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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Emergency Management, Intergovernmental Relations, and the District of Columbia
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jon Mooallem
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0525509925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together “A powerful, heart-wrenching book, as much art as it is journalism.”—The Wall Street Journal “A beautifully wrought and profoundly joyful story of compassion and perseverance.”—BuzzFeed (Best Books of the Year) In the spring of 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis—the largest, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. But just before sundown on Good Friday, the community was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history, a catastrophic 9.2 on the Richter Scale. For four and a half minutes, the ground lurched and rolled. Streets cracked open and swallowed buildings whole. And once the shaking stopped, night fell and Anchorage went dark. The city was in disarray and sealed off from the outside world. Slowly, people switched on their transistor radios and heard a familiar woman’s voice explaining what had just happened and what to do next. Genie Chance was a part-time radio reporter and working mother who would play an unlikely role in the wake of the disaster, helping to put her fractured community back together. Her tireless broadcasts over the next three days would transform her into a legendary figure in Alaska and bring her fame worldwide—but only briefly. That Easter weekend in Anchorage, Genie and a cast of endearingly eccentric characters—from a mountaineering psychologist to the local community theater group staging Our Town—were thrown into a jumbled world they could not recognize. Together, they would make a home in it again. Drawing on thousands of pages of unpublished documents, interviews with survivors, and original broadcast recordings, This Is Chance! is the hopeful, gorgeously told story of a single catastrophic weekend and proof of our collective strength in a turbulent world. There are moments when reality instantly changes—when the life we assume is stable gets upended by pure chance. This Is Chance! is an electrifying and lavishly empathetic portrayal of one community rising above the randomness, a real-life fable of human connection withstanding chaos.
Author: Henry Fountain
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1101904062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn March 27, 1964, at 5-36 p.m., the biggest earthquake ever recorded in North America--and the second biggest ever in the world, measuring 9.2 on the Richter scale--struck Alaska, devastating coastal towns and villages and killing more than 130 people in what was then a relatively sparsely populated region. In a riveting tale about the almost unimaginable brute force of nature, New York Times science journalist Henry Fountain, in his first trade book, re-creates the lives of the villagers and townspeople living in Chenega, Anchorage, and Valdez; describes the sheer beauty of the geology of the region, with its towering peaks and 20-mile-long glaciers; and reveals the impact of the quake on the towns, the buildings, and the lives of the inhabitants. George Plafker, a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey with years of experience scouring the Alaskan wilderness, is asked to investigate the Prince William Sound region in the aftermath of the quake, to better understand its origins. His work confirmed the then controversial theory of plate tectonics that explained how and why such deadly quakes occur, and how we can plan for the next one.
Author: Joy Griffin
Publisher: Wizard Works
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780962154379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of stories by people who lived through a 9.2 earthquake - some amusing anecdotes, some heart rending happenings, some terrifying tales.
Author: Lynn R. Sykes
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0231546874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe theory of plate tectonics transformed earth science. The hypothesis that the earth’s outermost layers consist of mostly rigid plates that move over an inner surface helped describe the growth of new seafloor, confirm continental drift, and explain why earthquakes and volcanoes occur in some places and not others. Lynn R. Sykes played a key role in the birth of plate tectonics, conducting revelatory research on earthquakes. In this book, he gives an invaluable insider’s perspective on the theory’s development and its implications. Sykes combines lucid explanation of how plate tectonics revolutionized geology with unparalleled personal reflections. He entered the field when it was on the cusp of radical discoveries. Studying the distribution and mechanisms of earthquakes, Sykes pioneered the identification of seismic gaps—regions that have not ruptured in great earthquakes for a long time—and methods to estimate the possibility of quake recurrence. He recounts the various phases of his career, including his antinuclear activism, and the stories of colleagues around the world who took part in changing the paradigm. Sykes delves into the controversies over earthquake prediction and their importance, especially in the wake of the giant 2011 Japanese earthquake and the accompanying Fukushima disaster. He highlights geology’s lessons for nuclear safety, explaining why historic earthquake patterns are crucial to understanding the risks to power plants. Plate Tectonics and Great Earthquakes is the story of a scientist witnessing a revolution and playing an essential role in making it.
Author: Jeffrey T. Freymueller
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-06-05
Total Pages: 1025
ISBN-13: 111867183X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 179. This multidisciplinary monograph provides the first modern integrative summary focused on the most spectacular active tectonic systems in North America. Encompassing seismology, tectonics, geology, and geodesy, it includes papers that summarize the state of knowledge, including background material for those unfamiliar with the region; address global hypotheses using data from Alaska; and test important global hypotheses using data from this region. It is organized around four major themes: subduction and great earthquakes at the Aleutian Arc, the transition from strike slip to accretion and subduction of the Yakutat microplate, the Denali fault and related structures and their role in accommodating permanent deformation of the overriding plate, and regional integration and large-scale models and the use of data from Alaska to address important global questions and hypotheses. The book's publication near the beginning of the National Science Foundation's EarthScope project makes it especially timely because Alaska is perhaps the least understood area within the EarthScope footprint, and interest in the region can be expected to rise with time as more EarthScope data become available.
