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Earthshaking Science
This is the first book to really make sense of the dizzying array of information that has emerged in recent decades about earthquakes. Susan Hough, a research seismologist in one …
The Great Quake Debate
In the first half of the twentieth century, when seismology was still in in its infancy, renowned geologist Bailey Willis faced off with fellow high-profile scientist Robert T. …
Predicting the Unpredictable
An earthquake can strike without warning and wreak horrific destruction and death, whether it's the catastrophic 2010 quake that took a devastating toll on the island nation of …
Richter's Scale
By developing the scale that bears his name, Charles Richter not only invented the concept of magnitude as a measure of earthquake size, he turned himself into nothing less than a …
Walking With Sobonfu
Susan Hough experienced a profound shift in her life when she first encountered the works of Sobonfu Som . What she didn't realize, at the time, was that those books would lead her …