Author: Seymour Simo
Publisher: Colli
Keywords: earthquakes
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0060877154
ISBN-13: 9780060877156

Exceptional nonfiction for children from two of the most trusted names in science education: Seymour Simon and the Smithsonian Institution.

Author: Bruce Bolt
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
Keywords: earthquakes
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1999-06-23
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 071673396X
ISBN-13: 9780716733966

This text on earthquakes provides an explanation behind these deadly and destructive events, from geological faults to intensity patterns, side effects and protection of people and property. The fourth edition includes descriptions of earthquakes in highly-populated areas such as Kobe, Japan.

Author: S.K. Guha
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: earthquakes, induced
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2001-01-31
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0412498707
ISBN-13: 9780412498701

This book on Induced Earthquakes is the first of its kind dealing with all kinds of induced phenomena such as water-reservoirs, petroleum and gas extraction, volcanic eruptions, underground mining, underground nuclear explosions, and astronomical tidal stress. Other publications in the field of induced seismicity deal with individual induced phenomena and thus do not cover the entire spectra of induced phenomena. The comprehensive coverage in this book means that basic and fundamental aspects of induced mechanisms of seismic slip have been addressed. Moreover, induced phenomena like un

Author: Jennifer Weiner
Publisher: Atria
Keywords: earthquakes, little
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2004-09-14
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0743470095
ISBN-13: 9780743470094

This is the story of what comes after ’happily ever after’ as three young wives make the journey into motherhood, and discover how it changes their sense of themselves and their relationships with friends and family. There’s Becky, a plump, sexy chef, with an overworked husband, an adorable baby girl ...and the mother-in-law from hell. There’s Kelly, an event planner who’s trying to cram sixty hours of work into twenty-hour weeks, all while charting her baby’s every move on a spreadsheet and hoping that her husband will pull his life together, pull on some p

Author: James L. Penick
Publisher: University of Missouri Pre
Keywords: earthquakes, madrid, new
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1982-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0826203442
ISBN-13: 9780826203441

Authors:I. M. Idriss, R. W. Boulanger,
Publisher: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Keywords: earthquakes, liquefaction, soil
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2008-09-08
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 193288436X
ISBN-13: 9781932884364

This monograph updates a subject area covered in the 1982 classic text used around the world, Ground Motions and Soil Liquefaction During Earthquakes, by H. Bolton Seed and I.M. Idriss. The new publication will fill a need for a thorough synthesis in one accessible resource for students, practicing engineers, and other professionals of progress in the study of liquefaction since 1982. The following areas are covered: Fundamentals of liquefaction behavior: a framework for a common understanding of the development and limitations of various engineering analytical procedures. Liquefaction trigg

Author: Robert L. Kovach
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: americas, earthquakes
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2004-04-26
List price: $165.99
ISBN-10: 0521824893
ISBN-13: 9780521824897

There is emerging interest among researchers from various subject areas in understanding the interplay of earthquake and volcanic occurrences, archaeology and history through the discipline of archaeoseismology. This book focuses on the historical earthquakes of North and South America, and describes the effects of those earthquakes, using illustrated examples of recent structural damage at archaeological sites.