Big One The Earthquake That Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science

Name: Big One The Earthquake That Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science
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ISBN: 9780618341504

ISBN-10: 0618341501

ISBN-13: 9780618341504

Edition: 2004 (Teachers Edition, Instructors Manual, etc.)

Authors: Charles Officer, Jake Page

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In the early 1800s a series of gargantuan earth tremors seized the American frontier. Tremendous roars and flashes of eerie light accompanied huge spouts of water and gas. Six-foot-high waterfalls appeared in the Mississippi River, thousands of trees exploded, and some 1,500 people -- in what was then a sparsely populated wilderness -- were killed. A region the size of Texas, centered in Missouri and Arkansas, was rent apart, and the tremors reached as far as Montreal. Forget the 1906 earthquake -- this set of quakes constituted the Big One. The United States would face certain catastrophe if such quakes occurred again. Could they? The answer lies in seismology, a science that is still…

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 6/17/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Jake Page has been editor of Natural History magazine and science editor of Smithsonian magazine. He lives in Corrales, New Mexico.



Introduction: Reelfoot's Folly



The New Madrid Quakes



The World Gone Mad



Dreams, Omens, and War



Pendulums and Polymaths



The Earthquake Hunters



Myths, Maps, and Machines



Finding Faults



Intensity, Magnitude, and Stars



Geophysical Leaps Forward



Looking Back, Looking Forward



Rifts, Plumes, and Reservoirs



The Art of Prediction



False Prophets



New Madrid Redux


Notes


Index