Richter 10: Arthur C. Clarke and Mike McQuay

Lewis Crane was a child when the devastating Los Angeles earthquake of 1994 ripped his life apart, leaving him the sole survivor of his family. Thirty years later, Crane is the world's leading seismologist, with a burning hatred for quakes. Determined to protect people from his parents' fate, he has developed a unique theory of earthquake prediction - but in a world run by Chinese-controlled corporations and an America radically split along religious and racist lines, there are plenty of people who don't want him to succeed. Then it happens - a massive rolling and shaking that registers 8.5 of the Richter scale. And only Crane knows a bigger 'big one' is coming...a Richter 10...