The Restless Ground
A Human History of EarthquakesBy Oscar Solomon
Length1h 10m
About this audiobook
The warning arrives. Beneath the sea, the earthquake has already begun.
For most of human history, the moving ground offered neither explanation nor escape. People imagined creatures beneath the Earth, searched disaster for divine meaning and tried to understand why apparently solid land could suddenly fail them.
Through ancient instruments, the devastation of Lisbon, displaced Californian fences and the waves that revealed the planet’s hidden interior, Oscar Solomon traces the discovery of an Earth constantly in motion. The Restless Ground explores the difficult journey from interpreting earthquakes to measuring them—and the precious seconds we can sometimes gain when prediction remains beyond our reach.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, History
Length1 hr 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 21, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue: The Warning That Came After The Earthquake
2Chapter One: The Creature Beneath The World
3Chapter Two: The Bronze Dragons
4Chapter Three: All Saints’ Day
5Chapter Four: Making The Earth Write
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6Chapter Five: The Fault That Moved
7Chapter Six: Listening Through The Planet
8Chapter Seven: The Prediction That Worked Once
9Epilogue: The Seconds Between
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