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Folded Sediment Unusual In Sumatran Tsunami Area (February 4, 2007) -- Sediment folding may have added to the exceptionally large tsunami that struck Sumatra on December 26, 2004, according to an international team of ... > full story

Sumatra Earthquake: New Data Overturn Common View That Great Earthquakes Only Occur In Fast, Young Subduction Zones (January 10, 2007) -- The 2004 earthquake is the focus of the January special issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA), in which scientists present research and analyses about the current state ... > full story

Deadly Wave: Researchers Learn From Analyses Of Rare Tsunami Earthquake (December 27, 2006) -- Analyses of a classic, slow-rupturing tsunami earthquake whose massive waves devastated the coast of Java, Indonesia, this past summer are providing insight to seismologists and engineers, who want ... > full story

Living Coral Reefs Provide Better Protection From Tsunami Waves (December 19, 2006) -- Healthy coral reefs provide their adjacent coasts with substantially more protection from destructive tsunami waves than do unhealthy or dead reefs, a Princeton University study suggests. Initially ... > full story

Discovery Sheds New Light On Cause Of Earthquakes (December 14, 2006) -- Research at the University of Liverpool into a large fault zone in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile has produced new insight into how fluid pressure can cause ... > full story

Mapping The Wake Of A Pending Quake: Another Sumatra Tsunami Likely In Coming Decades (December 8, 2006) -- Research into ancient earthquakes by scientists at USC and Caltech shows that within the next few decades another tsunami from another giant earthquake is likely to flood densely populated sections ... > full story

Powerful Earthquakes Can Be Detected Within Two Seconds (December 5, 2006) -- Could a few seconds warning of an impending strong earthquake be of practical use in mitigating its effects? Scientists, engineers, and first responders say yes, and now such warnings may be ... > full story

Landslide At Mt. Etna Generated A Large Tsunami In The Mediterranean Sea Nearly 8000 Years Ago (November 28, 2006) -- Geological evidence indicates that the eastern flanks of Mt. Etna volcano, located on Italy's island of Sicily, suffered at least one large collapse nearly 8,000 years ... > full story

Area Of Influence Of Earthquakes Could Be Larger Than Currently Thought (November 27, 2006) -- A Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona researcher, studying the relationships between the time and place of earthquake occurrences using statistical physics methods, has concluded that the area of ... > full story

New Research Reveals Hidden Earthquake Trouble Spots (November 8, 2006) -- A team from the University of Leicester has used a powerful laser mounted on an aircraft to uncover earthquake fault lines that are hidden by forest cover and never before seen by earth scientists. ... > full story

Ground Frequency Recovery After Strong Earthquakes (November 7, 2006) -- Because earthquake shock sometimes decreases the frequency at which the ground vibrates, especially at soft soil sites, the strength of strong ground motion during an earthquake is an important ... > full story

Joining Forces To Predict Tsunamis: Pan-European Approach To Disaster Prevention (November 7, 2006) -- Following a series of well documented natural disasters with grave human and economic consequences, the ability to predict these devastating events has once more come to the fore as a research ... > full story

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A Crack in the Edge of the World : America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
Geologically speaking, 1906 was a violent year: powerful, destructive earthquakes shook the ground from Taiwan to South America, while in Italy, Mount Vesuvius erupted. And in San Francisco, a large ... > read more

Isaac's Storm : A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History (Vintage)
On September 8, 1900, a massive hurricane slammed into Galveston, Texas. A tidal surge of some four feet in as many seconds inundated the city, while the wind destroyed thousands of buildings. By the ... > read more

Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
What Hurricane Katrina reveals about the fault lines of race and poverty in America-and what lessons we must take from the flood-from best-selling "hip-hop intellectual" Michael Eric Dyson Does ... > read more

Earth: Portrait of a Planet
This survey is the first to weave together the three major intellectual revolutions in the Earth Sciences that have occurred in the last forty years--the theory of plate tectonics, the ... > read more

SuperFoods Rx : Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life
The super-bestselling book that'senhancing Americans' health By eating the fourteen SuperFoods highlighted in Dr. Steven Pratt's instant bestseller, you can actually stop the incremental ... > read more

Protecting the Gift : Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)
Be warned: In many ways this is a terrifying book. It deals with a subject--violence against children--that most of us never want to consider. But, as Gavin de Becker stresses, such situations, ... > read more

Fear Less: Real Truth About Risk, Safety, and Security in a Time of Terrorism
In this age of uncertainty we are all looking for answers. Every day we cope with another report. Anthrax in New York, Florida and Washington, D.C. Arrests nationwide. Threats from Afghanistan. While ... > read more

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
In this new edition, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first civilization.The world faces numerous environmental trends of disruption and decline such as rising ... > read more

Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Really Dangerous in the World Around You
An indispensable and timely guide, Risk is the authority for assessing threats to your health and safety.We continually face new risks in our world. This essential family reference will help you ... > read more

The Winds of Change : Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
The Winds of Change places the horrifying carnage unleashed on New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama by Hurricane Katrina in context.Climate has been humanity's constant, if moody, companion. At ... > read more