num_pages: 239
description: The author investigates a geological catastrophe story--the series of massive earthquakes, centered in what is now Missouri and Arkansas, at the start of the 1800s that wreaked almost unimaginable destruction on the American frontier--and speculates about the likelihood of a repeat performance.
language: English
title: The Big One: The Earthquake that Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science
titlecomplete: The Big One: The Earthquake that Rocked Early America and Helped Create a Science
genres: Science, Nonfiction, History, American History, Geology
ratings_count: 44
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt