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  title info:
    title: Earthquake Disasters in Latin America
    sub title: A Holistic Approach
  name:
    name part: Castaños, Heriberta.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Lomnitz, Cinna.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 65 p. 14 illus., 12 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book is an attempt to demonstrate the analytical power of the holistic approach for understanding disasters. Six major earthquakes in Latin America are used as an example: the general idea is to place disasters in a broad social and regional context. Understanding disasters is a way of understanding the social system. The idea is to show that every major disaster is unique and different. Statistical methods may be useful for purposes of risk estimation but modern disasters are "systemic" and complex. In the chapter on the 2010 Chile earthquake we discuss the tsunami and why the system of tsunami alert did not work. The introductory chapter contains some basics of seismology (plate tectonics) and earthquake engineering. The 1985 Mexico earthquake describes why geology is important. Why was Mexico City founded in a lake? Technology must be adapted to the environment, not "imported" from possibly more advanced but different societies. The 1970 Peru earthquake is an example of disaster in a unique environment. Caracas 1967 takes us on a survey of different engineering solutions. And the 1960 Chile earthquake leads us on a retrospective survey--what has changed in Chile between the two major Chile earthquakes? A discussion on Charles Darwin’s observations of the 1835 Chile earthquake provides a fitting summary.
  table of contents: 1. Darwin and plate tectonics -- 2. The great 1960 Chile earthquake -- 3. The 1967 Caracas earthquake.- 4. The 1970 Peru earthquake -- 5. The 1985 Mexico earthquake -- 6. The 2010 Haiti earthquake -- 7. The 2010 Chile earthquake -- 8. A list of significant earthquakes in Latin America -- 9. Conclusions and recommendations.
  note: by Heriberta Castaños, Cinna Lomnitz.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics
  subject:
    topic: Natural disasters
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Natural Hazards
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics/Geodesy
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences, general
  classification: GB5000-5030
  classification: 551
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
  identifier: 9789400728103
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2810-3
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    record creation date: 120102
    record change date: 20151204173711.0
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