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Este libro recoge los testimonios de varios supervivientes del terremoto que arrasó buena parte de Nepal el pasado 25 de abril. Relatos donde la destrucción, el desconcierto, el dolor y la pérdida desembocan en un rayo de esperanza.
Un punto de reunión de voces y miradas dispares sobre un mismo suceso, experiencias distintas vividas en un mismo país a una misma fatídica hora. Un racimo de reflexiones sobre lo que supone sobrevivir a un desastre...
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Alwyn Scarth is the author of numerous books, including Savage Earth (HarperCollins), Vulcan's Fury, and La Catastrophe.
The volcano that has fascinated scientists, writers, and poets for two millennia
Capricious, vibrant, and volatile, Vesuvius has been and remains one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes. In its rage, it has destroyed whole cities and buried thousands alive. In its calm, its ashes have fertilized the soil, providing for the...
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El autor presenta los hechos y datos ordenados cronológicamente, analiza y contrasta las fuentes consultadas y da cuenta de impactantes relatos de quienes fueron testigos o presenciaron las consecuencias de tales sucesos; asimismo, confirma la ocurrencia de 3304 eventos sísmicos, entre "recios", "medianos", "ligeros", "regulares" y "débiles" durante el periodo materia de la investigación.
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Muchos han creído que la Atlántida es una historia de ficción creada por Platón. Bien, pues Platón no fue el primero en escribir sobre ella. Hemos encontrado un documento mucho más antiguo. Fue escrito en el año 9619 AC, alrededor de 9250 años antes de los escritos de Platón. Además, hemos reunido evidencias científicas y arqueológicas suficientes para constatar que la Atlántida fue real. Y hemos hallado sus restos. Organizamos la evidencia...
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As the effects of two historic disasters reverberate in the backdrop of the Great Lisbon Earthquake (1755) and the Great East Japan Earthquake (2011) a love affair unfolds between a Portuguese woman Marina/Mariana and a Japanese man transcending time and space, interwoven with a twist for revenge and karmic tragedies.
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"Meredith White was one of Hollywood's most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then, on a muggy late summer day, a massive earthquake strikes Northern California, plunging the Bay Area into chaos. Without a moment's hesitation, Meredith invites her stunned and shaken neighbors...
69) Richter 10
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Political and environmental disasters come crashing down in this earthquake sci-fi thriller co-written by the authors of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Memories.
When he was seven years old, Lewis Crane survived the Los Angeles earthquake of 1994-but his parents did not. Haunted by the tragedy, Crane has dedicated his life to protecting humanity from similar disasters. Now he is a Nobel Prize-winning earthquake scientist who perfected equipment sensitive...
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"April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly...
73) Beyond me
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In the aftermath of a major earthquake, eleven-year-old Maya overcomes her own fear to help others at home and in northeast Japan, where a tsunami caused great damage. Includes author's note about the facts behind the story.
74) Fukushima 50
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March 11, 2011 2:46 PM, Japan's Tohoku Region: at a magnitude of 9.0, the strongest earthquake in the country's history strikes, triggering a huge tsunami and carnage that would end up killing thousands of people and displacing many more. It mercilessly engulfs the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture, causing a crippling station blackout. Unable to be cooled, the nuclear reactors quickly turn into hydrogen bombs at the brink...
75) Sisterland
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From an early age, Kate and her identical twin sister, Violet, knew that they were unlike everyone else. Kate and Vi were born with peculiar "senses"-innate psychic abilities concerning future events and other people's secrets. Though Vi embraced her visions, Kate did her best to hide them. Now, years later, their different paths have led them both back to their hometown of St. Louis. Vi has pursued an eccentric career as a psychic medium, while Kate,...
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From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles.
San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately...
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"In this thoughtful, mesmerizing tale with echoes of Station Eleven, the author of An Uncommon Education follows a group of survivors thrown together in the aftermath of two major earthquakes that strike San Francisco within an hour of each other--an achingly beautiful and lyrical novel about the power of nature, the resilience of the human spirit, and the enduring strength of love. On Valentine's Day, two major earthquakes strike San Francisco within...
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"The Pacific Northwest lies in ruins in the aftermath of the 9.2 Cascadia earthquake. There is a tsunami at the coast, annihilated infrastructure in all the towns and cities, and failed dams in the Oregon river valley where 15-year-old Cielo lives with her mother, a fearful evangelical who's become caught up in a fearsome cult called The Collection of Redeemed Souls. Cielo and her mother, Mexican citizens without U.S. papers, have always had their...
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Considérée dans son ensemble, la France présente un caractère de symétrie depuis longtemps remarqué. Son contour ne s'éloigne pas beaucoup de celui d'un hexagone régulier et, de ses six ctés, trois sont des frontières maritimes, pendant que deux autres, les Pyrénées et les Alpes sont montagneuses. Seule, sa frontière du Nord-Est, de Belfort à Dunkerque, est ouverte. Ces circonstances tiennent à ce que, malgré la très grande diversité...
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