Earthquake Damage and Earthquake Insurance: Studies of a Rational Basis for Earthquake Insurance; also Studies of Engineering Data for Earthquake-Resisting Construction

Abstract

DR. FREEMAN, whose death has recently been recorded in our columns, broke new ground in this large volume, for no other work has yet been published that is devoted exclusively to the damage caused by earthquakes, the methods by which it may be lessened, and the covering of loss by insurance. Naturally, he deals for the most part with the earthquakes of the United States, though chapters are also given to recent shocks in Italy, New Zealand and Japan. But, for workers in all countries, the data here collected with the admirable series of illustrations will be found most useful. The chief regret that one feels in closing the volume is that the author lacked the time for its careful revision. The whole book might easily and with great advantage have been condensed to perhaps half its present length.

Earthquake Damage and Earthquake Insurance: Studies of a Rational Basis for Earthquake Insurance; also Studies of Engineering Data for Earthquake-Resisting Construction.

By J. R. Freeman. Pp. xiii + 904. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., Ltd., 1932.) 7 dollars.