Now you know disasters
By: Doug Lennox
Contributors: Gibson Library Connections, Inc
Publisher: Dundurn Group
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto [Ont.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781770703315; 9781459718104; 9781550028072
Subjects: Miscellanea; Accidents; Disasters
Description: Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and tidal waves, fires, mine cave-ins, bridge collapses, ship sinkings, airplane crashes, explosions, and plagues -- natural and human-engineered calamity and catastrophe have many forms and guises. In Now You Know Disasters, Q & A ringmaster Doug Lennox showcases the what, why, when, where, who, and how of everything that's gone tragically and terribly wrong, past and present. How does a tsunami occur?Why do Canadian engineers wear iron rings?Who was Richter in the Richter scale?What was the worst freshwater ship disaster ever in North America?What is.
Table of contents: title: Avalanches and landslides; title: Disaster in the air; title: Earthquakes; title: Epidemics; title: Explosions; title: Volcanoes; title: Shipwrecks; title: Tsunamis; title: Fire; title: Falling bridges; title: Famines; title: Terrorism and mass murder; title: Cosmic cataclysms.