Witness to Disaster: Tsunamis (ePub edition) (Witness to Disaster)

Synopsis

It’s another beautiful day of your paradise vacation in South Asia. You look out onto a calm sea on this day after Christmas, already looking forward to ringing in 2005. But why is the ocean receding so far from shore? Are those fish flapping around in the sand? Something is not right. Your island getaway is about to be devastated with the 80-foot-plus waves of one of the worst tsunamis in history. The 2004 Asian Tsunami was the result of the second largest earthquake ever recorded. Lasting over eight minutes, it was also the longest on record. The quake measured 9.0 on the Richter scale, large enough to vibrate the entire planet, violent enough to move an ocean. Through eyewitness accounts and dramatic photography, the first chapter of Tsunamis puts you in the terrifying path of the wave that washed ashore in many countries. The tsunami wiped out whole communities and claimed an estimated 230,000 lives. Tsunamis explores the science, history, and personal experience of tsunamis and shows kids what scientists are doing to develop early warning systems so we can survive such disasters in the future. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources.Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information. From the Hardcover edition.

Copyright:

2008

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781426309809

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Date of Addition:

02/16/20

Copyrighted By:

Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Children's Books, Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Earth Sciences

Grade Levels:

Fourth grade, Fifth grade, Sixth grade, Seventh grade

Reading Age:

9–12

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Dennis Fradin

Edited by:

National Geographic Kids