Author: Brian F. Atwater
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2016-04-18
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0295998512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA puzzling tsunami entered Japanese history in January 1700. Samurai, merchants, and villagers wrote of minor flooding and damage. Some noted having felt no earthquake; they wondered what had set off the waves but had no way of knowing that the tsunami was spawned during an earthquake along the coast of northwestern North America. This orphan tsunami would not be linked to its parent earthquake until the mid-twentieth century, through an extraordinary series of discoveries in both North America and Japan. The Orphan Tsunami of 1700, now in its second edition, tells this scientific detective story through its North American and Japanese clues. The story underpins many of today�s precautions against earthquake and tsunami hazards in the Cascadia region of northwestern North America. The Japanese tsunami of March 2011 called attention to these hazards as a mirror image of the transpacific waves of January 1700. Hear Brian Atwater on NPR with Renee Montagne http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4629401
Author: Dwayne W. Anderson
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2014-12-18
Total Pages: 591
ISBN-13: 1491753188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf The COSMOS could be divided into QUADRANTS of CONSTELLATIONS, look for LIFE on OTHER PLANETS; in, QUADRANTS `-23, `-32; and, `-13!!!!!~ A NEW `-KIND OF NUMEROLOGY; CALLED PENDULUM FLOW - ITS WITH `-GODS INNER/OUTER WORKINGS `-WITH; AND, `-FROM; HIS `-DIVINE HOLY(-)SPIRIT!!!!!~ PENDULUM LEVEL = CHANGE!!!!!~ CHANCE = PENDULUM FLOW!!!!!~ PENDULUM FLOW = `-CLOCKWORK; OF, THE UNIVERSAL `-GODS; `-HOLY(-)SPIRIT!!!!!~ A NEW KIND OF `-NUMEROLOGY; THAT IS NOT, `-OF THE OCCULT; AS, IT IS NO LONGER CONCEALED; BUT IS REVEALED, `-BY `-GOD; AND, HIS DIVINE HOLY(-)SPIRIT; AND IS OF COURSE, OF A RIGHTEOUS; AND, `DIVINE `-INTERVENTION; `-OF `-GODS `-HAND-`!!!!!~ (IT IS THE GLORY OF `-GOD TO CONCEAL A MATTER, BUT THE `-GLORY OF KINGS IS TO SEARCH OUT A MATTER. (PROVERBS 25:2)!!!!!~ (=) RECIPROCAL-SEQUENCE -{(252)}-) `-WHOM, WAS TO BE `-SITTING; AT, THE RIGHT `HAND; OF `-GOD, `UPON; `-HIS RESURRECTION (=) `-JESUS CHRIST!!!!!~ `AND; `-WHOM, WAS `-EVERYTHING; `CREATED, `-WITH, AND; `-THROUGH (=) THE UNIVERSAL FATHER `-GODS SON (=) `-JESUS CHRIST!!!!!~ `-A; PENDULUM FLOW!!!!!~ There is the -THEORY of EVOLUTION!!!!!~ There is ALSO, The -THEORY; and/or, LAW; of CARDINAL NUMBERS!!!!!!~ These NUMBERS; ALL PROVE, -that; there, is `-a; -`UNIVERSAL `-GOD, `-that `-EXISTS!!!!!~ The `THEORY; and/or, `LAW of `CARDINAL NUMBERS!!!!!~ `-It `-BEATS; `-EVOLUTION-!!!!!~ `-GODS HOLY(-)SPIRIT (=) `-A/THE 360 INVERSE SPHERICAL/SPIRITUAL LAW OF FORCE!!!!!~ ({/}) `-A/THE 360 INVERSE SPHERICAL/SPIRITUAL LAW OF RECIPROCITY!!!!!~ `-MATHEMATICAL PENDULUM FLOW EQUATION: [IF (a); AND/OR, (b) EQUALS (0 -to- 9); AND, IF (a) DOES NOT EQUAL (b); AND/OR, IF (b) DOES NOT EQUAL (a); THEN, {(ab) = RECIPROCAL = (ba)} (=) `-GODS `ACTIVE SPIRIT `FORCE (=) GODS `LAW OF `RECIPROCITY]!!!!!~ THE PURE LANGUAGE `-NUMEROLOGY (=) THE EQUATIONS OF `-PENDULUM FLOW!!!!!~
Author: Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780520224674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis compelling and eerie memoir tells of his odyssey through recorded history and eventually to the bay iteslf, as he explores the dark and unyielding side of nature."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Laurel, Bill
Publisher: Publication Consultants
Published: 2016-07-09
Total Pages: 554
ISBN-13: 1940479029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAunt Phil's Trunk Volume Five features dozens of short stories and hundreds of historical photographs that share the history of Alaska from 1960 to 1984. This fifth book in the Alaska history series highlights the first 25 years of statehood when the optimistic citizens of the Great Land created a government from scratch in just a few years and dealt with many challenges. Aunt Phil s Trunk Volume Five shares firsthand accounts of survivors who experienced the 1964 Good Friday earthquake and the devastating tsunamis that followed that 9.2 temblor. It also features stories about the discovery of black gold on the North Slope in the late 1960s, and how Alaska s Native people fought for their land and won the largest settlement ever granted Native Americans. That agreement cleared the way for oil companies to build an 800-mile pipeline through some of the most rugged and remote country in the world during the 1970s.
