volcanoes

Discusses origins, causes, and historical occurrences, of earthquakes and volcanoes and how to prepare for them.

A team of scientists clambers down into the steep crater of an active volcano in central Africa, a lake of molten lava seething far below. The team's mission is to explore this deadly mountain up close to find out when and why it is likely to erupt next. The lives of half a million people living directly in its shadow are at stake. In January 2002, the ground close to the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo split open and rivers of lava swept through entire neighborhoods, killing some 100 people and leaving 120,000 homeless. The volcano towering over the city, Mount Nyirangongo, had awoken again. Now French volcanologist Jacques Durieux and his team worry that, next time, deadly lava could erupt from cracks directly under the city itself.

When a volcano expert becomes convinced that a cataclysmic natural disaster is about to unfold, a volcanologist Professor Peter Shepard and his graduate students believes that recent unexplainable volcanic activity as all of the volcanoes in the world are going to erupt and kill every living thing on the planet.

See some astonishing footage of the world's largest volcanic eruption in 80 years. Local tribespeople were the first to see the signs. "There was a flash of light from the sky," said one. "I thought it was my time to die." The Philippines' Mount Pinatubo was acting restless, and the volcanologists at Clark Air Force Base were starting to sweat.

Contains over eighty comprehensive overview articles that provide a complete summary of the state of knowledge about volcanoes, grouped in nine thematic sections; and includes figures and tables, cross-references, and a subject index.

A Native American girl helps save her village from being destroyed by a volcano when she rescues the frogs that have been stolen from the lake and returns them to their grandmother.

Simple text and illustrations describe the characteristics of volcanoes and what happens during an eruption.

This book examines the different kinds of volcanoes and their effects on the earth.

A photographic profile of volcanoes that also explains what they are, where they are found, their effects, and how they are predicted, and describes famous eruptions.