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Title	Author	# of Pages
Earthquakes: A Natural History	D. S. Halacy Jr.	162

Contents

1. Our Trembling Earth    (p. 1)
2. Earthquakes in History and Myth    (p. 9)
3. The Causes of Quakes    (p. 21)
4. Seismology: The Science of Earthquakes    (p. 37)
5. Volcanoes: the "Ring of Fire"    (p. 57)
6. Tsunamis: The Killer Waves    (p. 71)
7. Earthquake Country!    (p. 83)
8. Earthquake Engineering    (p. 103)
9. Predicting Earthquakes    (p. 121)
10. The Control of Quakes    (p. 135)
11. Surviving an Earthquake    (p. 149)
12. The Shaky Future    (p. 159)