The Big One: The Earthquake That Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science by Charles Officer, Jake Page

The Big One: The Earthquake That Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science

Charles Officer, Jake Page

256 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced

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In the early 1800s a series of gargantuan earth tremors seized the American frontier. Tremendous roars and flashes of eerie light accompanied huge spouts of water and gas. Six-foot-high waterfalls appeared in the Mississippi River, thousands of tr...

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