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Author : John R. Baker
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1515717879
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (157 download)
Download or read book The World's Worst Floods written by John R. Baker and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes history's biggest and most destructive floods from around the world"--
Author : Lesley Newson
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN 13 : 9780789435187
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Devastation! written by Lesley Newson and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easy-to-follow explanations help you understand the underlying causes of all types of disasters.
Author : John Obert Voll
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Sudan written by John Obert Voll and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Perdew
Publisher : All-Time Worst Disasters
ISBN 13 : 9781632355355
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (553 download)
Download or read book The 12 Worst Fires of All Time written by Laura Perdew and published by All-Time Worst Disasters. This book was released on 2019 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disasters are fascinating, awe-inspiring, and scary, all at the same time. Lean the facts about many of the worst disasters in human history. Then get some tips on how to prepare for disasters and stay safe.
Author : Charles Hofer
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1538325705
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (383 download)
Download or read book Washed Away by Floods written by Charles Hofer and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When thinking about natural disasters, floods probably aren't the first thing that come to mind. However, a sudden rise in water level can cause great destruction and even death. This book explores where and why floods occur and features photographs of the incredible damage they can cause. Readers will learn how people survived some of the worst floods in recent history as well as new prediction methods to help avoid the damage and destruction floods can cause. This book was designed to support the elementary earth science curricula and STEM topics are covered throughout.
Author : Matthew C Bumgarner
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570720192
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Floods of July 1916 written by Matthew C Bumgarner and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From July 15 to July 16, 1916, U.S. rainfall records were shattered as more than 22 inches of rain fell on the already saturated North Carolina mountains during a 24-hour period. An estimated 80–90 percent of this deluge rushed down the mountainsides into the region’s already swollen streams and rivers, which crested high above their normal flood stages. This volume details the awesome drama of this natural emergency.
Author : Jim E. O'Connor
Publisher : Geological Survey (USGS)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The World's Largest Floods, Past and Present written by Jim E. O'Connor and published by Geological Survey (USGS). This book was released on 2004 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louise Spilsbury
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1499430736
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (994 download)
Download or read book Top 10 Worst Floods written by Louise Spilsbury and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typhoons, monsoons, cyclones, and bursting dams – readers will be transfixed by the floods these monster storms create. Photographs capture these breathtaking phenomena and their devastating effects on human society. This exploration of the ten worst floods humanity has endured will be a key feature in STEM, history, and geography curricula. Readers will delve into scientific explanations for these disasters, gain experience with maps, and ponder critical thinking questions that assess their understanding of this fascinating topic.
Author : Tracy Maureen Nelson Maurer
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1496621336
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (966 download)
Download or read book The World's Worst Avalanches written by Tracy Maureen Nelson Maurer and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An earthquake shakes a snow-covered mountain. The fresh snow slides down. It's an avalanche!
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416561226
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Johnstown Flood written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
Author : Tracy Maureen Nelson Maurer
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1496621344
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (966 download)
Download or read book The World's Worst Tsunamis written by Tracy Maureen Nelson Maurer and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water rushes out to sea out of nowhere. Suddenly, huge waves come crashing inland. It's a tsunami!
Author : Utpal Sandesara
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616144327
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book No One Had a Tongue to Speak written by Utpal Sandesara and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 11, 1979, after a week of extraordinary monsoon rains in the Indian state of Gujarat, the two mile-long Machhu Dam-II disintegrated. The waters released from the dam’s massive reservoir rushed through the heavily populated downstream area, devastating the industrial city of Morbi and its surrounding agricultural villages. As the torrent’s thirty-foot-tall leading edge cut its way through the Machhu River valley, massive bridges gave way, factories crumbled, and thousands of houses collapsed. While no firm figure has ever been set on the disaster’s final death count, estimates in the flood’s wake ran as high as 25,000. Despite the enormous scale of the devastation, few people today have ever heard of this terrible event. This book tells, for the first time, the suspenseful and multifaceted story of the Machhu dam disaster. Based on over 130 interviews and extensive archival research, the authors recount the disaster and its aftermath in vivid firsthand detail. The book presents important findings culled from formerly classified government documents that reveal the long-hidden failures that culminated in one of the deadliest floods in history. The authors follow characters whose lives were interrupted and forever altered by the flood; provide vivid first-hand descriptions of the disaster and its aftermath; and shed light on the never-completed judicial investigation into the dam’s collapse.
Author : Geoff Williams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639361383
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Washed Away written by Geoff Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of a flood of near-biblical proportions -- its destruction, its heroes and victims, and how it shaped America's natural-disaster policies for the next century. The storm began March 23, 1913, with a series of tornadoes that killed 150 people and injured 400. Then the freezing rains started and the flooding began. It continued for days. Some people drowned in their attics, others on the roads when they tried to flee. It was the nation's most widespread flood ever—more than 700 people died, hundreds of thousands of homes and buildings were destroyed, and millions were left homeless. The destruction extended far beyond the Ohio valley to Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, New York, New Jersey, and Vermont. Fourteen states in all, and every major and minor river east of the Mississippi. In the aftermath, flaws in America's natural disaster response system were exposed, echoing today's outrage over Katrina. People demanded change. Laws were passed, and dams were built. Teams of experts vowed to develop flood control techniques for the region and stop flooding for good. So far those efforts have succeeded. It is estimated that in the Miami Valley alone, nearly 2,000 floods have been prevented, and the same methods have been used as a model for flood control nationwide and around the world.
Author : Robin Johnson
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780778723967
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (239 download)
Download or read book What Is a Flood? written by Robin Johnson and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floods are natural disasters that can be brought on by severe weather. In this informative title readers will learn about what causes flooding, different types of floods, where they most often occur, flood warnings and alerts, and what we can do before, during, and after floods occur to stay safe.
Author : Merlyn Janet Magner
Publisher : SDSHS Press
ISBN 13 : 0984504117
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Come Into the Water written by Merlyn Janet Magner and published by SDSHS Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid City, South Dakota, June 9, 1972... 238 people died, 5 are still missing. In the midst of one of the worst floods in the history of the US, one young woman clung to the roof of a house. Merlyn Magner survived, but she lost her brother, mother, and father. Questions coursed through her mind then and for much of the rest of her life: Why did this happen? Why did my family die? Why did I survive? Rescued from that rooftop, Merlyn set out to find the answers to these questions.
Author : Leland Fetzer
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780932653734
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (537 download)
Download or read book San Diego County Place Names, A to Z written by Leland Fetzer and published by Sunbelt Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1,500 place names in San Diego County. Each listing gives general location and specific citation of place name origin.
Author : John R. Baker
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 1515717917
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (157 download)
Download or read book The World's Worst Floods written by John R. Baker and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes history's biggest and most destructive floods from around the world"--
