📚 Earthquakes

When the ground moves: mechanisms, famous disasters, engineering against the shake, and prediction’s honest failures.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject earthquakes in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The San Francisco earthquake	Gordon Thomas	1971	17
	Earthquakes and the urban environment	G. Lennis Berlin	1980	16
	Earthquakes	Franklyn M. Branley	1990	13
	The Earth-Shaking Facts about Earthquakes with Max Axiom, Super Scientist	Katherine Krohn	2008	13
	Finding Chika	Mitch Albom	2019	13
	Earth Shattering Earthquakes (Horrible Geography)	Anita Ganeri	2000	12
	The night the mountain fell	Edmund Christopherson	1960	11
	Earthquakes	Bruce A. Bolt	1978	11
	Wild weather	Lorraine Jean Hopping	1994	11
	Earthquakes	Seymour Simon	1991	9
	Earthquakes	Mari C. Schuh	2010	9
	Earthquakes and Volcanoes	Fiona Watt	1993	8
	Rupture in south-central Alaska	Gary S. Fuis	2003	8
	Earthquakes and other earth movements	Milne, John	1886	7
	--If you lived at the time of the great San Francisco earthquake	Ellen Levine	1987	7
	Shattering Earthquakes (Awesome Forces of Nature)	Richard Spilsbury	2004	7
	World's Worst Earthquakes	John R. Baker	2016	7
	The Jupiter effect	John R. Gribbin	1974	6
	International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismoloy	William H. K. Lee	2002	5
	A crack in the edge of the world	Simon Winchester	2005	5
	The Lisbon earthquake	T. D. Kendrick	1956	4
	El terremoto de San Salvador	Porfirio Barba Jacob	1961	4
	How did we find out about earthquakes?	Isaac Asimov	1978	4
	Earthquake protection	Coburn, Andrew.	1992	4
	Earthquakes	David S. Brumbaugh	1998	4
	Can you survive an earthquake?	Rachael Hanel	2013	4
	Earthquakes	Yan Y. Kagan	2013	4
	The riddle of the Earth	Appian Way	1925	3
	Nada, Nadie / Nothing, No One	Elena Poniatowska	1988	3
	The Myth of Solid Ground	David L. Ulin	2004	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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