The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet runs 9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Robert Fass (about 6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 9 hours, it runs longer than 61% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Robert Fass
Robert Fass narrates 294 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,196 hours in all.
About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,906 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet is an audiobook by Henry Fountain: a 9-hour unabridged recording, read by Robert Fass, released August 8, 2017, on the Social Science and The Americas shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Robert Fass
- Released
- August 8, 2017
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, The Americas, Animals & Nature (Non-Fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781524774172
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet as an audiobook?
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet runs 9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6 hours.
Is The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet?
The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet is narrated by Robert Fass.