Book
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Earthquakes
Edition
Third edition.
Publication Information
Chicago, IL : World Book, Inc., [2018]
Physical Description
55 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cm.
Audience
Age 5-11.
Summary
"A discussion of earthquakes, describing their characteristics, formation, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant earthquakes from history"--
Notes
Includes glossary and index.
At head of title: Library of natural disasters.
Contents
- What is an earthquake?
- Drifting plates
- The San Francisco earthquake
- Seismic waves
- Earthquake scales
- What happens during an earthquake?
- The Armenian earthquake of 1988
- Earthquake and fire in Tokyo
- The Kobe earthquake
- Sinking into the earth
- The Mexico City earthquake
- Tsunamis
- Japanese earthquake and tsunami
- The Lisbon earthquake of 1755
- Landslides and floods
- Avalanche in the andes
- The Tangshan earthquake
- An earthquake in the Himalayas
- The Chilean earthquake
- Monitoring and predicting earthquakes
- Sichuan earthquake
- Preparing for earthquakes
- Haiti earthquake.