QUAKELAND

Reviewed 1/14/2018

Quakeland, by Kathryn Miles

Access to this book courtesy of the
San Jose, CA Public Library
QUAKELAND
On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake
Kathryn Miles
New York: Dutton, August 2017

Rating:

5.0

High

ISBN-13 978-0-525-95518-4
ISBN-10 525-95518-6 356pp. HC $28.00

Table of Contents

  Prologue 1
ONE
LAND MADE FOR YOU AND ME
1: Their Campsite, Our Core 11
2: A Beautiful Place for an Earthquake 23
3: Coffee in Salt Lake 40
4: Our Floating World 54
5: Cold Storage 64
TWO
A WEALTH OF WATER AND ROCK
6: Dam Busting with Sensurround G-Forces! 89
7: The Big Muddy 116
8: Thank God for FedEx 133
9: The Lucky Friday Mine 148
10: Digging Back East 166
11: Our Ingenious Wells 183
12: The Earthquake Fighters of Oklahoma 201
13: Tank Farms on the Prairie 212
14: Cool Stuff to Store in Mines 230
THREE
THE VOICE OF RAGE AND RUIN
15: Blocks and Blocks 241
16: Gimme Shelter 268
17: The School 281
18: Predicting the Unpredictable 301
19: Is the Sky Falling? 315
20: Your Two-Minute Warning 322
 
  Afterword 335
  Acknowledgments 339
  Sources 341
  Index 351
  About the Author 357
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