Earthquakes and the TCC Library

Earthquakes !
Images of the tragedy in China float across the TV screens in the library. Are we anywhere closer to when we can we predict when and where earthquakes will occur ? Is it possible to build structures that will withstand earthquakes ? What are the worst earthquakes on record here in the US ? What causes earthquakes anyway ? Find the answers to those questions and more at the library.

BOOKS AT THE LIBRARY

Earthquakes : plate tectonics and earthquake hazards
Timothy M. Kusky. Facts On File, 2008.
QE534.3 .K87 2008
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Earthquakes in human history : the far-reaching effects of seismic disruptions
Jelle Zeilinga de Boer. Princeton Univ Press, 2005
QE521 .Z45 2005
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The great earthquake and firestorms of 1906 : how San Francisco nearly destroyed itself
Philip L. Fradkin. Univ of Calif Press, 2005.
F869.S357 F735 2005

The big one : the earthquake that rocked early America and helped create a science
Jake Page. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
QE535.2.U6 P34 2004
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Earthquakes and animals : from folk legends to science [earthquake prediction]
M. Ikeya. World Scientific, c2004.
QE538.8 .I44 2004
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The myth of solid ground : earthquakes, prediction, and the fault line between reason and faith
David Ulin. Viking,2004.
QE538.8 .U45 2004

E-BOOKS AT THE LIBRARY

Encyclopedia of earthquakes and volcanoes
Alexander E. Gates. Facts on File,c2007.
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After the Earth quakes: elastic rebound on an urban planet
Susan Elizabeth Hough. Oxford University Press,2006.
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Disaster management and civil society earthquake relief in Japan, Turkey and India
Alpaslan Özerdem, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
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Websites of relevance

Earthquakes: Basic Educational Information.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) This page explains earthquake basics: why they happen, how they are measured and predicted, and how we can protect ourselves from earthquakes. Also find a list of earthquake terms and some miscellaneous earthquake articles.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/info/basics.html

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National Earthquake Information Center.
Earthquake Hazards Program (EHP), U.S. Geological Survey
The mission of the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program Web site offers data regarding activity, fact and research, and earthquake hazards and preparedness. Maps of the US and the world show locations of earthquakes reported in the last 7 days.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/
also have an extensive list of non-USGS websites on Earthquakes
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/resources/links.php?category=3

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Earthquakes - The Restless Planet, PBS Online.
Learn about what earthquakes reveal, quake prediction, and engineers' approaches to earthquake hazards.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/earthquakes

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TheTech: The Earthquake Shake
Online exhibit looking at what earthquakes are, why they occur, how they have been viewed through history, and why we can't predict them.
http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/quakes

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Journey to the Earth's Interior - Annenberg/CPB
"To better understand the theory of plate tectonics, we need to understand what is happening inside the Earth. No one has ever journeyed to the center of the Earth, except in the movies. What would such a journey reveal about the interior of the Earth?" (ANNENBERG/CPB)
Learn about the earth's interior and igneous rocks.
www.learner.org/channel/courses/essential/earthspace/session3/closer.html
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Earthquake in China: News & Videos, CNN.com
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/news/china.earthquake/

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Aid for Chinese Earthquake Myanmar disaster victims
CNN's Impact Your World special report
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/impact/china.myanmar.html

AUDIO-VISUALS AT THE LIBRARY

Earthquakes, living on the edge.
20th century with Mike Wallace. A&E Television Networks
VIDEO QE534.2 .E27 1996
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The day the earth shook
[Kobe, Japan - Northridge, California] WBGH PBS, 1996.
VIDEO QE534.2 .D2 1996
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Earthquakes: understanding the hazards
American Educational Products.
VIDEO QE534.2 .E271 1994
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Predictable disaster [Nova]
WBGH Educational Foundation
VIDEO QE538.8 .P737 1989
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Earthquakes, exploring earth’s restless crust
Chicago, The Corporation
VIDEO QE534.2 .E3 1983
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Forces of nature: closer then you'd ever want to be
National Geographic, 2004
A-V CVR 501
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Nature's Fury
National Geographic, 1994
VIDEO GB5014 .N394 1994

DATABASES WITH SPECIAL REPORTS

oncampus links - ID access required for off-campus access

CQ Researcher, NewsBank, SIRS to login off-campus go to LINCCWeb

SEARCH THE TCC CATALOG

• Earthquakes
• Earthquakes, California
• Earthquakes, relief
• Earthquakes, social aspects
• Earthquakes, videos & dvds
• Natural Disasters
• Volcanoes

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