Defines tsunamis and describes the geologic forces that cause them, as well as the damage they can inflict when the huge walls of ocean water strike land.

Jack and Annie research tsunamis and other natural disasters and find out the true facts.

A wealthy man in a Japanese village, who everyone calls Ojiisan, which means grandfather, sets fire to his rice fields to warn the innocent people of an approaching tsunami.

The disaster felt around the world . . .

Visiting his dad's hometown in Japan four months after his father's death would be hard enough for Ben. But one morning the pain turns to fear: first, a massive earthquake rocks the quiet coastal village, nearly toppling his uncle's house. Then the ocean waters rise and Ben and his family are swept away-and pulled apart-by a terrible tsunami.Now Ben is alone, stranded in a strange country a million miles...

The gripping story of the geological discoveries, and the scientists who uncovered them, that signal the imminence of a catastrophic tsunami on the Northwest Coast.

Explains that a major earthquake and resulting tsunamis are likely to occur off the Pacific Northwest coast any time within the next two hundred years, arguing that the effects of the disaster will be far worse than the damage from the 2004 Sumatran quake and tsunamis.

Explains that a major earthquake and resulting tsunamis are likely to occur off the Pacific Northwest coast any time within the next two hundred years, arguing that the effects of the disaster will be far worse than the damage from the 2004 Sumatran quake and tsunamis.

"A priestess by birth on the Bronze Age island that is now Santorini, Leira finds her coming-of-age training cut short when an earthquake destroys her town and leaves her powerful mother disabled. Warned by an oracle that worse is yet to come, the family flees to Crete but finds no sanctuary. A tsunami sends the island into anarchy and Leira must hide her noble status and learn new kinds of strength to help what remains of her family to survive."--Provided...

"One winter's night in the year 1700, a mysterious tsunami flooded fields and washed away houses in Japan. It arrived without the warning that a nearby earthquake usually provides. Samurai, merchants, and villagers recorded the event, but nearly three centuries would pass before discoveries in north America revealed the tsunami's source." -- Back cover.