Active Faults of the World - Hardcover

Yeats, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521190851 ISBN 13: 9780521190855

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Providing the first worldwide survey of active earthquake faults, this book focuses on those described as 'seismic time bombs' - with the potential to destroy large cities in the developing world such as Port au Prince, Kabul, Tehran and Caracas. Leading international earthquake expert, Robert Yeats, explores both the regional and plate-tectonic context of active faults, providing the background for seismic hazard evaluation in planning large-scale projects such as nuclear power plants or hydroelectric dams. He also highlights work done in more advanced seismogenic countries like Japan, the United States, New Zealand and China, providing an important basis for upgrading building standards and other laws in developing nations. The book also explores the impact of major quakes on social development through history. It will form an accessible reference for analysts and consulting firms, and a convenient overview for academics and students of geoscience, geotechnical engineering and civil engineering, and land-use planning.

About this title

Book Description:

The first worldwide survey of active earthquake faults, providing the background for seismic hazard evaluation and for upgrading building standards to protect threatened cities in the developing world. An accessible reference for analysts and consulting firms, and academics and students of geoscience, geotechnical engineering and civil engineering, and land-use planning.

About the Author:

Robert Yeats is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America. He is senior consultant and partner in Earth Consultants International, an international firm focusing on earthquake hazards, and also an Emeritus Professor at Oregon State University. He has decades of experience in earthquake geology worldwide, including acting as chair of the International Lithosphere Project on active faults for several years and authoring three previous books: Geology of Earthquakes (with Kerry Sieh and Clarence R. Allen, 1996), Living with Earthquakes in California (2001) and Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest (2004). An endowed professorship at Oregon State University has been named in his honour and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists have recognised his work by awarding him the Michel T. Halbouty Human Needs Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0521190851
• ISBN 13: 9780521190855
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 634