Explains technologies that help predict seismic events and limit the damage they cause. With the help of high-end modeling programs and increasingly sophisticated sensors and detection devices like interferometric radar, scientists are gaining a better understanding of earthquake triggers and consequences, while engineers have been able to vastly improve the ability of structures to withstand the stresses they endure. Also explores the history of seismic technologies and analyzes historical disasters.
Examines the causes and disastrous effects of earthquakes; discusses how scientists study earthquakes and how buildings are constructed to withstand an earthquake; and offers tips to staying safe during an earthquake.
Presents information on earthquakes, describing why they happen, where they are more likely to occur, efforts being made to improve predictions, and some of the most famous earthquakes of the past.
Five dinosaur friends like to explore their world. Their explorations lead them into danger when they encounter an earthquake, a storm, and meat-eating dinosaurs.
Examines California's fault lines and tells the stories behind the major quakes that have shaken the region. Includes photographs, GPS coordinates, profiles of earthquake scientists, and web sites.
Twelve-year-old Chase and his friend Nicole Rossi attempt to rescue the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants, and all--in Mexico, where a massive earthquake has struck, leading to the imminent eruption of a volcano.
Describes how earthquakes are studied and how the results of those studies can be used to lessen the human, environmental, and structural damage of future quakes.
