Natural disasters
Title
:
Natural disasters
Personal Author EPSB
:
Claire. Watts
Summary
:
Full-colour photographs and illustrations are combined with facts and statistics to portray the amazing power of hurricanes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters.
Other Title
:
Eyewitness natural disasters.
Year Published
:
2006
Series
:
Eyewitness books
Physical Description
:
72 p. : col. ill. 29 cm.
Note
:
Includes index.
Contents
:
Savage nature -- Shifting earth -- What is a tsunami? -- Tsunami magnitude --Tsunami risk area -- History of tsunamis -- 2004 Tsunami strike -- 2004 Devastation -- Recovery -- Tsunami warning -- Earthquakes -- Earthquake strike -- Volcanic earth -- Volcano strike -- Landslides and avalanches -- Flood alert -- Flood strike -- Drought -- Firestarter -- Fire strike -- Thunder and lightning -- Stormy weather -- Hurrricane strike -- Tornado alley -- Climate change -- Unnatural disaster -- Epidemic! -- Invisible enemies -- Future disasters -- Did you know? -- Timeline of natural disasters.
Dynamic planet -- Restless earth -- What is a tsunami? -- Wave power -- Walls of water -- A drowned world -- Recovery begins -- Tsunami warnings -- Earth shakes -- Surviving a quake -- Mighty volcanoes -- Rivers of fire -- Landslides and avalanches -- Earth's atomosphere -- Wild weather -- Huricane force -- Battling the wind -- Hurricane Katrina -- Twisting tornadoes -- Flood alert -- Raging waters -- Drought and famine -- Wildfire -- Fighting fires -- Climate change -- Unnatural disasters -- Infectious diseases -- Epidemic -- Future disasters.
Dynamic planet -- Restless Earth -- What is a tsunami? -- Wave power -- Walls of water -- A drowned world -- Recovery begins -- Tsunami warnings -- Earth shakes -- Surviving a quake -- Mighty volcanoes -- Rivers of fire -- Landslides and avalanches -- Earth's atmosphere -- Wild weather -- Hurricane force -- Battling the wind -- Hurricane Katrina -- Twisting tornadoes -- Flood alert -- Raging waters -- Drought and famine -- Wildfire -- Fighting fires -- Climate change -- Unnatural disasters -- Infectious diseases -- Epidemic -- Future disasters.
Subject
:
Natural disasters.
Tsunamis---Juvenile Literature
Natural Disasters---Juvenile Literature
Earthquakes---Juvenile Literature
Volcanoes---Juvenile Literature
Hurricanes---Juvenile Literature
Tornadoes---Juvenile Literature
Floods---Juvenile Literature
Landslides and Avalanches---Juvenile Literature
Drought and Famine---Juvenile Literature
Epidemics---Juvenile Literature
Weather.
Tornadoes.
Hurricanes.
Tsunami
Volcanoes.
Earthquakes.
Tsunamis.
Earthquakes
Volcanoes
Added Author
:
Day, Trevor.
Summary
:
Full-colour photographs and illustrations are combined with facts and statistics to portray the amazing power of hurricanes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters.
ISBN
:
9780756620721
9780756620738
Publisher
:
London ; New York : DK Pub., 2006.
Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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Brightview | 363.3 WAT | Book | 30504000001151 | Non-Fiction |