part III: Shaky Ground and Big Waves
- 8. Solid Rock and Bowls of Jello
- 9. Tsunami!
- IV. Part IV: Prevention and Countermeasures
- 10. Earthquake Insurance: Betting Against Earthquakes
- 11. Is Your Home Ready for an Earthquake?
- 12. Earthquake Design of Large Structures
- 13. The Federal Government and Earthquakes
- 14. The Role of State and Local Government
- 15. Preparing for the Next Earthquake
- 16. An Uncertain Appointment with a Restless Earth