Quakeland : on the road to America's next devastating earthquake / Kathryn Miles.
Quakeland : on the road to America's next devastating earthquake / Kathryn Miles.
Quakeland : on the road to America's next devastating earthquake / Kathryn Miles.
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New York, New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
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G 2017/5048
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English
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Physical content
viii, 357 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Their campsite, our core -- A beautiful place for an earthquake -- Coffee in Salt Lake -- Our floating world -- Cold storage -- Dam busting with Sensurround G-forces! -- The Big Muddy -- Thank God for FedEx -- The Lucky Friday mine -- Digging back East -- Our ingenious wells -- The earthquake fighte...
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Publisher
New York, New York : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
Earthquakes. You only need to worry about them if you're in San Francisco, right? Wrong. We have been making enormous changes to subterranean America, and Mother Earth, as always, has been making some of her own. The consequences for our real estate, our civil engineering, and our communities will be huge because they will include earthquakes most...
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Quakeland : on the road to America's next devastating earthquake / Kathryn Miles.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-350) and index.
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Online version: Miles, Kathryn, 1974- Quakeland. New York, New York : Dutton, [2017] 9780698411463 (DLC) 2017022673
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©2017
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G 2017/5048
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74VKVgZQW06d
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgZQW06d
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ISBN
0525955186 (hardcover)
9780525955184 (hardcover)
DDC
551.220973
MMS ID
991024142815502626
