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Earthquakes in Human History

Earthquakes in Human History

The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions

Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, Donald Theodore Sanders

278 pages, parution le 27/12/2006

Résumé

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 Marquês 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.

L'auteur - Jelle Zeilinga de Boer

Jelle Zeilinga de Boer is the Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science at Wesleyan University. His publications include work on the geodynamic evolution of the Appalachians, Costa Rica, Greece, Panama, and the Philippines.

L'auteur - Donald Theodore Sanders

Donald Theodore Sanders has worked as a petroleum geologist, a science editor for encyclopedias, and an editor of corporate scientific publications. Before retiring from IBM, he created and edited that company's award-winning academic magazine Perspectives in Computing.

Sommaire

  • Earthquakes: Origins and Consequences
  • In the Holy Land: Earthquakes and the Hand of God
  • The Decline of Ancient Sparta: A Tale of Hoplites, Helots, and a Quaking Earth
  • Earthquakes in England: Echoes in Religion and Literature
  • The Great Lisbon Earthquake and the Axiom "Whatever Is, Is Right"
  • New Madrid, Missouri, in 1811: The Once and Future Disaster
  • Earthquake, Fire, and Politics in San Francisco
  • Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake: "Hell Let Loose on Earth"
  • Peru in 1970: Chaos in the Andes
  • The 1972 Managua Earthquake: Catalyst for Revolution
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Éditeur(s) Princeton University Press
Auteur(s) Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, Donald Theodore Sanders
Parution 27/12/2006
Nb. de pages 278
Format 15,5 x 23,5
Couverture Broché
Poids 435g
Intérieur Noir et Blanc
EAN13 9780691127866
ISBN13 978-0-691-12786-6

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