Title California earthquakes : science, risk, and the politics of hazard mitigation / Carl-Henry Geschwind.

Publication Info.	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2001]
	©2001

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Description	1 online resource (x, 337 pages) : map
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-316) and index.
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 -- Pushing prediction: the establishment of the national earthquake hazards reduction -- Program -- The regulatory state apparatus in action.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject	Earthquake hazard analysis -- California -- History.
	Earthquake hazard analysis.
	California.
	History.
	Earthquakes -- California -- Safety measures -- History.
	Earthquakes.
	Industrial safety.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Geschiedenis (vorm)
Other Form:	Print version: Geschwind, Carl-Henry, 1965- California earthquakes. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2001 0801865964 (DLC) 00010627 (OCoLC)44720748
ISBN	0801873606 (electronic book)
	9780801873607 (electronic book)
	9780801865961 (alkaline paper)
	0801865964 (alkaline paper)