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| earthquakes in nj history: Encyclopedia of Earthquakes and Volcanoes Alexander E. Gates, David Ritchie, 2006 Provides information on earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in various regions of the world, major quakes and eruptions throughout history, and geologic and scientific terms. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Earthquakes in New Jersey Daniel R. Dombroski, 1973 |
| earthquakes in nj history: The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes Conevery Bolton Valencius, 2013-09-25 From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent’s mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the time the nation began to recover from the Civil War, the New Madrid earthquakes had been essentially forgotten. In The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, Conevery Bolton Valencius remembers this major environmental disaster, demonstrating how events that have been long forgotten, even denied and ridiculed as tall tales, were in fact enormously important at the time of their occurrence, and continue to affect us today. Valencius weaves together scientific and historical evidence to demonstrate the vast role the New Madrid earthquakes played in the United States in the early nineteenth century, shaping the settlement patterns of early western Cherokees and other Indians, heightening the credibility of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa for their Indian League in the War of 1812, giving force to frontier religious revival, and spreading scientific inquiry. Moving into the present, Valencius explores the intertwined reasons—environmental, scientific, social, and economic—why something as consequential as major earthquakes can be lost from public knowledge, offering a cautionary tale in a world struggling to respond to global climate change amid widespread willful denial. Engagingly written and ambitiously researched—both in the scientific literature and the writings of the time—The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes will be an important resource in environmental history, geology, and seismology, as well as history of science and medicine and early American and Native American history. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Catalog of New Jersey Earthquakes Through 1990 Daniel R. Dombroski, 1992 |
| earthquakes in nj history: The Earthquake Observers Deborah R. Coen, 2013 Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This book explains how observing networks transformed an instant of panic and confusion into a field for scientific research, turning earthquakes into natural experiments at the nexus of the physical and human sciences. |
| earthquakes in nj history: The 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, Earthquake Otto W. Nuttli, G. A. Bollinger, Robert B. Herrmann, 1986 |
| earthquakes in nj history: Witness to Disaster: Earthquakes Judith Bloom Fradin, Dennis B. Fradin, Judy Fradin, 2008 Describes the earthquake in Alaska in 1964 as told by eyewitness accounts of this disaster. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Earthquakes in New Jersey Daniel R. Dombroski, 1977 |
| earthquakes in nj history: New Jersey History , 1918 |
| earthquakes in nj history: Earthquakes and Coseismic Surface Faulting on the Iranian Plateau Manuel Berberian, 2014-06-23 Earthquakes and Coseismic Surface Faulting on the Iranian Plateau is a comprehensive and well-illustrated multi-disciplinary research work that analyzes the human and physical aspects of the active faults and large-magnitude earthquakes since ancient times on the Iranian Plateau. The long-term historical, archaeological, and sociological record of earthquakes discussed here gives insight into earthquake magnitudes, recurrences, fault segmentation, clustering, and patterns of coseismic ruptures from prehistoric times to the present. The first part of the book examines oral traditions and literature of the region concerned with earthquakes, particularly in folklore, epic literature, and theology. The second part assesses dynamic phenomena associated with earthquakes, including active tectonics, archaeoseismicity, and coseismic surface faulting throughout the twentieth century. This work is a valuable technical survey and an essential reference for understanding seismic hazard analysis and earthquake risk minimization in earthquake-prone developing and developed countries throughout the world. - Provides a reference for seismic hazard evaluation and analysis - Covers data dealing with crustal deformations caused by earthquake faulting and folding since historic times - Presents unique and complete data for use in empirical relation analyses in all regions |
