Clive Gifford: The Shattering History of Earthquakes, Gebunden

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Find out about these amazing natural phenomena and see how they happen, where and why they occur, and how they are measured and studied. Discover the fascinating stories that people in the past told to explain earthquakes. Learn how seismologists are using new technology to help them predict when and where a quake might strike. Read about the scale of earthquakes and at some famous and deadly earthquakes in history and the more recent past. Finally find out about quakes that are out of this world.

The consultant is Director of the Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment (CURBE) and she has actively engaged with earthquakeaffected communities around the world.