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Richter 10

Author: Arthur C Clarke; Mike McQuay
Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, 1996.
Series: A Bantam spectra book
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
A race to avert a massive earthquake. The hero is Lewis Crane, a seismologist whose family perished in the one in Los Angeles in 1994 and who devotes himself to forecasting them. He predicts a giant one for the Mississippi Valley, it never materializes and Crane is laughed at. Then he discovers a mistake in his calculations and realizes the earthquake is round the corner. But how to convince the country?
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Genre/Form: Science fiction.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Arthur C Clarke; Mike McQuay
ISBN: 0553097083 9780553097085
OCLC Number: 33101737
Description: 373 p. ; 24 cm.
Series Title: A Bantam spectra book
Other Titles: Richter ten
Responsibility: Arthur C. Clarke & Mike McQuay.

Abstract:

A race to avert a massive earthquake. The hero is Lewis Crane, a seismologist whose family perished in the one in Los Angeles in 1994 and who devotes himself to forecasting them. He predicts a giant one for the Mississippi Valley, it never materializes and Crane is laughed at. Then he discovers a mistake in his calculations and realizes the earthquake is round the corner. But how to convince the country?

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