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“Novelists get called master storytellers all the time, but Sittenfeld really is one. . . . What might be most strikingly excellent about Sisterland is the way Sittenfeld depicts domesticity and motherhood.”—Maggie Shipstead, The...

Examines why and where earthquakes happen, the way they are measured, the destruction they can bring to a community, and steps that can be taken to stay safe if one strikes.

Provides information about volcanoes and earthquakes, including famous volcanoes, what causes earthquakes, and how to prepare for both.

The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.

Questions and answers provide information about volcanoes and earthquakes, covering such aspects as why, how, when, and where these phenomena occur.

In this new 2021 high-definition program, learn all about earthquakes. What is an earthquake? What causes an earthquake? What is "plate tectonics" and "subduction?" What are "divergent" "convergent," and "transform" boundaries? What are the "core" "mantle" and "crust" of the earth? What are the biggest earthquakes of all time, and what have seismologists learned from them? What can people do to protect themselves if they are caught in an earthquake?...

Fatima is having fun camping with her friends, but she is afraid the dark. She has to get through a ruined city at night, avoiding the dangers of crumbling buildings, cracks in the ground and fallen masonry without power or light.

Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals significant secrets about Atherton, the strictly divided world on which he lives, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others.

After Atherton's three-tiered world collapses, ending the geographical division of the social classes, Edgar, Samuel, and Isabel try to restore the flow of water and uncover the world's mysterious origins in the process.