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100 1 _aThompson, Jerry,
_d1949-
245 1 0 _aCascadia's fault :
_bthe earthquake and tsunami that could devastate North America /
_cJerry Thompson ; with an introduction by Simon Winchester.
260 _aBerkeley, CA :
_bCounterpoint Press,
_cc2011.
300 _axxii, 337 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 _apt. 1. Tremors and ripples -- Mexico City : preview of coming events -- Lessons from the rubble : a front-page story -- The Alaska megathrust : Cascadia's northern cousin -- Against the wind of convention : Plafker, Benioff, and Press -- Cauldron and crust : the rehabilitation of continental drift -- Nuke on a fault : early clues in Humboldt Bay -- Proving the doubters wrong : the Chile connection -- Mount St. Helens : Cascadia's smoking gun? -- pt. 2. Setbacks and breakthroughs -- Mud cores and lasers : the search for evidence -- The whoops factor : Cascadia's true nature revealed -- Quake hunters : finding Cascadia's ghost forest -- Cedars, peat, and turbidites : a tipping point at Monmouth -- Cascadia's segmented past : apocalypse or decades of terror? -- Digital water : catching waves in a computer -- Defining the zone : hot rocks and high water -- Cracks, missing rings, and native voices : closing in on a killer quake -- The orphan tsunami : final proof of Cascadia's last rupture -- Episodic tremor and slip : tracking Cascadia with GPS -- Turbidite timeline : Cascadia's long and violent history -- When's this going to happen? : the problems with prediction -- p. 3. Shockwaves -- Facing reality : Cascadia equals Sumatra -- The next wave : thinking the unthinkable -- Watching it happen, wishing it wouldn't -- Cascadia's fault : day of reckoning -- Epilogue: Survival and resilience, a state of mind.
651 0 _aCascadia Subduction Zone.
650 0 _aEarthquakes
_zNorthwest, Pacific.
650 0 _aTsunamis
_zNorthwest, Pacific.
650 0 _aEarthquake prediction
_zNorthwest, Pacific.
650 0 _aTsunamis
_zNorthwest, Pacific
_xForecasting.
650 0 _aNatural disasters
_zNorthwest, Pacific.
650 0 _aNatural disasters
_zNorth America.
650 0 _aNatural disasters
_zPacific Area.
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