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A race to avert a massive earthquake. The hero is Lewis Crane, a seismologist whose family perished in the one in Los Angeles in 1994 and who devotes himself to forecasting them. He predicts a giant one for the Mississippi Valley, it never materializes and Crane is laughed at. Then he discovers a mi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bantam Books,
1996.
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| Series: | Bantam spectra book.
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| Summary: | A race to avert a massive earthquake. The hero is Lewis Crane, a seismologist whose family perished in the one in Los Angeles in 1994 and who devotes himself to forecasting them. He predicts a giant one for the Mississippi Valley, it never materializes and Crane is laughed at. Then he discovers a mistake in his calculations and realizes the earthquake is round the corner. But how to convince the country? |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Science Fiction copy [A1485353938G] is an advance reading copy. |
| Physical Description: | 373 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0553097083 9780553097085 |