| earthquakes in nj history: Earthquakes Michael Woods, Mary B. Woods, 2007-01-01 Earthquakes are difficult to predict. One minute, everything is normal. The next, the ground rumbles enough to rattle dishes in the cupboard or shakes so violently that buildings collapse. There's an earthquake somewhere on earth every day. Big quakes can topple buildings, crumble homes, and threaten the lives of thousands of people. With dramatic images and first-hand survivor stories plus the latest facts and figures this book takes you up close with some of the world's biggest earthquake disasters. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Earthquake Andrew Robinson, 2013-02-15 The 2011 devastating, tsunami-triggering quake off the coast of Japan and 2010’s horrifying destruction in Haiti reinforce the fact that large cities in every continent are at risk from earthquakes. Quakes threaten Los Angeles, Beijing, Cairo, Delhi, Singapore, and many more cities, and despite advances in earthquake science and engineering and improved disaster preparedness by governments and international aid agencies, they continue to cause immense loss of life and property damage. Earthquake explores the occurrence of major earthquakes around the world, their effects on the societies where they strike, and the other catastrophes they cause, from landslides and fires to floods and tsunamis. Examining the science involved in measuring and explaining earthquakes, Andrew Robinson looks at our attempts to design against their consequences and the possibility of having the ability to predict them one day. Robinson also delves into the ways nations have mythologized earthquakes through religion and the arts—Norse mythology explained earthquakes as the violent struggling of the god Loki as he was punished for murdering another god, the ancient Greeks believed Poseidon caused earthquakes whenever he was in a bad mood or wanted to punish people, and Japanese mythology states that Namazu, a giant catfish, triggers quakes when he thrashes around. He discusses the portrayal of earthquakes in popular culture, where authors and filmmakers often use the memory of cities laid to waste—such as Kobe, Japan, in 1995 or San Francisco in 1906—or imagine the hypothetical “Big One,” the earthquake expected someday out of California’s San Andreas Fault. With tremors happening in seemingly implausible places like Chicago and Washington DC, Earthquake is a timely book that will enrich earthquake scholarship and enlighten anyone interested in these ruinous natural disasters. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Earthquake Engineering Yousef Bozorgnia, Vitelmo V. Bertero, 2004-05-11 This multi-contributor book provides comprehensive coverage of earthquake engineering problems, an overview of traditional methods, and the scientific background on recent developments. It discusses computer methods on structural analysis and provides access to the recent design methodologies and serves as a reference for both professionals and res |
| earthquakes in nj history: After the Earth Quakes Susan Elizabeth Hough, Roger G. Bilham, 2005-11-24 Earthquakes rank among the most terrifying natural disasters faced by mankind. Out of a clear blue sky-or worse, a jet black one-comes shaking strong enough to hurl furniture across the room, human bodies out of bed, and entire houses off of their foundations. When the dust settles, the immediate aftermath of an earthquake in an urbanized society can be profound. Phone and water supplies can be disrupted for days, fires erupt, and even a small number of overpass collapses can snarl traffic for months. However, when one examines the collective responses of developed societies to major earthquake disasters in recent historic times, a somewhat surprising theme emerges: not only determination, but resilience; not only resilience, but acceptance; not only acceptance, but astonishingly, humor. Elastic rebound is one of the most basic tenets of modern earthquake science, the term that scientists use to describe the build-up and release of energy along faults. It is also the best metaphor for societal responses to major earthquakes in recent historic times. After The Earth Quakes focuses on this theme, using a number of pivotal and intriguing historic earthquakes as illustration. The book concludes with a consideration of projected future losses on an increasingly urbanized planet, including the near-certainty that a future earthquake will someday claim over a million lives. This grim prediction impels us to take steps to mitigate earthquake risk, the innately human capacity for rebound notwithstanding. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Defense National Stockpile Center, Fort Belvoir, Mercury Management , 2004 |
| earthquakes in nj history: Deep Earthquakes Cliff Frohlich, 2006-05-04 A comprehensive, topical, historical, and geographical summary of deep earthquakes and related phenomena. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Living on an Active Earth National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Committee on the Science of Earthquakes, 2003-09-22 The destructive force of earthquakes has stimulated human inquiry since ancient times, yet the scientific study of earthquakes is a surprisingly recent endeavor. Instrumental recordings of earthquakes were not made until the second half of the 19th century, and the primary mechanism for generating seismic waves was not identified until the beginning of the 20th century. From this recent start, a range of laboratory, field, and theoretical investigations have developed into a vigorous new discipline: the science of earthquakes. As a basic science, it provides a comprehensive understanding of earthquake behavior and related phenomena in the Earth and other terrestrial planets. As an applied science, it provides a knowledge base of great practical value for a global society whose infrastructure is built on the Earth's active crust. This book describes the growth and origins of earthquake science and identifies research and data collection efforts that will strengthen the scientific and social contributions of this exciting new discipline. