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1) Earthquakes
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"How do earthquakes form? In this Earthquakes title, readers will learn the answer to that question along with its causes, processes, effects, and why it is important. They will also be introduced to Charles Richter, a seismologist. Bright, full-page photos fill the book, with easy-to-read text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Applied to STEM Concepts of Learning Principles."--Amazon.com.
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On a warm May night in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom shimmers with crystal and silver as a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity dinner dance. The evening is perfect-until, just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glass shatters. And as the lights go out, people begin to scream ... In the earthquake's aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge ... Sarah Sloane, the beautiful wife of a financial...
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Meredith White was one of Hollywood's most recognisable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last 15 years, Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then, on a muggy late summer day, a massive earthquake strikes Northern California, plunging the Bay Area into chaos. Without a moment’s hesitation, Meredith invites her stunned and shaken neighbours...
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I survived volume 5
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English
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Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible. But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 24
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English
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Jack and Annie are all shaken up! The magic tree house whisks them back to California in 1906. As soon as they arrive, the famous San Francisco earthquake hits the city. Can Jack and Annie find the final writing they need to help Morgan save Camelot? Or will San Francisco be destroyed first?
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Discover the Earth's most explosive volcanoes and what it's like to experience an earthquake feels like in this picture-led guide to the hotspots of the world This book tells you everything you need to know about the Earth's most extraordinary natural forces - from active volcanoes, including Kilanea in Hawaii and Etna in Italy, to devastating earthquakes that have hit San Francisco and Japan. Discover how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius devastated...
10) Earthquakes
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c1990
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English
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Discusses why earthquakes happen, what their sometimes devastating effects can be, where the danger zones are, and what measures people can take to safeguard themselves.
11) Disaster movie
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
�2008
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English
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Follows the comic misadventures of a group of ridiculously attractive twenty-somethings during one fateful night as they try to make their way to safety. All the while every known natural disaster and catastrophic event, including, asteroids, tornadoes and earthquakes, all hit the city. They have to overcome the disasters in their path as they try to solve a series of mysteries to end the rampant destruction.
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Brilliance Audio
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Amazing grace: In the aftermath of a San Francisco earthquake, the lives of four strangers will converge...Sarah Sloane, the beautiful wife of a financial whiz, watches her perfect world fall to pieces...Grammy-winning singer Melanie Free comes to a turning point in her life and career...Former war correspondent and photographer Everett Carson finds new purpose amid the carnage...and Sister Maggie Kent searches through the rubble---and knows instantly...