Earth Shattering Earthquakes
By Anita Ganeri
2000
First Published
3.85
Average Rating
128
Number of Pages
An introduction to earthquakes discusses the causes and characteristics of quakes, earthquake folklore, notable earthquakes and seismologists, aftershocks, methods of predicting and surviving earthquakes, and future quakes.
Avg Rating
3.85
Number of Ratings
230
5 STARS
28%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
5%
1 STARS
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Author
Anita Ganeri
Author · 72 books
Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing (as an editor). Since then, she has written over 300 titles, including the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic. The series won the Geographical Association Silver Award in 1999 and was cited as being ‘an innovation that all geographers will applaud’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society where she conducts most of her research for the books.
