CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. 1. Transform Faults: My Road to Seafloor Spreading, Continental Drift, and Plate Tectonics 1
5. 2. Childhood, High School, MIT, and Columbia University 21
6. 3. Earthquakes Along Fracture Zones and Mid- Oceanic Ridges, 1963– 1965 36
7. 4. Earthquakes at Subduction Zones, 1965– 1967 50
8. 5. Subduction, Plate Tectonics, and the New Global Tectonics, 1967– 1969 58
9. 6. Earthquakes in the Caribbean and Alaska 69
10. 7. Long- Term Earthquake Prediction, Seismic Gaps: Alaska, Mexico, and South America 74
11. 8. The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and Long- Term Prediction for California 100
12. 9. My Work with the U.S. National Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council 121
13. 10. Japanese Earthquakes and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster 132
14. 11. Earthquakes in the Eastern and Central United States 158
15. 12. Earthquake Risks to Nuclear- Power Reactors 173
16. 13. Nuclear- Power Reactors in the United States: Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Disaster 190
17. 14. Travels to Earthquake Countries and a Trip to the Earth’s Mantle in Newfoundland 202
18. 15. Advances in Long- Term Earthquake Prediction: Future Prospects 207
19. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 223
20. GLOSSARY 225
21. REFERENCES 229
22. INDEX 235
23. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 255