Earthquakes in Human History
ISBN: 9780691127866
RM231.66
Publisher,Princeton Univ Pr
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Format, Paperback
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No. of Pages, 278
The geological processes that are responsible for earthquakes and how they have had long-lasting aftereffects on human societies and cultures are explained in an account of calamitous earthquakes and their repercussions, from temblors described in the Bible to the 1906 San Francisco catastrophe to quakes in Japan in 1923 and Peru in 1970.
