The Rumbling Earth: The Story of Indian Earthquakes - Hardcover

C.P. Rajendran (author) & Kusala Rajendran ()

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670095613 ISBN 13: 9780670095612

Publisher: Penguin Books India, 2024

Synopsis

The renowned seismologists C.P. Rajendran and Kusala Rajendran offer a riveting story of the Indian earthquakes, their science, history and impact. Like all other natural phenomena, earthquakes are part of life-sustaining forces―the creators of the mountains, valleys and springs or even deserts on Earth―a theatre where the show never ends. The book takes the readers to some exciting parts of India to show how earthquakes change the topography where a sea existed not far in the past―now a salt marsh, affecting the social life, trade and livelihood. The book discusses the likelihood of the next big earthquake in the Himalayas against the backdrop of the devastating earlier ones revealed by archaeology, history and geology. It probes the causes and aftermath of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 and gives a glimpse of the past. The high-impact earthquakes will happen, but they need not always end up as human catastrophes. The authors have spent much of their professional lives studying the earthquakes in India and abroad.

About this title

About the Authors

C.P. Rajendran, an adjunct professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.

Kusala Rajendran, formerly a professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, are a husband-and-wife seismologist team.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books India
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670095613
• ISBN 13: 9780670095612
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256