Download or read book Damages Losses from Future New Madrid Earthquakes written by David Stewart and published by Care Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Damages Losses from Future New Madrid Earthquakes written by David Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Damages and Losses from Future New Madrid Earthquakes written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enables anyone to make quantitaive, detailed, and reliable estimates upon which to base pre-earthquake planning and mitigation

Download or read book The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes written by Conevery Bolton Valencius and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent’s mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the time the nation began to recover from the Civil War, the New Madrid earthquakes had been essentially forgotten. In The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, Conevery Bolton Valencius remembers this major environmental disaster, demonstrating how events that have been long forgotten, even denied and ridiculed as tall tales, were in fact enormously important at the time of their occurrence, and continue to affect us today. Valencius weaves together scientific and historical evidence to demonstrate the vast role the New Madrid earthquakes played in the United States in the early nineteenth century, shaping the settlement patterns of early western Cherokees and other Indians, heightening the credibility of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa for their Indian League in the War of 1812, giving force to frontier religious revival, and spreading scientific inquiry. Moving into the present, Valencius explores the intertwined reasons—environmental, scientific, social, and economic—why something as consequential as major earthquakes can be lost from public knowledge, offering a cautionary tale in a world struggling to respond to global climate change amid widespread willful denial. Engagingly written and ambitiously researched—both in the scientific literature and the writings of the time—The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes will be an important resource in environmental history, geology, and seismology, as well as history of science and medicine and early American and Native American history.

Download or read book Earthquake Risk And Damage Functions written by Ben-Chieh Liu and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1981-06-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Next New Madrid Earthquake written by William Atkinson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientists who specialize in the study of Mississippi Valley earthquakes say that the region is overdue for a powerful tremor that will cause major damage and undoubtedly some casualties. The inevitability of a future quake and the lack of preparation by both individuals and communities provided the impetus for this book. Atkinson brings together applicable information from many disciplines: history, geology and seismology, engineering, zoology, politics and community planning, economics, environmental science, sociology, and psychology and mental health to provide the most comprehensive perspective to date of the myriad impacts of a major earthquake on the Mississippi Valley. Atkinson addresses such basic questions as "What, actually, are earthquakes? How do they occur? Where are they likely to occur? Can they be predicted, perhaps even prevented?" He also addresses those steps that individuals can take to improve their chances for survival both during and after an earthquake.

Download or read book Assessing the Felt Reports of the 1811 12 New Madrid Earthquakes in the Central United States written by Ronald L. Street and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The damage and felt reports describing the New Madrid, Mo., earthquakes of 1811-12 need to be assessed in the historical context in which the events occurred. Log cabins in the frontier settlements along the lower Ohio River Valley, for example, were built with a rudimentary form of base isolation, and their response to the earthquakes should not be evaluated in the same way that a modern wood-frame or brick building would be. Also, inaccuracies have crept into the databases used for estimating the epicenters and magnitudes of the earthquakes. For example, the magnitude of the December 16, 1811, earthquake has been based, in part, on the lack of damage to buildings built well after the occurrence of the 1811-12 events, and the locations and circumstances of some of the people who described their observations of earthquakes and aftershocks in December 1811 while traveling down the Mississippi River on flatboats have been incorrectly used to estimate modified Mercalli intensities. This study indicates that the damage areas for the 1811-12 earthquakes have been underestimated, and favors an epicenter for the January 23, 1812, earthquake in the northern end of the New Madrid Fault Zone, and that the three aftershocks that some have suggested were triggered events centered in northeastern Kentucky or south-central Ohio were in fact centered in the New Madrid Seismic Zone.

Download or read book Types of Damage that Could Result from a Great Earthquake in the New Madrid Missouri Seismic Zone written by Margaret G. Hopper and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New Madrid Earthquake written by Myron L. Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Publications of the Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tecumseh s Prophecy written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plan for an intensified study of the New Madrid Seismic Zone.

Download or read book Studies in Seismicity and Earthquake Damage Statistics 1969 written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New Madrid Fault Finders Guide written by Ray Knox and published by Care Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strategy for National Earthquake Loss Reduction written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Earthquake Hazard Mitigation and Earthquake Insurance written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Earthquake Insurance and Hazard Mitigation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book U S Geological Survey Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: