Earthquakes

This annotated list features links to suggested online [|full-text resources], web sites and print materials available in the Instructional Media Center's collection. If you are having difficulty finding the information you need, please stop by the IMC and ask Mrs. O'Keefe for help.

This full-text collection includes domestic and international newspapers, magazine articles, reference books, government documents, pictures and recommended web sites. To get started: 1. **Log in** to SIRS Discoverer. //(Stop by the IMC for the **User Name** and **Password** needed to access this collection. After entering these, **click** the "**My Products Page**" button.)// 2. **Click** on the **Science** button. 3. **Click** on **Weather, Climate & Natural Disasters** (located in the Topics/Subtopics list). 4. **Click** on **Earthquakes** to find magazine and newspaper articles, and other information about this topic. [|Earthquake Information], from InfoPlease.com[|Understanding Quakes] , from the

[|Animated Guide: Earthquakes], from the BBC [|Earthquakes], from the British Geological Survey [|The Earthquake Museum], created by Dan Goldstein [|Qu​ake Basics], from [|Faultline: Seismic Science at the Epicenter]

[|About Earthquakes], from TheTech

[|Earthquakes for K​ids], from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Be sure to check out [|The Science of Earthquakes], [|Animations for Earthquake Terms and Concepts],

[|Earthquake Facts]and more. (You may also want to look at[| Earthquakes], another USGS resource.)

[|Earthquakes], from the [|Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)]

[|How Earthquakes Work], from [|HowStuffWorks]

[|Famous Earthquakes], from [|Factmonster]

[|Natural Hazards in California]

[|The Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire], from [|The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco]

[|Plate Tectonics, The Cause of Earthquakes]

Looking for information about a particular earthquake? Try these sites: [|San Francisco, California] (1906) [|Great Kanto], Japan (1923) [|Agadir], Morocco (1960) [|Valdivia], Chile (1960) [|Prince William Sound, Alaska] (1964) [|Tangshan, China] (1976) [|Mexico City, Mexico] (1985) [|Northridge Earthquake - Los Angeles, California] (1994) [|Papua, New Guinea] (1998) [|Northern S]﻿[|umatra, Indonesia] (2005) [|Léogâne, Haiti] (2010) [|Chile] (2010) (also see [|Yahoo News Directory] and [|Earthquake Hazards])

**OTHER HELPFUL WEB SITES**

[|Earthquakes & Volcanoes], from infoplease.com Check out this nifty listing of notable earthquakes & volcanic eruptions, from A.D. 79 to the present.

[|Illustrated Glossary: Landforms and Bodies of Water] Visit this outstanding Enchanted Learning resource for brief but complete definitions of many landforms, often accompanied by clear illustrations or photographs.

[|Landform: from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia] This article features an extensive list of landforms, each with its own Wikipedia entry, including a definition and explanation of the way in which it forms, and several examples located throughout the world.

[|Geography Glossary] Visit this About.com site to search for brief definitions of "key terms in geography", including many landforms.

[|Maps and Globes Glossary] This site features a nice A-Z listing of words about maps, globes and study of the earth. Visit How the Earth Formed, also available from this site, for a nice explanation of how oceans are formed.

[|Landforms of the World] This site features a long list of landforms. Students can simply click on a landform to learn about its main characteristics, locate at least one example, and see two illustrations/photographs.

[|Worldatlas.com] This site features annotated lists of notable landforms for each of the continents. Students can search for information about continents, countries, dependencies, islands, territories, bodies of water, and more.

**PRINT RESOURCES AVAILABLE IN THE REFERENCE COLLECTION**

//**Atlas of Geology and Landforms**//. Cally Oldershaw. New York: Franklin Watts, 2001. (**REF 550 Old**) This atlas provides facts and information about the study of geology and how it helps to explain the history and development of Earth's various landforms.

//**Earth Science: Discovering the Secrets of the Earth.**// Landforms. Danbury, CT: Grolier Educational, 2000. (**REF 550 Ear**) This resource features color illustrations and photographs of various landforms as well as a glossary of terms.

//**Encyclopedia of Earth and Physical Sciences**//. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1998. (**REF 500.2 Enc**)

//**Encyclopedia of World Geography**//. Editorial Director: Graham Bateman. Marshall Cavendish, 1994. (**R 910.3 Enc**) This encyclopedia features coverage of physical geography, economics, government and peoples, and includes color photographs, charts, maps, an index (vol. 24), and glossary (very useful for defining landforms).

