Disaster Deferred: A New View of Earthquake Hazards in the New Madrid Seismic Zone

Seth Stein

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Paper, 296 pages, 55 halftones, 38 line drawings, 2 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-15139-9
$22.00 / £15.00

October, 2010
Cloth, 296 pages, 55 halftones, 38 line drawings, 2 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-15138-2
$27.95 / £19.95

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The Story Behind "Disaster Deferred"

• The Daily Kos on the book and the 200th anniversary of the New Madrid Earthquake.
• Read an interview with Seth Stein.
• Seth Stein: The Quake Killer, an article in Nature.
• Seth Stein on FEMA's call for the Midwest to prepare for earthquake damage.
• Listen to and watch a video of Seth Stein via WBEZ’s Clever Apes.
• Read an interview with Seth Stein at Failure Magazine.
• Teaching materials for Disaster Deferred.
• Read Seth Stein’s op-ed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Don’t Fear the Quake.
• Listen to Seth Stein discuss the New Madrid fault on St. Louis Public Radio.
• Visit Seth Stein’s Web site.
• Read a review from CNBC

Related Subjects

• General Science
• Geology

About the Author

Seth Stein is Deering Professor of Geological Sciences at Northwestern University. He has received the James B. Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union, the George P. Woollard Award of the Geological Society of America, and the Stephan Mueller Medal of the European Geosciences Union. He has also been elected a foreign member of the Academy of Europe and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and Geological Society of America. His research interests are in plate tectonics, earthquake seismology, earthquake hazards, and space geodesy. He was one of the organizers of EarthScope, a national initiative to dramatically advance our knowledge of the structure and evolution of North America, served as scientific director of the consortium of universities using GPS for earth science, and has been visiting senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He is a coauthor of a widely used seismology textbook, a former editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research, and the founder of Northwestern's Environmental Science program.

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