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Earthquake and the Invention of America Anna Brickhouse, 2024-10-10 Earthquake and the Invention of America: The Making of Elsewhere Catastrophe explores the role of earthquakes in shaping the deep timeframes and multi-hemispheric geographies of American literary history. Spanning the ancient world to the futuristic continents of speculative fiction, the earthquake stories assembled here together reveal the emergence of a broadly Western cultural syndrome that became an acute national fantasy: elsewhere catastrophe, an unspoken but widely prevalent sense that catastrophe is somehow un-American. Catastrophe must be elsewhere because it affirms the rightness of here where conquest, according to the syndrome's logic, did not happen and is not occurring. The psychic investment in elsewhere catastrophe coalesced slowly, across centuries; varieties of it can be found in various European traditions of the modern. Yet in its most striking modes and resonances, elsewhere catastrophe proves fundamental to the invention of US-America--which is why earthquake, as the exemplary elsewhere catastrophe, is the disaster that must always happen far away or be forgotten. The book's eight chapters and epilogue range from Plato to the Puritans, from El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and Voltaire to Herman Melville and N.K. Jemisin, examining along the way the seismic imaginings of Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, and Jose Martí, among other writers. At the core of the book's inquiries are the earthquakes, historical and imagined, that act as both a recurrent eruptive force and a provocation for disparate modes of critical engagement with the long and catastrophic history of the Americas. |
| earthquakes in nj history: The Earthquake America Forgot Norman Reiss, David Stewart, Ray Knox, 2005-02-07 Scientifically and historically describes the New Madrid, Missouri earthquakes of 1811-1812 and provides valuable information in the event of an earthquake today. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Earthquakes and the Urban Environment G. Lennis Berlin, 2018-01-18 This monograph attempts to amalgamate recent research input comprising the vivifying components or urban seismology at a level useful to those having an interest in the earthquake and its effects upon an urban environment. However, because some of those interested in the earthquake- urban problem may not have a strong background in the physical sciences. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Sea and Land Harry C Black Professor of History Philip J Morgan, John R. McNeill, Matthew Mulcahy, George Burton Adams Professor of History Stuart B Schwartz, Stuart B. Schwartz, 2022-05-13 Sea and Land provides an in-depth environmental history of the Caribbean to ca 1850, with a coda that takes the story into the modern era. It explores the mixing, movement, and displacement of peoples and the parallel ecological mixing of animals, plants, microbes from Africa, Europe, elsewhere in the Americas, and as far away as Asia. It examines first the arrival of Native American to the region and the environmental transformations that followed. It then turns to the even more dramatic changes that accompanied the arrival of Europeans and Africans in the fifteenth century. Throughout it argues that the constant arrival, dispersal, and mingling of new plants and animals gave rise to a creole ecology. Particular attention is given to the emergence of Black slavery, sugarcane, and the plantation system, an unholy trinity that thoroughly transformed the region's demographic and physical landscapes and made the Caribbean a vital site in the creation of the modern western world. Increased attention to issues concerning natural resources, conservation, epidemiology, and climate have now made the environment and ecology of the Caribbean a central historical concern. Sea and Land is an effort to integrate that research in a new general environmental history of the region. Intended for scholars and students alike, it aims to foster both a fuller appreciation of the extent to which environmental factors shaped historical developments in the Caribbean, and the extent to which human actions have transformed the biophysical environment of the region over time. The combined work of eminent authors of environment and Latin American and Caribbean history, Sea and Land offers a unique approach to a region characterized by Edenic nature and paradisiacal qualities, as well as dangers, diseases, and disasters. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Geology in the Siting of Nuclear Power Plants Allen W. Hatheway, Cole R. McClure, 1979 |
| earthquakes in nj history: History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey , 1882 |
| earthquakes in nj history: Earthquake Engineering Research Center Library Printed Catalog University of California, Berkeley. Earthquake Engineering Research Center. Library, 1975 |
| earthquakes in nj history: Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston Boston Public Library, 1879 |
