Earthquakes in Human History (eBook)

The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions

Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, Donald Theodore Sanders (Autoren)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23420-5 (ISBN)

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On November 1, 1755--All Saints' Day--a massive earthquake struck Europe's Iberian Peninsula and destroyed the city of Lisbon. Churches collapsed upon thousands of worshippers celebrating the holy day. Earthquakes in Human History tells the story of that calamity and other epic earthquakes. The authors, Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders, recapture the power of their previous book, Volcanoes in Human History. They vividly explain the geological processes responsible for earthquakes, and they describe how these events have had long-lasting aftereffects on human societies and cultures. Their accounts are enlivened with quotations from contemporary literature and from later reports.In the chaos following the Lisbon quake, government and church leaders vied for control. The Marques de Pombal rose to power and became a virtual dictator. As a result, the Roman Catholic Jesuit Order lost much of its influence in Portugal. Voltaire wrote his satirical work Candide to refute the philosophy of optimism, the belief that God had created a perfect world. And the 1755 earthquake sparked the search for a scientific understanding of natural disasters.Ranging from an examination of temblors mentioned in the Bible, to a richly detailed account of the 1906 catastrophe in San Francisco, to Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, to the Peruvian earthquake in 1970 (the Western Hemisphere's greatest natural disaster), this book is an unequaled testament to a natural phenomenon that can be not only terrifying but also threatening to humankind's fragile existence, always at risk because of destructive powers beyond our control.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.8.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Science Library
• Zusatzinfo: 39 halftones. 5 line illus. 2 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1755 Lisbon earthquake • 1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes • 1906 San Francisco earthquake • 1923 Great Kanto earthquake • 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake • Active fault • After the quake • Age of Discovery • Andean civilizations • Augusto César Sandino • Battle of Armageddon (Left Behind) • Books of Kings • British Geological Survey • Calaveras Fault • cape mendocino • Cataclysm (Dragonlance) • city-state • Conflagration • Conglomerate (geology) • continental crust • Crust (geology) • Dead Sea • debris flow • disaster • Disaster Recovery • earth • Earthquake • Earthquake Prediction • Fault (geology) • fire department • Flood • foreshock • Fracture • Fracture zone • geologist • Geology • Greek Mythology • Halite • Hayward Fault Zone • high pressure • Honshu • Hoover Dam • Hypocenter • igneous rock • Judea (Roman province) • landslide • Lava • Mercalli Intensity Scale • metamorphic rock • mid-Atlantic ridge • Mission District, San Francisco • natural disaster • Nebukawa Station • New Madrid Seismic Zone • Nicaragua • North America • north american plate • Oceanic Crust • oil field • Pacific Ocean • pacific plate • Peloponnesian League • Peloponnesian War • Plate Tectonics • President of the United States • Refugee • Refugee camp • Richter magnitude scale • Rift Valley • Rift zone • rockfall • Rocky Mountain Arsenal • Sagami Bay • salt dome • San Andreas Fault • Sandinista National Liberation Front • Sediment • sedimentary rock • seismic gap • Seismic hazard • Seismic Wave • Seismology • Seismometer • Stone Building • Structural basin • structural engineer • subduction • Subsidence • Tenskwatawa • thermopylae • thrust fault • Trojan War • Tropical Cyclone • Tsunami • Types of volcanic eruptions • united states geological survey • volcanic rock • volcano • War of attrition • Yokohama
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23420-5 / 0691234205
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23420-5 / 9780691234205