Earthquake

by Bryce S. Walker and Walker Incorporated

Book Overview

A Time-Life Planet Earth book. Contents: Alaska 1964: A World Gone Mad; Prophets of a New Science; Secrets of the Seismic Waves; A Victory for the Visionaries; Dreams of Knowing When and Where;... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809443007
• ISBN13: 9780809443000
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Time Life Medical
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

history of earthquakes and how they happen.

was an educational book about earthquakes and their history through the centuries. How they came up with different ways of detecting earthquakes and where they are going to strike. The different inventors who were involved over the last couple of centuries. It gives you what causes earthquakes and who are likely to get them. They invented an early warning system to alert people when they are coming and to be prepared for them. They talk about tsunamis and how destructive they are which is caused by earthquakes. They can get up to 150 feet and destroy everything in its path.