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Earthquake Disasters in Latin America (Record no. 25093)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789400728103
978-94-007-2810-3
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Classification number GB5000-5030
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Classification number 551
Edition number 23
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-- Dordrecht :
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-- 2012.
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Personal name Castaños, Heriberta.
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Title Earthquake Disasters in Latin America
Medium [electronic resource] :
Remainder of title A Holistic Approach /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Heriberta Castaños, Cinna Lomnitz.
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Extent VIII, 65p. 14 illus., 12 illus. in color.
Other physical details online resource.
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Title SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences,
International Standard Serial Number 2191-5369
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 1. Darwin and plate tectonics -- 2. The great 1960 Chile earthquake -- 3. The 1967 Caracas earthquake.-  4. The 1970 Peru earthquake -- 5. The 1985 Mexico earthquake -- 6. The 2010 Haiti earthquake -- 7. The 2010 Chile earthquake -- 8. A list of significant earthquakes in Latin America -- 9. Conclusions and recommendations.
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Summary, etc This book is an attempt to demonstrate the analytical power of the holistic approach for understanding disasters.   Six major earthquakes in Latin America are used as an example: the general idea is to place disasters in a broad social and regional context.  Understanding disasters is a way of understanding the social system.  The idea is to show that every major disaster is unique and different.  Statistical methods may be useful for purposes of risk estimation but modern disasters are "systemic" and complex.  In the chapter on the 2010 Chile earthquake we discuss the tsunami and why the system of tsunami alert did not work.  The introductory chapter contains some basics of seismology (plate tectonics) and earthquake engineering.  The 1985 Mexico earthquake describes why geology is important.   Why was Mexico City founded in a lake?  Technology must be adapted to the environment, not "imported" from possibly more advanced but different societies.  The 1970 Peru earthquake is an example of disaster in a unique environment.  Caracas 1967 takes us on a survey of different engineering solutions.  And the 1960 Chile earthquake leads us on a retrospective survey--what has changed in Chile between the two major Chile earthquakes?  A discussion on Charles Darwin’s observations of the 1835 Chile earthquake provides a fitting summary.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Geography.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Geology.
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Personal name Lomnitz, Cinna.
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Title Springer eBooks
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Display text Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9789400728097
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2810-3
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Source of classification or shelving scheme
Item type E-Book
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2014-04-09AUM Main Library2014-04-09 2014-04-09 E-Book   AUM Main Library551
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