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Science 9 October 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5387, p. 247
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5387.247
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SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
The Public and the Quake That Wasn't
A review by Seth Stein
Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America
John E. Farley
Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL, 1998. 216 pp. $50. ISBN 0-8093-2177-7. Paper, $21.95. ISBN 0-8093-2201-3.
Farley, a sociologist, explores public reaction to Iben Browning's pseudoscientific prediction of a major earthquake on the New Madrid fault zone in December 1990. Using data gathered before and after the "pseudodisaster," he examines the public's planned and actual responses to an earthquake prediction and the reasons why Browning was believed despite the careful analyses offered by seismologists, dismissing his claims.
The author is in the Department of Geological Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. E-mail: seth{at}earth.nwu.edu
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