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by Barbara Tufty.
A basic FAQ on natural disasters, first published in 1969, "clear and stimulating enough to interest the potential scientist in every layman who reads them." Some black and white photos.
by Stan Cohen
Black and white photos (and some color) supplemented with maps and clear, simple diagrams give a dry but complete overview of the results of this major quake.
compiled by Joy Griffin
First-person accounts of the same earthquake fill out the picture and tell what it's like to experience an 8.6 quake.
Tides Foundation
Color photos and short, well-chosen quotes tell the story of the Loma Prieta Quake in the San Francisco Bay Area and Peninsula.
Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori
The title says it all. Some activities could be adapted for science fairs. Elementary to middle-school; line drawings and diagrams.
Bruce A. Bolt
A historical view of earthquakes and our eolving attempts to understand and predict them.
John H. Hodgson
"Intended for the nonspecialist," explores historical quakes that illustrate different aspects of seismology and theory.
Bruce A. Bolt.
What seismology has taught us about the rest of the geological spectrum. Especially good historical illustrations and color charts.
Robert Muir Wood
Colorful diagrams of how these catastrophes come about, and a quake-by-quake timeline (since 1556!) Gives a sense of what a quake scientist's job is like.
with introductions by Bruce A. Bolt
Essays at varying levels of technical difficulty, with excellent maps, diagrams and aerial photographs of faultlines.
Frank W. Lane
"This is a book about extreme natural violence," says the Preface: a collection of survvors' stories of quakes and other events, woven through with science.
Billye Walker Brown and Walter R. Brown
Middle-school level stories of eight historic quakes, illustrated with black & white photos and woodcuts.
by Rose Wyler and Gerald Ames
A "Golden Book" -- grade-school level, with almost cartoonish illustrations. . A starting point for younger readers
by Nancy Cook
Math activities based on seismology, the Richter scale, and powers of ten, for middle-school to high school students. Graphs, worksheets and some maps.
by Ron L. Morton.
A delightfully personal meditation on geology, replete with poetry, music, and such analogies as the meeting of Sumo wrestlers for the collision of tectonic plates, or desert types as "Mae West vs. Olive Oyl."
National Geographic Society
Big, colorful photos and charts, with concise text and a folder of classroom activities about earthquakes and other extremes of nature.
Special Publications Div., National Geographic
More narrative than the other National Geographic book, with many personal accounts of quakes and other natural disasters.
David Ritchie
Some science, some history (Mark Twain's account of 1906) and plenty of sensationalism. about the folly of building, as Los Angeles has, on a major earthquake corridor.
Karenne Snow
Earth from its formation to the present, with a particularly good section on plate techtonics. Includes class activities, field trip suggestions, bibliography and list of relatedjournals and agencies.
Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori
Clear, simple but not simplistic overview with examples from specific quakes. Black & white drawings illustrate concepts, often better than photos of the same scene.
Bruce A. Bolt
Despite the title, a more technical work than Bolt's Earthquakes (above) -- though Bolt uses some of the same examples and photos.
Grove Karl Gilbert
Reprint of the 1907 engineers' reports on their effects on structures and structural materials, building by building. A time capsule of first-hand perspectives on The Big One.
Richard L. Meehan.
An engineer's perspective on the problems of building nuclear plants in fault country. Candid, humorous and thought-provoking.
Judy Woodruff,
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