Robert Yeats is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Geological Society of America. He is senior consultant and partner in Earth Consultants International, an international firm focusing on earthquake hazards, and also an Emeritus Professor at Oregon State University, where an endowed professorship has been named in his honour. He has decades of experience in earthquake geology worldwide, including acting as chair of an active fault working group of the International Lithosphere Program for several years and writing four previous books: Geology of Earthquakes (with Kerry Sieh and Clarence R. Allen), Living with Earthquakes in California, Living with Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest, and Active Faults of the World.
Part I. Earthquakes, Deep Time and the Population Explosion: 1. Plate tectonics and why we have earthquakes
2. An earthquake primer
3. Deep time
4. When's the next big one?
5. Population explosion and increased earthquake risk to megacities
Part II. Earthquake Time Bombs: 6. San Francisco Bay Area
7. Los Angeles metro area
8. Seattle, Portland and Vancouver
9. Wellington, New Zealand
10. Santiago, Chile
11. Prologue in Central China
12. Age of Enlightenment and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake
13. Jerusalem
14. Istanbul
15. Tehran
16. Kabul
17. Earthquakes in the Himalaya
18. Myanmar and the Sagaing Fault
19. Metro Manila, the Philippines
20. Lima, Peru
21. Andean earthquakes in Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador
22. Caracas
23. Haiti (which lost its gamble), and Jamaica and Cuba (not yet)
24. Mexico City
25. Central America and the earthquake that brought down a dictator
26. East African Rift Valley
Part III. Summary and Recommendations: 27. Where do we go from here?
References
Index.
