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Please find in this section some resources specially dedicated to 6 to 12 years old kids.

We regularly select in our database the resources that best suits the kids interests.

Theme list (9) :

When Earth gets angry    Water, a treasure to preserve    Most curious    Prehistoric and historic times    Kids around the world    The European Union at a glance    Environment and nature    Animals in the spotlight    The exciting world of space

Theme: When Earth gets angry

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Japan quake Saturday's quake is the most powerful to rock an inland area of the tremor-prone nation in eight years.

17/06/2008   see

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New study sheds light on mysterious "supershear" quakes A French-Turkish team of seismologists on Thursday said they had found evidence about the impacts of a rare but extremely violent earthquake called a super ...

06/06/2008   see

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To predict quakes, listen to the animals, Chinese survivors say Well before the city of Tangshan was destroyed by an earthquake 32 years ago, the coming disaster was loudly preceded by strange animal behaviour and other ...

26/05/2008   see

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US scientists predict impact of a big quake on California If the much-feared "Big One" struck California, the massive earthquake would leave 1,800 dead, 50,000 wounded and 200 billion dollars in damage, a team of ...

23/05/2008   see

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Sichuan earthquake Authorities race to head-off outbreaks of disease in towns and villages where thousands of victims remain buried under trouble.

23/05/2008   see

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Cyclones: How and where cyclones and other tropical storms occur Formation, cyclone conditions, coriolist force and deadliest cyclones.

21/05/2008   see

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Rules for earthquake-resistant buildings Adapt foundations to ground type, use good quality buildings, take account of building size.

16/05/2008   see

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The most deadly earthquakes in the past 100 years Epicentres, deaths and tectonic plates.

14/05/2008   see

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The Richter scale Measures energy waves emitted by earthquakes.

14/05/2008   see

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Search and rescue in collapsed buildings The different stages to rescue victims trapped under heavy debris.

14/05/2008   see

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Eruptions subside at Sicily's Mount Etna The eruptions that have shaken the Mount Etna volcano on the southern Italian island of Sicily have subsided, experts said Sunday at the Palermo Geophysics ...

12/05/2008   see

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Tropical cyclone: a vast and deadly vortex Also known in Asia as typhoons, but more often in the West under the general name of hurricanes, cyclones are storms that rotate around a moving centre of ...

06/05/2008   see

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Natural catastrophes will grow with climate change Natural catastrophes in 2007 were more frequent and costlier than a year earlier and climate change will make them more expensive still, the world's second ...

28/12/2007   see

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Indian Ocean tsunami anniversary on December 26, 2004 A 9.3-magnitude earthquake set of a series of tsunamis killing more than 220,000 people.

26/12/2007   see

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Soft, green rock plays role in earthquakes A dark green, unusually soft layer of rock known as serpentine, which coats tectonic plates, plays a key role in the emergence of powerful earthquakes, a U ...

21/12/2007   see

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Pacific Ocean's deadly volcanoes Cut-away view of an active volcanoe.

11/12/2007   see

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Natural disasters have quadrupled in two decades More than four times the number of natural disasters are occurring now than did two decades ago, British charity Oxfam said in a study Sunday that largely ...

26/11/2007   see

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Red Sea volcano erupts for third straight day A volcano on a Yemeni island in the Red Sea was spewing a deadly mix of lava and ash for the third straight day on Tuesday, after erupting for the first ti ...

03/10/2007   see