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Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0399144005 / Publisher: Putnam Adult, February 1999
As the Midwest is threatened by a series of bizarre and deadly events, all harbingers of a monstrous earthquake similar to the ones that devastated the region in the early 1800s, two seismologists race against time to stop the disaster to come
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The stories are the stuff of legend, and they are all true. In 1811 and 1812, three mammoth earthquakes measuring 8 on the Richter scale ruptured an area spanning twenty-four states and a third of the landmass of the United States. Lakes formed in Tennessee, church bells rang in Boston, and the mighty Mississippi ran backward.But today it's all a distant memory. Until the underground force reawakens.
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