California earthquakes [electronic resource] : science, risk, & the politics of hazard mitigation / Carl-Henry Geschwind.

Reactions to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906
Setting up a scientific infrastructure : seismology California style, 1910-1925
Bailey Willis and the promotion of earthquake safety in the mid-1920s
Engineering a regulatory-state apparatus : seismic safety in the 1930s
Earthquake experts and the Cold War state
New initiatives for earthquake preparedness, 1964-1971
Seismic politics : responses to the San Fernando earthquake of 1971
Pushing prediction : establishment of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program
The regulatory-state apparatus in action.