Eruption! [electronic resource] : volcanoes and the science of saving lives / text by Elizabeth Rusch ; photographs by Tom Uhlman.

9780544210721 electronic book
0547503504
9780547503509

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2013.

English

1 online resource (76 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps.

QE521.3 .R86 2013eb

363.34/95

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 75) and index.

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Scientists in the field.

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