epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Jon Mooallem [Mooallem, Jon]

* * * — BRINK’S OUR TOWN CAST, in March 1964, was a motley cross section of greater Anchorage. There was a silver-haired middle school English teacher, an African American ...

epub |eng | 2018-10-03 | Author:peter langdon ward, ph.d, david bennett laing, peter langdon ward

epub |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:Jay Feldman

AS THE New Orleans made her way south, the going got easier and the evidence of the earthquakes became less apparent. On December 30, the steamboat reached Natchez, where she ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-16 | Author:Jeff Birkby

THE HOT SPRINGS The only hot springs along Montana’s northern tier, Sleeping Buffalo Hot Springs has attracted bathers from North Dakota, Saskatchewan, and Montana since the 1920s. The term “hot ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:David Nabhan

Saturnian moon, Prometheus, discovered in 1980 (NASA). Chapter Eleven 4.5 Quintillion Joules Joseph Stalin can be faulted for any number of terrible shortcomings. That’s probably the kindest way to describe ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-19 | Author:Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir [Murphy, Warren & Sapir, Richard]

FOURTEEN But across town, in the office of the First Aquino Trust and Development Corporation, Lester Curpwell IV was sweating. He faced two men. He had known they were trouble ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-16 | Author:Matt C. Bischoff

Radium Springs, located in a strategic place on an important southwestern travel route, has a rich history. Native Americans knew about the hot springs for centuries. The Apaches considered the ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-27 | Author:Bryan Walsh [Walsh, Bryan]

DISEASE Twenty-First-Century Plague The existential threats I’ve covered in this book are either historical or theoretical. I haven’t lived through an asteroid strike or a supereruption or a full-scale nuclear ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Lynn R. Sykes

FIGURE 10.1 Northeast near the town of Midori, Japan, bushes in a field mark an old property line that was offset to the left about 10 feet (3 meters) during ...

epub |eng | | Author:Hinga, Bethany;

Mexico City Earthquake, Mexico (1985) On September 19, 1985, Mexico was hit with a magnitude 8 earthquake. Its epicenter was in a subduction zone in the western part of the ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Dvorak

The role of gases in volcanic eruptions was self-evident to anyone who has seen an eruption. Lava froths furiously and fountains during eruptions, causing huge plumes of gas to rise ...

epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Sandi Doughton [Doughton, Sandi]

Nisqually was Carol Davis’s most serene seismic experience. From the chairlift at Crystal Mountain ski area, she noticed something odd about the treetops. “They were dancing, waving back and forth,” ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-27 | Author:Gillen D'Arcy Wood

A CATASTROPHE, BUT NOT CATASTROPHISM Now largely forgotten outside Switzerland, the 1818 Val de Bagnes disaster was nevertheless widely reported in the European press and became a major talking point ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Bruce Barcott

CAMP MUIR I began going high. On quiet mornings I slipped out of the city before it awoke and drove to Paradise, snapped on a pair of gaiters, and walked ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-16 | Author:James Palmer

Back in Beijing, the staff of the Seismological Bureau ran to work. Like most people with government positions, they had free housing near their offices. Their office was covered with ...