Why the earth quakes : the story of earthquakes and volcanoes /
Matthys Levy, Mario Salvadori.
- New York : W. W. Norton, 1995.
- 215 p. : il.
The cracked egg - The fire goddess - The mountains of Vulcan - Lisbon, 1755 - The birth of seismology - Measuring earthquakes - The kanto earthquake - Resisting earthquakes - The great fault - Three minutes in anchorage - Precursors and predictions - Seismic isolation - Social consequences: codes and public policy - Risk and preparedness - Echoes of the Big Bang.