Fault Lines: Understanding the Power of Earthquakes
To my parents And to Tristan who will always wake me up when there is an earthquake
Table of Contents introdUction 6 chaPter one a Planet in Motion 10 Angry Gods 13 On the Move 13 Bump 15 Split 20 Slide 20 A Stressful Situation 22 Riding the Waves 24 chaPter tWo MagnitUdes and ePicenters 30 A Giant Pen 32 Measuring Magnitude 33 That’s a Lot of Energy 36 Locating Epicenters 38
chaPter three More than JUst shaking 44 Foreshocks and Aftershocks 47 Walls of Water 48 Walls of Earth 51 Liquefaction 52 Floods and Fires 54 Collapsing Buildings 55 chaPter foUr on the groUnd and in the skY 60 Warning 63 Getting a Head Start 66 All Together Now 70 Tools in the Sky 70 chaPter fiVe readY 74 Be Prepared Not Scared 77 Prepare Yourself 78 Prepare Your Home 80 Prepare Your Family 84 And Remember 85 acknoWledgMents 88 resoUrces 91 glossarY 92 indeX 94
