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Language: en
Pages: 346
Pages: 346
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
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Language: en
Pages: 346
Pages: 346
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-05 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
Reaching from the Meiji Restoration to the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, Clancy's innovative study not only moves earthquakes nearer to the centre of modern J
Language: en
Pages: 316
Pages: 316
Type: BOOK - Published: 1974 - Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
Language: en
Pages: 400
Pages: 400
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-09 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
In September 1923, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake devastated eastern Japan, killing more than 120,000 people and leaving two million homeless. Using a rich array of
Language: en
Pages: 197
Pages: 197
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-09 - Publisher: National Academies Press
The United States will certainly be subject to damaging earthquakes in the future. Some of these earthquakes will occur in highly populated and vulnerable areas