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Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith
Penguin
July 2010
On Sale: June 26, 2005
304 pages
ISBN: 0143035258
EAN: 9780143035251
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Non-Fiction
Earthquakes are one of the great unsolved geological
mysteries. Attempts to predict them have ranged from
studies of California’s fault lines by USGS geologists to
the work of an odd assortment of psychics and apocalyptics
who base their sometimes startlingly accurate forecasts on
everything from changes in the earth’s magnetic fields to
the behavior of whales. The Myth of Solid Ground is
a journey, both personal and cultural, through the world of
earthquakes and earthquake prediction, one that seeks a
middle ground between science and superstition, while also
looking for a larger context in which seismicity might make
sense. An excellent primer on the science of seismology,
The Myth of Solid Ground looks at earthquakes as the
ultimate metaphor for living with impending disaster.
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