Redirected to the website and the next Virtual Event and you can learn more of the upcoming Virtual Events as well as showing up on comcast so let me briefly introduce our speakers for tonight. Susan huff lose the Research Seismologist at the Us Geological survey in pasadena. Serving as an editor and contributor for many journals and contributing editor to the magazine and board of directors of the Seismological Society of america as well as a Southern California quake center and the author of five books including henry history here tonight he covers Climate Change and innovation is needed to overcome it. For ten years he wrote about Research Findings with a weekly column and the author of the great quake about the 1964 alaskan earthquake. So now i will turn the screen over to our speakers and enjoy the talk. Thank you. Way to be here. Thank you for being here. Im excited about this even event, living in a Virtual World right now along with everybody else, but it has long been my favor
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Virtual event with susan hough and henry fountain. Before he began i do have some short guidelines. It would like to ask a question for the q a just use ask the question button at the bottom of the screen. Etc questions that seem interesting you can also vote for them and they will make their way to the very top of the list. If youre considering supporting a bookstore by purchasing a copy of, copy of tonight featured book click on the green purchase button directly below the viewers screen. You will be directed to our website where you can complete your purchase. Our next Virtual Event is scheduled for tomorrow august 28 with jon wiener and you can learn more about upcoming Virtual Event on a website as well as by following us on outcast. With that said let me briefly introduce our speakers for tonight. Susan houseman is a Research Seismologist so i bet that at the u. S. Geological survey in pasadena, california. She served as an editor and contributor from many journals and is a contr
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