On January 10, 2005, people who lived in the small oceanfront town of La Conchita, California, were horrified to hear a loud rumble. Weakened by heavy rains, the mountain overlooking the town began to crumble. Thousands of tons of mud mowed over trees, houses, and people. When it stopped, a huge hill contained fifteen houses and up to twenty-one people. In the days that followed, rescue workers and townspeople worked together to save as many as possible....

"Two children try to create a mudslide on a playground and then learn about the dangers of real mudslides, as well as how wind, water, and ice erosion can shape the land"--

When fifteen-year-old Greyson Bennell volunteers to help with the cleanup effort after a massive mudslide devastates his California town, he is not expecting anything but some hard work--but this disaster was caused by a very peculiar storm and he soon realizes that the mud itself is making the other volunteers behave in an ominous manner.

Trapped inside his car by a mudslide, smooth-talking Jackson Alder suddenly finds himself in a situation he can't talk his way out of. With no hope of rescue, he must defy the odds, battling Mother Nature for his survival.

"In the last 500 years, nearly 300 million people have perished in earthquakes. Time and again, volcanic eruptions have destroyed cities, regions, and even entire countries. From the legendary fury of Mt. Vesuvius to the devastating convulsions of Kobe, Japan, 'Savage Earth' tells the stories of these great natural disasters, the scientists who struggle to understand and predict them, and the people whose lives are forever changed by their merciless...

"In the last 500 years, nearly 300 million people have perished in earthquakes. Time and again, volcanic eruptions have destroyed cities, regions, and even entire countries. From the legendary fury of Mt. Vesuvius to the devastating convulsions of Kobe, Japan, 'Savage Earth' tells the stories of these great natural disasters, the scientists who struggle to understand and predict them, and the people whose lives are forever changed by their merciless...

This book, in graphic novel format, describes avalanches and landslides, including the Wellington Avalanche of 1910, the Mount Huascaran Landslide of 1962, and the Philippine Mudslide of 2006.