Sandi Doughton
Autor de Full-Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest
Sobre El Autor
Sandi Doughton is a science reporter at The Seattle Times. She got her start in journalism at The Los Alamos Monitor-a small daily newspaper in the town where the atomic bomb was born. She has also worked at The Santa Fe New Mexican and The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington. She lives in Seattle.
Obras de Sandi Doughton
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 98
- Popularidad
- #193,038
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 5
"No one in the past three hundred years has witnessed a Cascadia megaquake, Not a single soul in the past millennium has weathered a rupture on the Seattle Fault. But hundreds of thousands of people across the Northwest have stories to tell about the third type of earthquake that strikes the region: deep quakes like the one that struck between Olympia and Seattle in 2001"
Now that we're leaving Seattle I am letting to the forefront my earthquake fears, which have been bubbling subconsciously during the 30+ years we have lived here. This book will set no one's fears to rest. It is a history of the geologic and scientific discoveries of the last 30-40 years which have deepened our knowledge of past and potential earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest, otherwise known as the Cascadia subduction zone. There are explanations as to why future earthquakes in this area are likely to be much more powerful and have more dire consequences than quakes in any other part of the continental United States. While no one knows for sure, the consensus belief is that the Pacific Northwest is due or overdue for either a subduction quake or a fault quake, either of which would be devastating, rather than the more run of the mill deep quakes, which are the only kind that have occurred in recorded history here. There's also lots of information about tsunamis, and a discussion about the building code requirements that have been put into place for earthquake protection and whether they will in fact be effective should (or when) a megaquake occurs.
This book probably would appeal to a limited readership, but I found it informative and chilling.
3 stars… (más)