Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Reactions to the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 -- CHAPTER 2 Setting Up a Scientific Infrastructure Seismology: California Style, 1910-1925 -- CHAPTER 3 Bailey Willis and the Promotion of Earthquake Safety in the Mid-1920s -- CHAPTER 4 Engineering a Regulatory-State Apparatus: Seismic Safety in the 1930s -- CHAPTER 5 Earthquake Experts and the Cold War State -- CHAPTER 6 New Initiatives for Earthquake Preparedness, 1964-1971 -- CHAPTER 7 Seismic Politics: Responses to the San Fernando Earthquake of 1971
CHAPTER 8 Pushing Prediction: Establishment of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction ProgramCHAPTER 9 The Regulatory-State Apparatus in Action -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index
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