Predicting the unpredictable : the tumultuous science of earthquake prediction /
Hough, Susan Elizabeth 1961-
Predicting the unpredictable : the tumultuous science of earthquake prediction / [by] Susan Hough. - Princeton: Oxford Princeton University Press, [c2010]. - [261] p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes index (p. [255]-[261]).
Ch. 1 Ready to Rumble. -- ch. 2 Ready to Explode. -- ch. 3 Irregular Clocks. -- ch. 4 The Hayward Fault. -- ch. 5 Predicting the Unpredictable. -- ch. 6 The Road to Haicheng. -- ch. 7 Percolation. -- ch. 8 The Heyday. -- ch. 9 The Hangover. -- ch. 10 Highly Charged Debates. -- ch. 11 Reading the Tea Leaves. -- ch. 12 Accelerating Moment Release. -- ch. 13 On the Fringe. -- ch. 14 Complicity. -- ch. 15 Measles. -- ch. 16 We All Have Our Faults. -- ch. 17 The Bad One. -- ch. 18 Whither Earthquake Prediction?.
An earthquake can strike without warning and wreak horrific destruction and death, whether it's the cataclysmic 2008 Sichuan quake in China that killed tens of thousands or a future great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in California, which scientists know is inevitable. Yet despite rapid advances in earthquake science, seismologists still can't predict when the Big One will hit. Predicting the Unpredictable is the first book to explain why, exploring the fact and fiction behind the science and pseudoscience of earthquake prediction.
9780691138169
Earthquake prediction
551.22
Predicting the unpredictable : the tumultuous science of earthquake prediction / [by] Susan Hough. - Princeton: Oxford Princeton University Press, [c2010]. - [261] p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Includes index (p. [255]-[261]).
Ch. 1 Ready to Rumble. -- ch. 2 Ready to Explode. -- ch. 3 Irregular Clocks. -- ch. 4 The Hayward Fault. -- ch. 5 Predicting the Unpredictable. -- ch. 6 The Road to Haicheng. -- ch. 7 Percolation. -- ch. 8 The Heyday. -- ch. 9 The Hangover. -- ch. 10 Highly Charged Debates. -- ch. 11 Reading the Tea Leaves. -- ch. 12 Accelerating Moment Release. -- ch. 13 On the Fringe. -- ch. 14 Complicity. -- ch. 15 Measles. -- ch. 16 We All Have Our Faults. -- ch. 17 The Bad One. -- ch. 18 Whither Earthquake Prediction?.
An earthquake can strike without warning and wreak horrific destruction and death, whether it's the cataclysmic 2008 Sichuan quake in China that killed tens of thousands or a future great earthquake on the San Andreas Fault in California, which scientists know is inevitable. Yet despite rapid advances in earthquake science, seismologists still can't predict when the Big One will hit. Predicting the Unpredictable is the first book to explain why, exploring the fact and fiction behind the science and pseudoscience of earthquake prediction.
9780691138169
Earthquake prediction
551.22