Home > Science & Math > Earth Sciences > Natural Disasters
Natural Disasters
The Wizard of Sun City: The Strange True Story of Charles Hatfield, the Rainmaker Who Drowned a City's Dreams by Garry Jenkins
epub |eng | 2005-06-27 | Author:Garry Jenkins [Jenkins, Garry]

Hatfield’s name was on almost every tongue in San Diego yesterday. Many were inclined to jest when his operations were mentioned, but all agreed that things were coming his way. ...
( Category: American Revolution May 9,2019 )
Prepper Guns: Firearms, Ammo, Tools, and Techniques You Will Need to Survive the Coming Collapse by Bryce Towsley
epub | | 2016-03-09 | Author:Bryce Towsley

Ruger Mini-14. The author shooting the Ruger Mini-14. This is a good choice for a personal-defense long gun. The Mini-14 comes with two twenty-round magazines, but aftermarket magazines are available ...
( Category: Sports March 10,2019 )
Ring of Fire by Hinga Bethany;
epub |eng | | Author:Hinga, Bethany;

Mexico City Earthquake, Mexico (1985) On September 19, 1985, Mexico was hit with a magnitude 8 earthquake. Its epicenter was in a subduction zone in the western part of the ...
( Category: Natural Disasters February 26,2019 )
The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley
epub, pdf |eng | 2006-06-07 | Author:Douglas Brinkley [Douglas Brinkley]

VIII The Baton Rouge Advocate, which considered itself the state’s newspaper, felt an obligation to cover every stricken community in its pages. One especially harrowing story, written by Sandy Davis, ...
( Category: State & Local June 8,2017 )
The Worst of Times by Paul B. Wignall
epub |eng | 2015-05-20 | Author:Paul B. Wignall

THE SMITHIAN/SPATHIAN EXTINCTION The Smithian and Spathian are the third and fourth stages of the Early Triassic respectively, and their boundary, around 2 million years after the Permo-Triassic boundary, marks ...
( Category: Paleontology May 21,2017 )
Asteroid Hunters by Carrie Nugent
epub |eng | | Author:Carrie Nugent

6 My Favorite Telescope Most asteroid hunters use telescopes sensitive to the wavelengths of light that our eyes can see. But there’s one asteroid-hunting telescope that uses a different type ...
( Category: Astronomy April 23,2017 )
How the World Breaks by Stan Cox
epub |eng | 2016-05-29 | Author:Stan Cox

COME SAIL AWAY The homeland of hydrocontrol has paid the price for its accelerated armoring of coast and riverbank, as more people and industries moved into better-defended land, raising higher ...
( Category: Natural Disasters August 12,2016 )
Retreat from a Rising Sea by Orrin H. Pilkey
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-23 | Author:Orrin H. Pilkey

Recently the Army Corps of Engineers declared that Fire Island, New York, had been “damaged” by Hurricane Sandy, a clear misunderstanding of barrier-island evolution processes. Some islands are narrow and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 8,2016 )
My Lost Brothers by Brendan McDonough
epub |eng | 2016-05-02 | Author:Brendan McDonough

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN One morning, we got a call to southern Arizona. A fire was burning out of control in what we call the wildland-urban interface, the point at which the ...
( Category: State & Local May 19,2016 )
Coming Back Alive by Spike Walker
epub |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Spike Walker

CHAPTER 6 When Lt. Bill Adickes walked down the short distance from his office and stepped into the Operations Center in the remote Coast Guard outpost in Sitka, Alaska, things ...
( Category: State & Local January 10,2016 )
Fire Outside My Window by Sandra Millers Younger
epub |eng | 2013-09-02 | Author:Sandra Millers Younger

Retirees Bob and Barbara Daly had also been forced back by the flames. Awakened by the sound of the wind rearranging their patio furniture, Bob Daly had immediately roused his ...
( Category: State & Local November 21,2015 )
The Wind in the Reeds by Wendell Pierce
epub |eng | 2015-08-16 | Author:Wendell Pierce

MY PROFESSIONAL MILESTONES didn’t always come wrapped in such noble mantles. There was the time I acted a fool and humiliated myself in public and spent the night in jail ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers October 11,2015 )
The Finest Hours by Michael J. Tougias
epub |eng | 2009-10-09 | Author:Michael J. Tougias

Bushy-browed WOCB newsman Ed Semprini had survived the grueling drive down snow-covered Route 28. The bad weather had not let up once during the twenty-one-mile trek from Hyannis to Chatham. ...
( Category: State & Local October 10,2015 )
The Storm of the Century by Al Roker
epub |eng | 2015-06-28 | Author:Al Roker

CHAPTER 10 THE NIGHT OF HORRORS AS NIGHT FELL ON GALVESTON, THE STORM ONLY GAINED strength. Isaac Cline’s realization had been correct: the hurricane that was passing straight through the ...
( Category: State & Local October 10,2015 )
Preppers Survival Box Set: 25 Strategies that Will Save Your Life plus 40 Tips on How to Construct a Shelter & Defend Yourself from Natural Catastrophes ... Survival, preppers survival pantry) by Jerry Cline & Kimberly Lee & Max Kessler
epub |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Jerry Cline & Kimberly Lee & Max Kessler [Cline, Jerry]

There's plenty of other stuff you can add to this list dependent on your location but unless you have access to a hardware store you don't want to go overboard. ...
( Category: Natural Disasters June 19,2015 )

First Prev [4] [5] [6] [7] 8 [9] [10] [11] [12] Next Last