| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.3

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Book Review

The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America. Edited by Brian F. Atwater, et al. Reston, Va., and Seattle: United States Geological Survey in association with University of Washington Press, 2005. vii + 133 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, figures, references, index. Paper $24.95.

This is an unusual and fascinating book, a truly collaborative and interdisciplinary account of the tsunami that struck Japan on January 27-28, 1700, and the process by which scientists and historians linked the tsunami to an earthquake in Cascadia, the region west of the Cascades from southern British Columbia to northern California. Its central argument—that an earthquake with an approximate magnitude 9.0 occurred in the region in 1700—has made headlines and garnered the book's first author, Brian Atwater, a spot on Time Magazine's "100 most influential people of 2005." For most of the twentieth century, few believed that Cascadia could produce earthquakes of that magnitude: Atwater and his coauthors present evidence to the contrary, and their findings have had major implications for disaster planning in the region.

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