Disaster Deferred: A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone

by Seth Stein

Book Overview

In the winter of 1811-12, a series of large earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone-often incorrectly described as the biggest ever to hit the United States-shook the Midwest. Today the federal government ranks the hazard in the Midwest as high as California's and is pressuring communities to undertake expensive preparations for disaster. Coinciding with the two-hundredth anniversary of the New Madrid earthquakes, Disaster Deferred revisits these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231151381
• ISBN13: 9780231151382
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher