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Summary
Summary
Providing the first worldwide survey of active earthquake faults, this book focuses on those described as 'seismic time bombs' - with the potential to destroy large cities in the developing world such as Port au Prince, Kabul, Tehran and Caracas. Leading international earthquake expert, Robert Yeats, explores both the regional and plate-tectonic context of active faults, providing the background for seismic hazard evaluation in planning large-scale projects such as nuclear power plants or hydroelectric dams. He also highlights work done in more advanced seismogenic countries like Japan, the United States, New Zealand and China, providing an important basis for upgrading building standards and other laws in developing nations. The book also explores the impact of major quakes on social development through history. It will form an accessible reference for analysts and consulting firms, and a convenient overview for academics and students of geoscience, geotechnical engineering and civil engineering, and land-use planning.
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Because large earthquakes on any given fault are infrequent, seismologists, geologists, and earthquake engineers studying a specific fault to learn about its tectonics and earthquake hazards look to similar faults elsewhere for analogies. The difficulty is getting into the scientific literature about a fault--where does one start? Yeats (emer., Oregon State Univ.) provides that starting point via a global discussion of active faults, giving a clear overview of their tectonic setting and earthquake history with useful figures and a good set of references for more information. The book contains a short overview of techniques for active fault studies in the first chapter; the remaining nine chapters then survey the world's fault systems in various geographic regions. The insightful discussion reflects the author's considerable experience worldwide. The book is complementary to Yeats's valuable textbook, coauthored with K. Sieh and C. Allen, The Geology of Earthquakes (1997). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers. S. Stein Northwestern University
Table of Contents
| Introduction |
| 1 Methods and background |
| 2 Introduction to North America: the Pacific-North America plate boundary |
| 3 San Andreas System and basin and range |
| 4 Caribbean Plate and Middle America subduction zone |
| 5 South America |
| 6 Africa, Arabia, and Western Europe |
| 7 Eastern Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and the Middle East |
| 8 India, the Himalaya, Mainland China, and Central Asia |
| 9 Japan and the Western Pacific |
| 10 Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands |
| References |
| Index |
