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... for the latest (and epic) failure of the Japanese nuclear power industry to operate safely, a related crisis has been less discussed outside expert circles—the failure of the science of seismology to predict or even model the largest earthquake in Japanese history. Were it not for the meltdown of the power plant...

... was unsuitable to Japan, whereas Conder remained committed to introducing orthodox English architecture. The Great No bi Earthquake of 1891 served as a referendum on architecture and seismology, destroying tens of thousands of buildings and killing approximately 7,300 people. One consequence was heightened...

... read. At Seismic Japan ’s epicenter is an excellent social history of the earthquake itself. Smits shows how the popular assumption that Ansei disproportionately affected the commoners living in Edo's lowlands, while not entirely untrue, is based on a seismological misreading of the event...

... with mathematics and with astronomy, covering about two thirds of the whole. Geography, cartography, seismology, and mineralogy are the subjects of the last part. The author arranges his rich material according to subject categories, such as "simultaneous linear equations," "matrices and determinants," "calculus...

... happened to be outside the spectrum of prediction. Clancey's essay reveals what a central role prediction has played in the science of seismology in Japan. If earthquake prediction is in some measure a peculiarly Japanese scientific enterprise, it reflects not only the archipelago's extraordinary...

...- tural economics in agricultural development. [N. Y., Council on Economic and Cultural Development, I960?] 7 p. (CECA paper) SITTON, GORDON RUSSELL. Farm management re- UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND search. [N. Y., Council on Economic and Cul- CULTURAL ORGANIZATION. Unesco seismological...