Earthquakes
- ISBN-10
- 0822547112
- ISBN-13
- 9780822547112
- Series
- Earthquakes
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 64
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-07-06
- Publisher
- Lerner Publications
- Authors
- Mary B. Woods, Michael Woods
Description
Describes what earthquakes are and explains what causes them and tells what happened during and after major earthquakes that have occurred in the past two hundred and fifty years.
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