Help your child learn all about volcanoes using the new edition of this fact-packed guide with a giant wallchart, interactive clip-art CD and dedicated website.

From the vast Mount St Helens eruption and the enormous damage it caused to what happens in an earthquake, and how people can survive it: let your child learn all about the terrifying volcanoes and devastating earthquakes.

An unstable Earth

Fire from below

The world on a plate

When a mountain explodes

Ash and dust

Fiery rocks

Gas and lightning

Hot spots

Spreading ridges

The great eruption of Vesuvius

A modern Pompeii: St Pierre

Affecting the world's weather

Steam vents and boiling mud

Sleeping beauties

Life returns to the lava

Being a volcanologist

Volcanoes on other planets

When the earth moves

Intensity and magnitude

Waves of destruction

Measuring earthquake waves

Mud, flood, and avalanche

State of emergency

Preparing for disaster

Anger of the gods

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Timeline

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Glossary

Index