The Politics of Earthquake Prediction

Resource Information

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Label

The Politics of Earthquake Prediction

Creator

• Olson, Richard Stuart, 1946-

Contributor

• Podestá, Bruno, 1946-
• Nigg, Joanne M

Subject

• Peru -- Foreign relations -- United States
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
• Peru
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
• United States -- Foreign relations -- Peru
• Earthquake prediction -- Political aspects
• Diplomatic relations
• United States
• Earthquake prediction -- Political aspects
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General

Language

eng

Summary

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-Call

Member of

• Princeton legacy library

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Dewey number

363.3/495

Index

no index present

LC call number

QE538.8

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Princeton Legacy Library