California earthquakes [electronic resource] : science, risk, & the politics of hazard mitigation / Carl-Henry Geschwind.

By: Geschwind, Carl-Henry, 1965-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001Description: xi, 348 pISBN: 0801873606 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Earthquake hazard analysis -- California -- History | Earthquakes -- California -- Safety measures -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.34/95/09794 LOC classification: QE535.2.U6 | G485 2001Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Reactions to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 -- Setting up a scientific infrastructure : seismology California style, 1910-1925 -- Bailey Willis and the promotion of earthquake safety in the mid-1920s -- Engineering a regulatory-state apparatus : seismic safety in the 1930s -- Earthquake experts and the Cold War state -- New initiatives for earthquake preparedness, 1964-1971 -- Seismic politics : responses to the San Fernando earthquake of 1971 -- Pushing prediction : establishment of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program -- The regulatory-state apparatus in action.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-316) and index.

Reactions to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 -- Setting up a scientific infrastructure : seismology California style, 1910-1925 -- Bailey Willis and the promotion of earthquake safety in the mid-1920s -- Engineering a regulatory-state apparatus : seismic safety in the 1930s -- Earthquake experts and the Cold War state -- New initiatives for earthquake preparedness, 1964-1971 -- Seismic politics : responses to the San Fernando earthquake of 1971 -- Pushing prediction : establishment of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program -- The regulatory-state apparatus in action.

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