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Cascadia's Fault
Counterpoint 2011; US$ 26.00There’s a crack in the earth’s crust that runs roughly 31 miles offshore, approximately 683 miles from northern California up through Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has generated massive earthquakes over and over again throughout geologic timeat least 36 major events in the last 10,000... more...
Plates vs Plumes
John Wiley & Sons 2011; US$ 149.95Since the advent of the mantle plume hypothesis in 1971, scientists have been faced with the problem that its predictions are not confirmed by observation. For thirty years, the usual reaction has been to adapt the hypothesis in numerous ways. As a result, the multitude of current plume variants now amounts to an unfalsifiable hypothesis. In the early... more...
Landslides
WIT Press 2011; US$ 130.00This volume is the second of the Series the Publisher decided to launch to cover different aspects related to Safety and Security Engineering. The volume is devoted to landslides; this geological phenomenon includes a wide range of ground movement, such as rock falls, deep failure of slopes and shallow debris flows. Although the action of gravity is... more...
Fire Season
Pan Macmillan 2011; US$ 8.95'I've watched deer and elk frolic in the meadow below me, and pine trees explode in a blue ball of smoke. If there's a better job anywhere on the planet, I'd like to know what it is. ' For nearly a decade, Philip Connors has spent half of each year in a small room at the top of a tower, on top of a mountain, alone in millions of acres of remote... more...
Solar Flares
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 3.99There is a force out there that could destroy our world in minutes. . . . Solar flares?brief bursts of radiation from our sun?have always existed and have never been particularly dangerous. Nature hasn?t changed. But we have. By making our world so dependent on electricity delivered by huge, unprotected power grids we have inadvertently... more...
Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailablePhotos from the book (YouTube video montage) '[Van Beynen] assembles a kaleidoscopic view of what it was like in the central city when the earthquake struck . . . recounted by a representative group of those who came through the terrors alive. If you want to know what courage sounds like, then you will find that aplenty in these voices; this is... more...
Extreme Weather
National Geographic Society 2013; US$ 3.99Severe weather events like hurricanes and tornadoes have increased fourfold in the last two decades, shaking the foundations of our existence. Weather-related tragedies have fascinated humans throughout time. For those who loved The Perfect Storm and Krakatoa, the millions who log onto daily weather forecasting sites and check weather apps, and... more...
Seismic Migration: Imaging of Acoustic Energy by Wave Field Extrapolation
Elsevier Science 1984; US$ 69.50Seismic Migration: Imaging of Acoustic Energy by Wave Field Extrapolation more...