//**Exploring Your World: The Adventure of Geography**//. Prepared by the Special Publications Division, National Geographic Society. National Geographic Society, 1989. (**R 910.3 Exp**) This comprehensive work includes 334 alphabetically arranged entries, more than 1,000 illustrations featuring maps, charts, and photographs, and an index. Useful for landform mapping assignments, it provides a definition of each landform, and an explanation of the way(s) in which it occurred. In many cases, maps are included providing location(s) of one or more examples of landforms.

** BOOKS ABOUT EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANOES, AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS **

//**Earthquake in the Early Morning**//, by Mary Pope Osborne ; illustrated by Sal Murdocca 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. New York: Random House, 2001, 72 p.

** //Earthquake Terror// **, by Peg Kehret When an earthquake hits the isolated island in Northern California where his family is camping, twelve-year-old Jonathan must find a way to keep himself, his partially paralyzed sister and their dog alive until help arrives. New York: Cobblehill Books, copyright 1996, 132 p.

//**Earthshake: Poems From the Ground Up**//, by Lisa Westberg Peters ; pictures by Cathie Felstead Presents twenty-two poems about geology. End notes provide information about the earth's surface and interior, types of rocks, and how volcanoes, glaciers, and erosion modify the landscape. New York: Greenwillow Books, 2003, 32 p.

** //Escaping the Giant Wave// **, by Peg Kehret When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2003, 151 p.

** //High Tide in Hawaii// **, by Mary Pope Osborne Jack and Annie travel in their Magic Tree House back to a Hawaiian island of long ago where they make friends, learn how to surf, and encounter a tsunami. New York: Random House, 2003, 96 p.

//**The Killing Sea**//, by Richard Lewis In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, two teenagers, American Sarah and Acehnese Ruslan, meet and continue together their arduous climb inland, where Ruslan hopes to find his father and Sarah seeks a doctor for her brother. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2006, 183p.

** //PaperQuake: a Puzzle// **, by Kathryn Reiss Certain that she is being drawn by more than coincidences into the lives of people living nearly 100 years ago, Violet, who feels like the odd sister in a set of triplets, searches for clues to help her avert an imminent tragedy. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, copyright 1998, 264 p.

** //Quake!// **, by Joe Cottonwood With their parents away at the 1989 World Series, fourteen-year-old Franny, her younger brother, and their cousin try to cope with the frightening events following an earthquake that destroys their home on Loma Prieta mountain. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1995, 146 p.

** //Quake!: Disaster in San Francisco, 1906// **, by Gail Langer Karwoski Tells the story of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake as seen through the eyes of Jacob, a thirteen-year-old Jewish boy who lives in a boarding house with his father and younger sister. Atlanta: Peachtree, c2004, 153 p.

** //A Sea So Far// **, by Jean Thesman After surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires, two teenage girls, a wealthy semi-invalid and her hired companion, travel together to Ireland and discover they share much in common, from a love of romance novels to grief over the loss of their mothers. New York: Viking, 2001, 195 p.

** //The Shark Callers// **, by Eric Campbell Two teenage boys, one on a shark hunt and the other traveling with his family, face the challenge of their lives when a volcano erupts, causing a massive tidal wave in the South Seas. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace, 1994, 232 p.

** //Storm-Blast// **, by Curtis Parkinson Regan, Matt, and Carol have to depend on each other to survive when their small boat gets swallowed up in a fierce Caribbean storm. Toronto, Ont.; Plattsburgh, N.Y.: Tundra Books, c2003, 156 p.

** //The Strange case of Baby H// **, by Kathryn Reiss In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries. Middleton, Wis.: Pleasant Co., 2002, 163 p. (from the American Girl History Mysteries series, no. 18)

** //The Tears of the Salamander// **, by Peter Dickinson When Alfredo, a twelve-year-old choir boy in eighteenth-century Italy, loses his family in a fire, he goes to live with Uncle Giorgio, who he discovers is a sorcerer in control of the fires of Mt. Etna with sinister plans for his nephew. New York, N.Y.: Wendy Lamb Books, c2003, 197 p.