Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.0
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1648
Points per Word
0.000303
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
This book recounts the events of a major tsunami in Hilo, Hawaii, in April of 1946. Just after midnight, a major underwater earthquake occured near Alaska, which caused a series of powerful tsunamis that traveled across the Pacific Ocean toward Hawaii.