Eyewitness Guides are best-selling, high-quality visual information books.
This title is a valuable resource to students whether they want to learn which float in water or how animals can detect an earthquake before people.

This book is part of a book series called Dk Eyewitness .

There are 72 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Dorling Kindersley Ltd .

Scott Steedman is the author of many history books, for both children and adults, on subjects ranging from Ancient Egypt to the American Indians. James Putnam is a curator, writer, and Egyptologist.

This book has the following chapters: 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; did you know?; timeline; find out more.