| earthquakes in nj history: The History of the Study of Landforms or the Development of Geomorphology, Volume 5 T.P. Burt, A.S. Goudie, H.A. Viles, 2022-10-20 Co-published with British Society for Geomorphology This volume is the fifth in the definitive series, The History of the Study of Landforms or the Development of Geomorphology. Volume 1 (1964) dealt with contributions to the field up to 1890, Volume 2 (1973) with the concepts and contributions of William Morris Davis and Volume 3 (1991) covered historical and regional themes during the ‘classic’ period of geomorphology (1890–1950). Volume 4 (2008) concentrated on studies of geomorphological processes and Quaternary geomorphology between 1890 and 1965; by the end of this period, process-based studies had become dominant. Volume 5 builds on this platform, covering in detail the revolutionary changes in approach that characterized the study of geomorphology in the second half of the twentieth century. It is divided into three sections: the first deals with changes in approach and method; the second with changes in ideas and the broader scientific context within which geomorphology is studied; and the final section details advances in research on processes and landforms. The volume’s objective is to describe and analyse many of the developments that provide a foundation for the rich and varied subject matter of twenty-first century geomorphology. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History Ballard C. Campbell, 2008 Presents a chronologically-arranged reference to catastrophic events in American history, including natural disasters, economic depressions, riots, murders, and terrorist attacks. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Geotechnology Compendium I Journal Editors, 2002-03-06 Geotechnical Compendium I provides a collection of the best articles from the year 2000. The papers, selected by the Editors, are taken from the following journals: Computers and Geotechnics Geotextiles and Geomembranes International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences Journal of Terramechanics Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology |
| earthquakes in nj history: Evaluating Earthquake Hazards in the Los Angeles Region--an Earth-science Perspective Joseph I. Ziony, 1985 An integrated set of studies describing methods for evaluating geologically controlled earthquake hazards as a basis for reducing future losses. |
| earthquakes in nj history: The Standard , 1925 |
| earthquakes in nj history: The ShakeOut Earthquake Scenario , 2008 |
| earthquakes in nj history: History of Shock Waves, Explosions and Impact Peter O. K. Krehl, 2008-09-24 This unique and encyclopedic reference work describes the evolution of the physics of modern shock wave and detonation from the earlier and classical percussion. The history of this complex process is first reviewed in a general survey. Subsequently, the subject is treated in more detail and the book is richly illustrated in the form of a picture gallery. This book is ideal for everyone professionally interested in shock wave phenomena. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Earthquake Science and Seismic Risk Reduction Francesco Mulargia, Robert J. Geller, 2003 |
| earthquakes in nj history: A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk Gaspar Mairal, 2020-03-02 This book answers the need for a contextual, long-term and interpretative analysis of risk from original sources. Risk has historically been a way of imagining what could happen in the future based on expert theories and predictions. This book explores this notion of managing the future by tracing the conceptual development of risk from its origin in Islamic Koranic theology. It follows its long voyage from mercantile law and navigation in Medieval Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, to Columbus' arrival to the Indies and the Spanish exploration and colonization in the Americas. It considers the mathematical invention of probability in games of chance, the birth of journalism in Britain with Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, the earthquake of Lisbon in 1755 and the subsequent controversy between apocalyptic believers and enlightened philosophers. Tracking the growth and evolution of risk as a concept across various historical periods and events, Mairal highlights four key features of risk - time, knowledge, relationship and probability - and argues that risk is not based on perception as it is generally presented, but rather on knowledge accrued and developed over a vast historical time frame. A Pre-Modern Cultural History of Risk will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk management. