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Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'New York Times' bestselling author, explorer, journalist, and geologist Simon Winchester who's been shaken by earthquakes in New Zealand, skied through Greenland to help prove the theory of plate tectonics, and even charred the soles of his boots climbing a volcano looks at the science, technology, and societal impact of these inter-connected natural phenomena"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"From the first earthquake David L. Ulin experienced in San Francisco at age eighteen, he was fascinated with the daily lives of Californians, who seem to be going about their business with just an occasional rumbling interruption. But these tectonic shifts could easily wreak cataclysmic havoc, just as they did in the great earthquake of 1906. In The Myth of Solid Ground, Ulin explores how an unlikely collection of scientists, psychics, and apocalyptics...
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 5
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 108
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Center]
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Emergency funds distributed through Rome resulting in an art vs. people controversy. Victims and local governments were not consulted on allocation of relief funds.
Author
Series
Natural hazard research working paper volume 36
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado]
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 20
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 160
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Center]
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The present project examined psychological functioning four weeks after a major earthquake. Of special interest was the prevalence of symptoms associated with acute stress disorder.
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 18
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 94
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Center]
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
The purpose of this study was to visit one ethnically diverse community in southern California, to observe the role that the new information handbook played in educating the public of its risk to the earthquake hazard.
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 54
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 16
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 11
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 29
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 28
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster—Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for...
Author
Series
Working paper volume 70
Publisher
Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
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