The Science of an Earthquake

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Published in the United States of America by Cherry Lake Publishing Ann Arbor Michigan www cherrylakepublishing com Consultants Jennifer Rivers Cole Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Harvard University Marla Conn ReadAbility Inc Editorial direction Red Line Editorial Book design and illustration Design Lab Photo Credits Sadik Gulec Shutterstock Images cover 1 Anthon Jackson Shutterstock Images 5 Dorling Kindersley Thinkstock 7 10 13 Richard Ward Dorling Kindersley RF Thinkstock 11 Deanne Fitzmaurice San Francisco Chronicle Corbis 14 Design Lab 17 iBird Shutterstock Images 18 AFLO Nippon News Corbis 20 Roger Ressmeyer Corbis 23 Pallava Bagla Corbis 24 Shakil Adil AP Images 27 Copyright 2015 by Cherry Lake Publishing All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sepahban Lois author The science of an earthquake by Lois Sepahban pages cm Disaster science Audience Age 11 Audience Grades 4 to 6 Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 978-1-63137-629-0 hardcover ISBN 978-1-63137-674-0 pbk ISBN 978-1-63137-719-8 pdf ebook ISBN 978-1-63137-764-8 hosted ebook 1 Earthquakes Juvenile literature 2 Earthquakes Safety measures Juvenile literature 3 Earthquake prediction Juvenile literature I Title QE521 3 S47 2015 551 22 dc23 2014004035 Cherry Lake Publishing would like to acknowledge the work of The Partnership for 21st Century Skills Please visit www p21 org for more information Printed in the United States of America Corporate Graphics Inc July 2014 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lois Sepahban has taught every grade from kindergarten to high school She grew up in California and remembers waking during the night to the shaking of the Northridge earthquake of 1994 In her free time she reads books writes stories and rescues animals