April Fools Tsunami
Download April Fools Tsunami PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get April Fools Tsunami book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages.
Tsunamis
You probably have seen regular waves at a beach. Now imagine those waves being as tall as a 10-story building! These waves are a tsunami. Tsunamis are one of Earth's deadliest disasters. They can flood cities, ravage coastlines, and carry people out to sea. With dramatic images and first-hand survivor stories plus the latest facts and figures this book takes you inside the terrifying waves of a tsunami.
Tsunami
Tsunami unveils the science of disaster. Building on personal stories and scientific research on these devastative waves, James Goff and Walter Dudley arm readers with everything they need to survive a tsunami-and maybe even avoid the next one.
Tsunami
When the earthquake that struck the Solomon Islands in 2013 produced tsunami waves that damaged the country’s infrastructure, it was one in a recent string of reminders of the devastating effects these ferocious waves can have. From the 2011 tsunami in Japan to the giant waves that killed people near the Indian Ocean in 2004, these destructive events can utterly overwhelm an area not just with water but economic, social, and political devastations. But as Richard Hamblyn demonstrates in this cultural, historical, and scientific engagement with these spectacular natural phenomena, tsunamis remain misunderstood—their triggers, from undersea earthquakes to nuclear weapons testing, have only begun to be studied scientifically in the last fifty years. Tsunami explores how these treacherous sea-surges happen, what makes them so powerful, and what can be done to safeguard vulnerable coastlines. Hamblyn details their cultural significance in tsunami-prone places such as Japan, Hawaii, and Chile, while also considering their importance in the more seismically stable West, where their appearances are limited to popular culture and blockbuster films. From the legend of Atlantis to the present day, this book casts new light on these deadly waves.