Eruption! [electronic resource] : volcanoes and the science of saving lives / text by Elizabeth Rusch ; photographs by Tom Uhlman.
2013
QE521.3 .R86 2013eb
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Title
Eruption! [electronic resource] : volcanoes and the science of saving lives / text by Elizabeth Rusch ; photographs by Tom Uhlman.
Author
Rusch, Elizabeth.
ISBN
9780544210721 electronic book
0547503504
9780547503509
0547503504
9780547503509
Publication Details
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (76 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps.
Call Number
QE521.3 .R86 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.34/95
Summary
An account of the work of volcanologists Andy Lockhart, John Pallister, and their team describes their life-risking efforts to investigate dangerous volcanoes that pose threats to more than one billion people worldwide.
"At 11:35 p.m., as Radio Armero played cheerful music, a towering wave of mud and rocks bulldozed through the village, roaring like a squadron of fighter jets." Twenty-three thousand people died in the 1985 eruption of Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz. Today, more than one billion people worldwide live in volcanic danger zones. In this riveting nonfiction book-filled with spectacular photographs and sidebars-Rusch reveals the perilous, adrenaline-fueled, life-saving work of an international volcano crisis team (VDAP) and the sleeping giants they study, from Colombia to the Philippines, from Chile to Indonesia.
"At 11:35 p.m., as Radio Armero played cheerful music, a towering wave of mud and rocks bulldozed through the village, roaring like a squadron of fighter jets." Twenty-three thousand people died in the 1985 eruption of Colombia's Nevado del Ruiz. Today, more than one billion people worldwide live in volcanic danger zones. In this riveting nonfiction book-filled with spectacular photographs and sidebars-Rusch reveals the perilous, adrenaline-fueled, life-saving work of an international volcano crisis team (VDAP) and the sleeping giants they study, from Colombia to the Philippines, from Chile to Indonesia.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 75) and index.
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Uhlman, Tom.
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Scientists in the field.
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Table of Contents
Sleeping giant
Never again
Mount Pinatubo
To evacuate or not to evacuate?
Volcano training camp
How do you watch a volcano you can't see?
Mount Merapi's next move
The mystery of the missing ash
What happened here?
Living and working in the shadow of a volcano
Volcanic vocabulary.
Never again
Mount Pinatubo
To evacuate or not to evacuate?
Volcano training camp
How do you watch a volcano you can't see?
Mount Merapi's next move
The mystery of the missing ash
What happened here?
Living and working in the shadow of a volcano
Volcanic vocabulary.