Quakeland

"[With the underlying premise that] humans have been making enormous changes to subterranean America, and Mother Earth, as always has been making some of her own ... [The author maintains that] the earthquakes that these changes induce will have consequences most of us do not expect and cannot even imagine ... Kathryn Miles descends into mines in the Northwest, dissects Mississippi levee engineering studies, uncovers the horrific risks of an earthquake in the Northeast, and interviews the seismologists, structural engineers, and emergency managers around the country who are addressing this ground-shaking threat"--Book jacket.