Earthquake time bombs

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 risk to megacities

II. Earthquake time bombs. 6. San Francisco Bay Area

7. Los Angeles

8. Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver : Cascadia subduction zone

9. Japan : Tokyo and the Kansai

10. Wellington, New Zealand

11. Santiago, Chile

12. Prologue in central China

Other time bombs, including cities that are not well prepared. 13. Age of Enlightenment and the 1755 Lisbon earthquake

14. Jerusalem : earthquakes in the Holy Land

15. Istanbul : responding to an official earthquake warning

16. Tehran : the next earthquake in the Islamic Republic of Iran?

17. Kabul : decades of war and Babur's warning

19. Myanmar and the Sagaing fault

20. Metro Manila, the Philippines

21. Lima, Peru : Inca earthquake-resistant construction and a bogus American earthquake prediction

22. Andean earthquakes in Quito and Guayaquil, Ecuador

23. Caracas : lots of oil, but little interest in earthquakes

24. Haiti, which lost its gamble, and Jamaica and Cuba (not yet)

23. Mexico City : bowl of jello inherited from the Aztecs

26. Central America and the earthquake that brought down a dictator

27. East African Rift Valley : a tale of two cities

III. Summary and recommendations. 28. Where do we go from here?