Early Earthquakes Of The Americas

Author : Robert Louis Kovach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521824893

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Early Earthquakes of the Americas by Robert Louis Kovach Pdf

There is emerging interest amongst researchers from various subject areas in understanding the interplay of earthquake and volcanic occurrences, archaeology and history. This discipline has become known as archeoseismology. Ancient earthquakes often leave their mark in the myths, legends, and literary accounts of ancient peoples, the stratigraphy of their historical sites, and the structural integrity of their constructions. Such information leads to a better understanding of the irregularities in the time-space patterns of earthquake and volcanic occurrences and whether they could have been a factor contributing to some of the enigmatic catastrophes in ancient times. This book focuses on the historical earthquakes of North and South America, and describes the effects those earthquakes have had with illustrated examples of recent structural damage at archaeological sites. It is written at a level that will appeal to students and researchers in the fields of earth science, archaeology, and history.

Author : Jonathan Todd Hancock
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469662190

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Convulsed States by Jonathan Todd Hancock Pdf

The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Great Plains to the Atlantic Coast and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a broad cast of thinkers struggled to explain these seemingly unprecedented natural phenomena. They summoned a range of traditions of inquiry into the natural world and drew connections among signs of environmental, spiritual, and political disorder on the cusp of the War of 1812. Drawn from extensive archival research, Convulsed States probes their interpretations to offer insights into revivalism, nation remaking, and the relationship between religious and political authority across Native nations and the United States in the early nineteenth century. With a compelling narrative and rigorous comparative analysis, Jonathan Todd Hancock uses the earthquakes to bridge historical fields and shed new light on this pivotal era of nation remaking. Through varied peoples' efforts to come to grips with the New Madrid earthquakes, Hancock reframes early nineteenth-century North America as a site where all of its inhabitants wrestled with fundamental human questions amid prophecies, political reinventions, and war.

Author : Kaye M. Shedlock,Louis Charles Pakiser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : PSU:000032874525

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Earthquakes by Kaye M. Shedlock,Louis Charles Pakiser Pdf

Author : Conevery Bolton Valencius
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226053929

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The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes by Conevery Bolton Valencius Pdf

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.

Author : John L. Casey
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781490779041

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Upheaval! by John L. Casey Pdf

The United States of America will likely be devastated by earthquakes within the next twenty years. That is the startling conclusion of the authors of this book, all of them leading experts in the geophysical effects of climate change. They make a strong case for a link between the suns cycles of behavior with highly destructive earthquakes. The authors explain that when the sun goes into a reduced energy phase, it produces colder weather and the worst earthquakes weve ever seen. Their easy-to-understand charts and graphs clearly show that we face an imminent threat. Find out the status of the threat for California, Alaska, South Carolina, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and other states and regionsas well as when and where the next catastrophic quakes will most likely strike. The authors also share the latest damage and loss-of-life assessments from the federal government, and they argue that were not doing enough to confront the threat. The United States could face up to $600 billion in damages, and tens of thousands of people could die beginning in 2017, they warn. Prepare yourself, your family, and your business for the most dangerous earthquakes youll ever face with Upheaval!

Author : Salvatore J. Lagumina
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1934844063

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The Great Earthquake by Salvatore J. Lagumina Pdf

The earthquake that struck the Messina Straits on December 28, 1908, was Europes most powerful catastrophe in modern times. It claimed the lives of approximately 200,000 people, including some American diplomats and tourists. This book provides important insight into many aspects of the calamity and its subsequent impact. It also lends us some perspective on more recent natural disasters, such as the Indonesian tsunami of 2004 Historian Salvatore LaGumina describes the remarkable responses of various nations and people that was an impressive display of cooperation and brotherhood among competing nations. This study constitutes the first comprehensive volume that specifically explores the extensive and admirable role played by the United States in aiding Italy in the wake of the distressful time. It is an important book that should be of interest to the general public and to people in many fields, including philanthropy, Italian American studies, military/naval history, Italian history, disaster studies, gilded age history, twentieth-century America.

