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Predicting the unpredictable : the tumultuous science of earthquake prediction /

Hough, Susan Elizabeth, 1961-

Predicting the unpredictable : the tumultuous science of earthquake prediction / Susan Hough. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010. - 260 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Ready to rumble -- Ready to explode -- Irregular clocks -- The Hayward Fault -- Predicting the unpredictable -- The road to Haicheng -- Percolation -- The heyday -- The Hangover -- Highly charged debates -- Reading the tea leaves -- Accelerating moment release -- On the fringe -- Complicity -- Measles -- We all have our faults -- The bad one -- Whither earthquake prediction?

9780691138169 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691138168 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2009008380

GBA999535 bnb

015391310 Uk


Earthquake prediction.

QE538.8 / .H68 2010

551.22

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