Un crapaud peut-il détecter un séisme ?
90 clés pour comprendre les séismes et tsunamis
Can a toad detect an earthquake?
Ninety keys to understanding earthquakes and tsunamis
December 2004, tsunami in Sumatra, January 2010, earthquake in Haiti, March 2011, earthquake in Tohoku and tsunami in Fukushima - all human dramas that remind us constantly that forecasting earthquakes and tsunamis is still a complex and difficult science.This simple, concise book is an introduction to the broad elementary notions of earthquakes and an inventory on their forecasting.
Release : 20/09/2012
Nb of pages : 176
Format : 13,5 x 21
Reference : 02331
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Clés pour comprendre
December 2004, tsunami in Sumatra, January 2010, earthquake in Haïti, March 2011, earthquake in Tohoku and the tsunami of Fukushima… All these human tragedies constantly remind us to what extent forecasting earthquakes and tsunamis remains a complicated and difficult science.
This book provides a simple and brief introduction to the major fundamental concepts about earthquakes and takes stock of where prediction stands today. What is an earthquake? How does a tsunami or rogue wave form? Can we predict an earthquake? How far ahead? Are there early warning signs? Can we trust animals' sixth sense? What do we know how to do and what are we incapable of? Why can volcanic eruptions and weather be predicted and not earthquakes? Was the Tohoku quake foreseeable? Why wasn't the Fukushima power plant better protected?
Through these 90 questions, this book does not attempt to comprehensively cover the subject. However, it provides points of reference on the history of seismology, developments in prediction and avenues to explore in future. It shares some thoughts about the seismologist's work and various schools of seismology, shedding particular light on the earthquake which hit Japan in March 2011.
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