Today in wananga we did silent reading and I read a book called Our Explosive Earth, this book was more of an informational book. This is how earthquakes are made, as the tectonic plates that make up the earths crust grind past eachother, they generate enormus frictional stress, Instead of gliding past eachother smoothly the huge slabs of rock move in a series of sudden jerks and judders. Place that live on the plate boundries have a 95 percent chance of getting a earthquake more than a region that is not on the plates. In alaska 1964 a magnitude 9.2 hit and it demolished hundreds of building and the liquifaction rose up to 11m tall so it was basicallly a tsunami of liquifaction.
Author: Readers Digest
Non-fiction text; I am glad you found it interesting. Next step- answer a critical literacy question.
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