Witness to Disaster: Earthquakes

Name: Witness to Disaster: Earthquakes
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ISBN: 9781426302121

ISBN-10: 1426302126

ISBN-13: 9781426302121

Edition: 2008

Authors: Judy Fradin, Dennis Brindell Fradin

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It’s another normal day in Alaska, where the beauty of the rugged landscape makes the hardships of winter worth enduring. This Northern life is good, you think, when suddenlywithout warningyour world is ROCKED! The ground sways beneath your feet with sickening force. You’ve just been caught in the second strongest earthquake in history! Witness to Disaster: Earthquakesuses eyewitness accounts and pulse-racing narrative to bring readers into the terrifying heart of an earthquake. The first chapter documents the 1964 Alaskan quake that shook Prince William Sound with a 9.2 magnitude force, and set off a tsunami that ultimately caused most of the deaths attributed to this frightening act of…

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List price: $26.90
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Publication date: 4/8/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 48
Size: 9.38" wide x 10.25" long x 0.34" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Dennis Brindell Fradin is the author of many books for young readers, including the well-received SAMUEL ADAMS: THE FATHER OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE and, with coauthor and wife Judith Bloom Fradin, IDA B. WELLS: MOTHER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.