Early Earthquakes of the Americas

ISBN-13: 9780521824897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 286 str.

Robert Kovach; Robert L. Kovach

Opis

There is emerging interest among researchers from various subject areas in understanding the interplay of earthquake and volcanic occurrences, archaeology and history through the discipline of archaeoseismology. This book focuses on the historical earthquakes of North and South America, and describes the effects of those earthquakes, using illustrated examples of recent structural damage at archaeological sites.

Recenzje

'Sleuthing out the occurrence of prehistoric earthquakes has a practical value. It provides data about the frequency and intensity of earthquakes along known faults, improving the understanding of the risks there. So it's an area of serious, important academic pursuit. But it's also way cool. And its especially cool when piecing together the prehistoric earthquakes of the Americas which, Robert Kovach points out, are often shrouded in the myth and mystery of the early people here … All of this and more is included in this interesting volume that digs deeply into the earthquake history of the Americas over the last five hundred years or so.' Dan Whipple, The Observer

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Earthquake mosaic of the Americas; 3. Myths and legends; 4. Earthquake effects; 5. Earthquakes of Mexico; 6. Earthquakes in the Maya Empire; 7. Earthquakes of Costa Rica, Panama and Columbia; 8. Earthquakes of Peru and Chile; 9. Early California earthquakes; 10. Earthquakes of the northern American cordillera; 11. Earthquakes of eastern and central North America; 12. Conclusions and speculations; Appendix A. Data relating magnitude to extent of Modified Mercalli intensity of VII; Appendix B. Data relating magnitude to extent of Modified Mercalli intensity of > VI, Mexican earthquakes; Appendix C. Rossi–Forel seismic intensity scale; Glossary; Bibliographic summaries; References; Index.