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100 Years After 1906: Understanding Earthquakes and Effects

By Mark Zoback Mary Lou Zoback - Stanford
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  • Summer 2006
  • Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
  • Stanford

Lecture Description

July 20, 2006 presentation by Mark Zoback and Mary Lou Zoback for the Stanford University Office of Science Outreach's Summer Science Lecture Series.

Mark Zoback, Professor of Geophysics and Mary Lou Zoback, Senior Research Scientist with the USGS, talk about the current status of earthquake prediction efforts, including the potential for breakthroughs from exciting new experiments they are carrying out.

Course Description

Course Index

  1. Recent Advances in Heart Surgery
  2. Back to Life: The Rebirth of the Monterey Coast
  3. Regenerative Medicine: What Is It?
  4. Using Evolution to Understand Human Growth and Disease
  5. 100 Years After 1906: Understanding Earthquakes and Effects
  6. Global Warming: Is the Science Settled Enough for Policy
  7. Cool Hands, Better Performance
  8. Archimedes: Ancient Text Revealed with X-Ray Vision
  9. Wired for Speech: Voice Interactions with People and Computers
  10. Drugs: One Size Does Not Fit All
  11. Powering the Future with Sustainable Energy
  12. Human Embryonic Stems Cells: Science, Ethics, and Politics