Earthquakes

Publisher : Lerner Publications

ISBN-13 : 0822547112

Page : 66 pages

Rating : 4.5/5 from 112 voters

Describes what earthquakes are and explains what causes them and tells what happened during and after major earthquakes that have occurred in the past two hundred and fifty years.

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