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations, and Civilization Andrew Robinson, 2016-10-11 A truly welcome and refreshing study that puts earthquake impact on history into a proper perspective. --Amos Nur, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University, California, and author of Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology, and the Wrath of God Since antiquity, on every continent, human beings in search of attractive landscapes and economic prosperity have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of devastation by an earthquake. Today, around half of the world’s largest cities – as many as sixty – lie in areas of major seismic activity. Many, such as Lisbon, Naples, San Francisco, Teheran, and Tokyo, have been severely damaged or destroyed by earthquakes in the past. But throughout history, starting with ancient Jericho, Rome, and Sparta, cities have proved to be extraordinarily resilient: only one, Port Royal in the Caribbean, was abandoned after an earthquake. Earth-Shattering Events seeks to understand exactly how humans and earthquakes have interacted, not only in the short term but also in the long perspective of history. In some cases, physical devastation has been followed by decline. But in others, the political and economic reverberations of earthquake disasters have presented opportunities for renewal. After its wholesale destruction in 1906, San Francisco went on to flourish, eventually giving birth to the high-tech industrial area on the San Andreas fault known as Silicon Valley. An earthquake in Caracas in 1812 triggered the creation of new nations in the liberation of South America from Spanish rule. Another in Tangshan in 1976 catalysed the transformation of China into the world’s second largest economy. The growth of the scientific study of earthquakes is woven into this far-reaching history. It began with a series of earthquakes in England in 1750. Today, seismologists can monitor the vibration of the planet second by second and the movement of tectonic plates millimeter by millimeter. Yet, even in the 21st century, great earthquakes are still essentially acts of God, striking with much less warning than volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, and even tornadoes and tsunamis. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Annual Index of Current Earthquake Literature , 1979 |
| earthquakes in nj history: Checklist of Official New Jersey Publications , 1991 |
| earthquakes in nj history: Earthquake Source Mechanics Shamita Das, John Boatwright, Christopher H. Scholz, 1986 |
| earthquakes in nj history: The San Andreas Fault System, California , 1990 An overview of the history, geology, geomorphology, geophysics, and seismology of the most well known plate tectonic boundary in the world. |
| earthquakes in nj history: Texas Earthquakes Cliff Frohlich, Scott D. Davis, 2010-01-01 When nature goes haywire in Texas, it isn't usually an earthshaking event. Though droughts, floods, tornadoes, and hail all keep Texans talking about the unpredictable weather, when it comes to earthquakes, most of us think we're on terra firma in this state. But we're wrong! Nearly every year, earthquakes large enough to be felt by the public occur somewhere in Texas. This entertaining, yet authoritative book covers all you really need to know about earthquakes in general and in Texas specifically. The authors explain how earthquakes are caused by natural forces or human activities, how they're measured, how they can be predicted, and how citizens and governments should prepare for them. They also thoroughly discuss earthquakes in Texas, looking at the occurrences and assessing the risks region by region and comparing the amount of seismic activity in Texas to other parts of the country and the world. The book concludes with a compendium of over one hundred recorded earthquakes in Texas from 1811 to 2000 that briefly describes the location, timing, and effects of each event. |
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Estimated per capita income in 2023: $55,641 (it was $23,342 in 2000) Costa Mesa city income, earnings, and wages data
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Amtrak stations near Hacienda Heights: 10 miles: FULLERTON (120 E. SANTA FE AVE.) . Services: ticket office, fully wheelchair accessible, enclosed waiting area, public restrooms, …
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Jan 17, 2019 · I can't wait to move here. In California, I am used to living with fear of earthquakes, fires and floods, antifa, daily angst and protests about everything you can think of. I pay $4.00 …
How did god come into existence? - Religion and Spirituality ...
May 21, 2025 · Why have most species come and gone from this planet? Why does it appear so many other planets are void of life. Why are there asteroids floating around space without any …
What parts of the country do you see changing the most by the …
Jun 3, 2025 · Technically a very large earthquake in some of the more risk prone west coast areas can do it, but five years on the geological time scale for major earthquakes is a very slim …
Denver in the 1960s and 1970s (Memory Lane) (Aurora, Boulder: …
Jan 30, 2011 · The man made earthquakes. Remember those? Didn't they find out that one of those government entities was pumping toxic waste into deep rocks, lubricating those rocks, …
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Estimated per capita income in 2023: $46,699 (it was $20,671 in 2000) Los Angeles city income, earnings, and wages data
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Jan 18, 2020 · Mean prices in 2023: all housing units: $411,875; detached houses: $529,686; mobile homes: $174,713 Median gross rent in 2023: $947.
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Trona, California detailed profile. Colleges/universities with over 2000 students nearest to Trona: Cerro Coso Community College (about 22 miles; Ridgecrest, CA; Full-time enrollment: 2,420)
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