Author : Kathryn Miles
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780698411463

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Quakeland by Kathryn Miles Pdf

A journey around the United States in search of the truth about the threat of earthquakes leads to spine-tingling discoveries, unnerving experts, and ultimately the kind of preparations that will actually help guide us through disasters. It’s a road trip full of surprises. Earthquakes. You need to worry about them only if you’re in San Francisco, right? Wrong. We have been making enormous changes to subterranean America, and Mother Earth, as always, has been making some of her own. . . . The consequences for our real estate, our civil engineering, and our communities will be huge because they will include earthquakes most of us do not expect and cannot imagine—at least not without reading Quakeland. Kathryn Miles descends into mines in the Northwest, dissects Mississippi levee engineering studies, uncovers the horrific risks of an earthquake in the Northeast, and interviews the seismologists, structual engineers, and emergency managers around the country who are addressing this ground shaking threat. As Miles relates, the era of human-induced earthquakes began in 1962 in Colorado after millions of gallons of chemical-weapon waste was pumped underground in the Rockies. More than 1,500 quakes over the following seven years resulted. The Department of Energy plans to dump spent nuclear rods in the same way. Evidence of fracking’s seismological impact continues to mount. . . . Humans as well as fault lines built our “quakeland”. What will happen when Memphis, home of FedEx's 1.5-million-packages-a-day hub, goes offline as a result of an earthquake along the unstable Reelfoot Fault? FEMA has estimated that a modest 7.0 magnitude quake (twenty of these happen per year around the world) along the Wasatch Fault under Salt Lake City would put a $33 billion dent in our economy. When the Fukushima reactor melted down, tens of thousands were displaced. If New York’s Indian Point nuclear power plant blows, ten million people will be displaced. How would that evacuation even begin? Kathryn Miles’ tour of our land is as fascinating and frightening as it is irresistibly compelling.

Author : John E. Farley
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0809322013

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Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America by John E. Farley Pdf

Reports the results of four surveys conducted in the New Madrid Seismic Zone before and after Iben Browning's false prediction of a major earthquake in December of 1990. Farley (sociology, Southern Illinois U. at Edwardsville) explores public reaction to Browning's pseudoscientific prediction and considers the long- term effects of the Browning prediction on earthquake awareness and preparedness in the region. The text includes many tables that summarize results from the four surveys. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Louis Pakiser,Kaye M. Shedlock
Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Earthquakes (Illustrations) by Louis Pakiser,Kaye M. Shedlock Pdf

Example in this ebook Earthquakes in History The scientific study of earthquakes is comparatively new. Until the 18th century, few factual descriptions of earthquakes were recorded, and the natural cause of earthquakes was little understood. Those who did look for natural causes often reached conclusions that seem fanciful today; one popular theory was that earthquakes were caused by air rushing out of caverns deep in the Earth’s interior. The earliest earthquake for which we have descriptive information occurred in China in 1177 B.C. The Chinese earthquake catalog describes several dozen large earthquakes in China during the next few thousand years. Earthquakes in Europe are mentioned as early as 580 B.C., but the earliest for which we have some descriptive information occurred in the mid-16th century. The earliest known earthquakes in the Americas were in Mexico in the late 14th century and in Peru in 1471, but descriptions of the effects were not well documented. By the 17th century, descriptions of the effects of earthquakes were being published around the world—although these accounts were often exaggerated or distorted. The most widely felt earthquakes in the recorded history of North America were a series that occurred in 1811-12 near New Madrid, Mo. A great earthquake, whose magnitude is estimated to be about 8, occurred on the morning of December 16, 1811. Another great earthquake occurred on January 23, 1812, and a third, the strongest yet, on February 7, 1812. Aftershocks were nearly continuous between these great earthquakes and continued for months afterwards. These earthquakes were felt by people as far away as Boston and Denver. Because the 3 most intense effects were in a sparsely populated region, the destruction of human life and property was slight. If just one of these enormous earthquakes occurred in the same area today, millions of people and buildings and other structures worth billions of dollars would be affected. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was one of the most destructive in the recorded history of North America—the earthquake and the fire that followed killed nearly 700 people and left the city in ruins. The Alaska earthquake of March 27, 1964, was of greater magnitude than the San Francisco earthquake; it released perhaps twice as much energy and was felt over an area of almost 500,000 square miles. The ground motion near the epicenter was so violent that the tops of some trees were snapped off. One hundred and fourteen people (some as far away as California) died as a result of this earthquake, but loss of life and property would have been far greater had Alaska been more densely populated. To be continue in this ebook

Author : James L. Penick
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0826203442

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The New Madrid Earthquakes by James L. Penick Pdf

Previously published as: The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-1812.

