Quakeland : on the road to America's next devastating earthquake /
Earthquakes. You need to worry about them only if you're in San Francisco, right? Wrong. We have been making enormous changes to subterranean America, and Mother Earth, as always, has been making some of her own. The consequences for our real estate, our civil engineering and our communities wi...
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New York :
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Land made for you and me. Their campsite, our core ; A beautiful place for an earthquake ; Coffee in Salt Lake ; Our floating world ; Cold storage
- A wealth of water and rock. Dam busting with Sensurround G-forces! ; The Big Muddy ; Thank God for FedEx ; The Lucky Friday mine ; Digging back East ; Our ingenious wells ; The earthquake fighters of Oklahoma ; Tank farms on the prairie ; Cool stuff to store in mines
- The voice of rage and ruin. Blocks and blocks ; Gimme shelter ; The school ; Predicting the unpredictable ; Is the sky falling? ; Your two-minute warning.