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Full-rip 9.0 : the next big earthquake in the Pacific Northwest / by Doughton, Sandi.(CARDINAL)403737;

MARCIVE 7/2/13Includes bibliographical references and index."Scientists have identified Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver as the urban centers of what will be the biggest earthquake, also called a mega-quake, in the continental United States. A quake will happen--in fact it's actually overdue. The Cascadia subduction zone is 750 miles long, running along the Pacific coast from Northern California up to southern British Columbia. In this fascinating book, The Seattle Times science reporter Sandi Doughton introduces readers to the scientists who are dedicated to understanding the way the earth moves and describes what patterns can be identified and how prepared (or not) people are. With a 100% chance of a mega-quake hitting the Pacific Northwest, this fascinating book reports on the scientists who are trying to understand when, where, and just how big THE BIG ONE will be"--

Subjects: Earthquake prediction; Plate tectonics;

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Cascadia's fault : the coming earthquake and tsunami that could devastate North America / by Thompson, Jerry,1949-(CARDINAL)396634;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-329) and index.pt. 1. Tremors and ripples -- Mexico City : preview of coming events -- Lessons from the rubble : a front-page story -- The Alaska megathrust : Cascadia's northern cousin -- Against the wind of convention : Plafker, Benioff, and Press -- Cauldron and crust : the rehabilitation of continental drift -- Nuke on a fault : early clues in Humboldt Bay -- Proving the doubters wrong : the Chile connection -- Mount St. Helens : Cascadia's smoking gun? -- pt. 2. Setbacks and breakthroughs -- Mud cores and lasers : the search for evidence -- The whoops factor : Cascadia's true nature revealed -- Quake hunters : finding Cascadia's ghost forest -- Cedars, peat, and turbidites : a tipping point at Monmouth -- Cascadia's segmented past : apocalypse or decades of terror? -- Digital water : catching waves in a computer -- Defining the zone : hot rocks and high water -- Cracks, missing rings, and native voices : closing in on a killer quake -- The orphan tsunami : final proof of Cascadia's last rupture -- Episodic tremor and slip : tracking Cascadia with GPS -- Turbidite timeline : Cascadia's long and violent history -- When's this going to happen? : the problems with prediction -- pt. 3. Shockwaves -- Facing reality : Cascadia equals Sumatra -- The next wave : thinking the unthinkable -- Watching it happen, wishing it wouldn't -- Cascadia's fault : day of reckoning -- Epilogue: Survival and resilience, a state of mind.Explains that a major earthquake and resulting tsunamis are likely to occur off the Pacific Northwest coast any time within the next two hundred years, arguing that the effects of the disaster will be far worse than the damage from the 2004 Sumatran quake and tsunamis.

Subjects: Earthquakes; Tsunamis; Earthquake prediction; Tsunamis; Natural disasters; Natural disasters; Natural disasters;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4

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The big one : the Cascadia earthquakes and the science of saving lives / by Rusch, Elizabeth,author.(CARDINAL)666403;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 70-72) and index.Learn about earth movement and plate tectonics, and the possibility of earthquakes at the Cascadia Subduction Zone--an area along the Pacific coast that stretches from British Columbia to northern California. Scientists explain what they've discovered about these earthquakes and what can be done to prepare that could help save lives.Age 10-12.Grade 4 to 6.Accelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Informational works.; Earthquakes; Earthquake prediction; Plate tectonics; Plate tectonics; Earthquake zones; Subduction zones;

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Plate tectonics : unraveling the mysteries of the earth / by Erickson, Jon,1948-(CARDINAL)333325;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index.Continental drift -- Historic tectonics: an overview -- Convection currents -- Crustal plates -- Seafloor spreading -- Subduction zones -- Mountain building -- The rock cycle -- Tectonics and life -- Tectonics in space.

Subjects: Plate tectonics.; Geobiology.; Astrogeology.;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4

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Plate tectonics : unraveling the mysteries of the earth / by Erickson, Jon,1948-(CARDINAL)333325;

MARCIVE 03/01/06Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-278) and index.Continental drift: discovery of plate tectonics -- Historical tectonics: an overview of earth history -- Convection currents: the driving force -- Crustal plates: the lithosphere in motion -- Seafloor spreading: the midocean ridges -- Subduction zones: the deep-sea trenches -- Mountain building: crustal uplift and erosion -- The rock cycle: the balance of nature -- Tectonics and life making: making a living planet -- Tectonics in space: exploring the solar system.Explains the theory of continental drift and shows how this activity has affected the Earth's geological composition.

Subjects: Plate tectonics.;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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Altitude [sound recording] / by Groundtruther (Musical group),performer.; Hunter, Charlie,1967-; Previte, Bobby.; Medeski, John.;

Groundtruther (Charlie Hunter, guitar ; Bobby Previte, drums, electronics) ; John Medeski, keyboards, melodica.Recorded at Spin Studios, Queens, N.Y., Aug., 2006.

Subjects: Jazz;

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The story of the Earth in 25 rocks : tales of important geological puzzles and the people who solved them / by Prothero, Donald R.,author.(CARDINAL)323088;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Volcanic tuff : Vulcan's wrath : the eruption of Vesuvius -- Native copper : the iceman and the island of copper -- Cassiterite : the "isles of tin" and the bronze age -- Angular unconformity : "no vestige of a beginning" : the immensity of geologic time -- Igneous dikes : the "Earth's great heat engine" : the origin of magmas -- Coal : the rock that burns fires the industrial revolution -- Jurassic park : the map that changed the world : William Smith and the rocks of Britain -- Radioactive uranium : the atomic clock : Arthur Holmes and the age of the Earth -- Chondritic meteorites : messengers from space : the origin of the solar system -- Iron-nickel meteorites : the cores of other planets -- Moon rocks : green cheese or anorthosite : the origin of the moon -- The first sediments : early oceans and life? evidence in a grain of sand -- Stromatolites : microbial condos : cyanobacteria and the oldest life -- Banded iron formation : mountains of iron : the Earth's early atmosphere -- Turbidites : archean sediments and submarine landslides -- Diamictites : tropical glaciers and the snowball Earth -- Exotic terranes : paradox in rocks : wandering fossils and traveling landmasses -- Jigsaw-puzzle bedrock : Alfred Wegener and continental drift -- Chalk : the cretaceous seaway and greenhouse planet -- The iridium layer : the death of the dinosaurs -- Lodestones : how paleomagic launched plate tectonics -- Blueschists : the puzzle of subduction zones -- Transform faults : earthquake! the San Andreas Fault -- Messinian evaporites : the mediterranean was a desert -- Glacial erraticts : a poet, a politician, a professor, and a janitor, and the discovery of the ice ages.

Subjects: Geology; Geologists.; Earth sciences;

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5

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How the Earth works [videorecording] / by Wysession, Michael.(CARDINAL)662456; Teaching Company.(CARDINAL)349444;

Taught by: Professor Michael E. Wysession, Washington University in St. Louis.Course covers the making of our planet from the Big Bang, to the formation of the solar system, to the subsequent evolution of Earth. Travel to the center of our planet and out again, charting the geologic forces that churn beneath our feet to push the continents and seafloor.DVD.

Subjects: Lectures.; Educational films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings.; Historical geology.; Geophysics.; Geomorphology.; Geology.;

Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 9

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Marine geology : exploring the new frontiers of the ocean / by Erickson, Jon,1948-(CARDINAL)333325;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-303) and index.

Subjects: Submarine geology.; Marine biology.;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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