Author : N N Ambraseys,R D Adams
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781783261611

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The Seismicity of Central America by N N Ambraseys,R D Adams Pdf

This book is the outcome of a careful and detailed study of earthquakes in Central America. It combines information from felt effects and instrumental recordings to reassess the location and size of events since the beginning of the instrumental era. Early sections describe the techniques used, with particular emphasis on the determination of earthquake magnitude. The largest section comprises detailed descriptions of more than 700 of the more significant earthquakes, many accompanied by maps of the felt effects. The main catalogue gives details of the location and size of more than 1800 events, with references to associated phenomena such as surface faulting, volcanism and tsunami generation. Contents:Instrumental Earthquake LocationDetermination of Earthquake SizeMacroseismic Information and LocationDescription of SeismicityAppendices:Case Histories of EarthquakesParametric Catalogue of Earthquakes Readership: Graduate students in earth sciences and engineering, geologists, earthquake engineers, insurance industry and environmentalists.

Author : Irasema Alcántara-Ayala,Jean-Claude Thouret,Peng Cui,Marten Geertsema,Rodrigo Cienfuegos
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832503317

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Integrated Disaster Risk Management: From Earth Sciences to Policy Making by Irasema Alcántara-Ayala,Jean-Claude Thouret,Peng Cui,Marten Geertsema,Rodrigo Cienfuegos Pdf

Author : Robert C. Bell,Robert M. Ficociello
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628924633

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America's Disaster Culture by Robert C. Bell,Robert M. Ficociello Pdf

Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic? America's Disaster Culture offers answers to this question and a critical theory surrounding the culture of "natural†? disasters in American consumerism, literature, media, film, and popular culture. In a hyper-mediated global culture, disaster events reach us with great speed and minute detail, and Americans begin forming, interpreting, and historicizing catastrophes simultaneously with fellow citizens and people worldwide. America's Disaster Culture is not policy, management, or relief oriented. It offers an analytical framework for the cultural production and representation of disasters, catastrophes, and apocalypses in American culture. It focuses on filling a need for critical analysis centered upon the omnipresence of real and imagined disasters, epidemics, and apocalypses in American culture. However, it also observes events, such as the Dust Bowl, Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11, that are re-framed and re-historicized as "natural†? disasters by contemporary media and pop culture. Therefore, America's Disaster Culture theorizes the very parameters of classifying any event as a "natural†? disaster, addresses the biases involved in a catastrophic event's public narrative, and analyzes American culture's consumption of a disastrous event. Looking toward the future, what are the hypothetical and actual threats to disaster culture? Or, are we oblivious that we are currently living in a post-apocalyptic landscape?

Author : D. M. Boore
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788108525

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Estimation of Response Spectra and Peak Accelerations from Western North America Earthquakes by D. M. Boore Pdf

Charts and graphs.

Author : Henry Fountain
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101904060

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The Great Quake by Henry Fountain Pdf

On March 27, 1964, at 5-36 p.m., the biggest earthquake ever recorded in North America--and the second biggest ever in the world, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale--struck Alaska, devastating coastal towns and villages and killing more than 130 people in what was then a relatively sparsely populated region. In a riveting tale about the almost unimaginable brute force of nature, New York Times science journalist Henry Fountain, in his first trade book, re-creates the lives of the villagers and townspeople living in Chenega, Anchorage, and Valdez; describes the sheer beauty of the geology of the region, with its towering peaks and 20-mile-long glaciers; and reveals the impact of the quake on the towns, the buildings, and the lives of the inhabitants. George Plafker, a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey with years of experience scouring the Alaskan wilderness, is asked to investigate the Prince William Sound region in the aftermath of the quake, to better understand its origins. His work confirmed the then controversial theory of plate tectonics that explained how and why such deadly quakes occur, and how we can plan for the next one.