Cascadia's Fault - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cascadia's Fault write by Jerry Thompson. This book was released on 2012-03-10. Cascadia's Fault available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A thrillingly rendered, yet “level–headed” look at the Cascadia Subduction Zone and the devastating natural disasters it promises (Booklist) There is a crack in the earth's crust that runs roughly 31 miles offshore, approximately 683 miles from Northern California up through Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has generated massive earthquakes over and over again throughout geologic time—at least thirty–six major events in the last 10,000 years. This fault generates a monster earthquake about every 500 years. And the monster is due to return at any time. It could happen 200 years from now, or it could be tonight. The Cascadia Subduction Zone is virtually identical to the offshore fault that wrecked Sumatra in 2004. It will generate the same earthquake we saw in Sumatra, at magnitude nine or higher, sending crippling shockwaves across a far wider area than any California quake. Slamming into Sacramento, Portland, Seattle, Victoria, and Vancouver, it will send tidal waves to the shores of Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, damaging the economies of the Pacific Rim countries and their trading partners for years to come. In light of recent massive quakes in Haiti, Chile, and Mexico, Cascadia's Fault not only tells the story of this potentially devastating earthquake and the tsunamis it will spawn, it also warns us about an impending crisis almost unprecedented in modern history.
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 write by Brian F. Atwater. This book was released on 2016-04-18. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted having felt no earthquake; they wondered what had set off the waves but had no way of knowing that the tsunami was spawned during an earthquake along the coast of northwestern North America. This orphan tsunami would not be linked to its parent earthquake until the mid-twentieth century, through an extraordinary series of discoveries in both North America and Japan. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700, now in its second edition, tells this scientific detective story through its North American and Japanese clues. The story underpins many of today�s precautions against earthquake and tsunami hazards in the Cascadia region of northwestern North America. The Japanese tsunami of March 2011 called attention to these hazards as a mirror image of the transpacific waves of January 1700. Hear Brian Atwater on NPR with Renee Montagne http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629401
Cascadia
Cascadia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cascadia write by H. W. Buzz Bernard. This book was released on 2016-07-11. Cascadia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. EPIC Award Winner If you live in the Pacific Northwest, get ready to run for your life . . . In the face of a massive earthquake and tsunami in the Pacific Northwest, a respected geologist must make two gut-wrenching decisions. One could cost him his reputation, the other, his life. Is the Northwest overdue for a huge quake and tsunami, or will the region remain safe for hundreds of years yet to come? No one knows... or does someone? Dr. Rob Elwood, a geologist whose specialty is earthquakes and tsunamis, is having nightmares of "the big one" that are way too real to disregard. His friend, a counselor and retired reverend, does not think Rob is going nuts. To the contrary, he believes the dreams are premonitions to be taken seriously. No one else does, however, even after a press conference. Some live to regret it, most don't. Rob's drama becomes intertwined with others--a retired fighter pilot trying to make amends to a woman he jilted decades ago and a quixotic retiree searching for legendary buried treasure in the rugged coastal mountains of Oregon. All are about to live Rob's nightmare. "Riveting, scary, and entirely believable . . . a compelling, page-turning thriller with the ring of truth." Jerry Thompson, author of Cascadia's Fault H. W. "Buzz" Bernard, a native Oregonian born in Eugene and raised in Portland, is a best-selling, award-winning novelist. His debut novel, Eyewall, which one reviewer called a "perfect summer beach read," was released in May 2011 and went on to become a number-one best seller in Amazon's Kindle Store. Before becoming a novelist, Buzz worked at The Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia, as a senior meteorologist for thirteen years. Prior to that, he served as a weather officer in the U.S. Air Force for over three decades. He attained the rank of colonel and his "airborne" experiences include a mission with the Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunters, air drops over the Arctic Ocean and Turkey, and a stint as a weather officer aboard a Tactical Air Command airborne command post (C-135).
Natural Disasters and Risk Communication
Natural Disasters and Risk Communication - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural Disasters and Risk Communication write by C. Vail Fletcher. This book was released on 2018-05-23. Natural Disasters and Risk Communication available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Natural Disasters and Risk Communication: Implications of the Cascadia Subduction Zone Megaquake asks and addresses how we communicate about natural disasters and what effect our communication has on natural disaster education, understanding, assessment of risk, preparation, and recovery. The chapters of this book present expertise, analyses, and perspectives that are designed to help us better comprehend and deal with the natural risks such as the Cascadia Subduction Zone. It seeks to move past primal, fear-induced physiological and emotional responses to crises with the understanding that if we accept that the disaster will occur, expect it, and learn how we can prepare, we can calm the collective panicked beats of our hearts as we wait for its first tremors.
Late Holocene Coseismic Subsidence and Coincident Tsunamis, Southern Cascadia Subduction Zone, Hookton Slough, WIGI (Humboldt Bay), California
Late Holocene Coseismic Subsidence and Coincident Tsunamis, Southern Cascadia Subduction Zone, Hookton Slough, WIGI (Humboldt Bay), California - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Late Holocene Coseismic Subsidence and Coincident Tsunamis, Southern Cascadia Subduction Zone, Hookton Slough, WIGI (Humboldt Bay), California write by Jason Robert Patton. This book was released on 2004. Late Holocene Coseismic Subsidence and Coincident Tsunamis, Southern Cascadia Subduction Zone, Hookton Slough, WIGI (Humboldt Bay), California available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
