ISBN: 9781599201115

Description: 32 pages : color illustrations, color maps.

Notes: Includes index.

Contents:

• Natural disasters
• Earthquakes
• Disaster file : Pakistan, 2005
• Earth's layers
• Tectonic plates
• Disaster file : San Andreas Fault
• What happens during an earthquake?
• Locating and measuring an earthquake
• Disaster file : Chile, 1960
• Liquefaction, landslides, and avalanches
• Disaster file : Peru, 1970
• Floods and tsunamis
• Disaster file : Indian Ocean, 2004
• Disaster relief
• Disaster files at a glance.

LCCN: 2007004657

Control Number: 348048

Series:

• Natural disasters
• Natural disasters.

Subjects:

• Earthquakes -- Juvenile literature.
• Natural disasters -- Juvenile literature.