Predicting Disasters – Earthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan
Predicting DisastersEarthquakes, Scientists, and Uncertainty in Modern Japan\nAuthor(s): Kerry Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9781512825374, 978-1512825374\nSynopsis\nJapan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era than they have in all but a handful of other locations on the planet. In the twentieth century alone, earthquake disasters in Japan took almost as many lives as they had in all of the country's recorded history up to that point. Predicting Disasters is the first English-language book to explore how scientists convinced policy makers and the public in postwar Japan that catastrophic earthquakes were coming, and the first to show why earthquake prediction has played such a central role in Japan's efforts to prepare for a dangerous future ever since.\n Kerry Smith shows how, in the twentieth century, sc.
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