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The Politics of Earthquake Prediction is a suspenseful account of what happens when scientists predict an enormous earthquake for a specific day--an earthquake that did not, in this instance, happen, but which, if it had, would have been one of the most destructive of our century. Working in a field where uncertainty abounds, Dr. Brian Brady of the U.S. Bureau of Mines and Dr. William Spence of the U.S. Geological Survey gradually came to the conclusion that a catastrophic quake would occur on June 28, 1981, off the coast of central Peru, near the great population center of Lima-Callao. Their research was based on a theory challenging scientific notions widely accepted in the seismological "establishment." This book is a fast-paced but thorough and sensitive description of how this scientific dispute became a political controversy. The work portrays in detail the struggles of scientists and government officials in both the United States and Peru attempting to "do the right thing" as the target date approached. The authors emphasize the political, economic, and moral dilemmas of earthquake prediction, the impact of the media, and the potentially drastic consequences of ignoring a valid prediction. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning The environment Natural disasters

• Celý názov: Politics of Earthquake Prediction
• Autor: Joanne M. Nigg, Bruno Podesta, Richard S. Olson
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 200
• EAN: 9780691608020
• ISBN: 0691608024
• ID: 04642673
• Nakladateľ: Princeton University Press
• Hmotnosť: 306 g
• Rozmery: 236 × 156 × 11 mm
• Dátum vydania: 14. July 2014

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