SuitabookScientific understanding
The book introduces causes and characteristics of earthquakes, aftershocks, seismologists and methods of prediction.
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Anita Ganeri - Author
This offers a broad introduction to earthquakes, combining causes and scientific ideas with historical examples, folklore and practical information about prediction and survival. Its humour and cartoons are central to the presentation.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis offers a broad introduction to earthquakes, combining causes and scientific ideas with historical examples, folklore and practical information about prediction and survival. Its humour and cartoons are central to the presentation.
The book introduces causes and characteristics of earthquakes, aftershocks, seismologists and methods of prediction.
The book includes notable destructive earthquakes and methods of surviving earthquakes.
The book uses humour and black-and-white cartoons while discussing earthquake-related devastation and destruction.
Some sections concern destructive earthquakes, aftershocks, survival and future quakes. A reader has found the jokes and caricature-like cartoons uncomfortable or confusing beside accounts of destruction, so shared reading may help.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Earth-Shattering Earthquakes by Anita Ganeri | Open Library
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