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Gordon Gumpertz

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Gordon Gumpertz, author of action/adventure novels Tsunami, Red Hot Sky, and Life's Blood, began writing fiction after wrapping up a successful advertising career. He headed a Los Angeles ad agency that served Procter & Gamble, Honda Motors, Blue Shield, Mitsui Bank, Quaker State Oil, and Kawasaki, and handled a blue chip list of national and regional clients in fast food, banking, insurance, fashion, and food manufacturing.
In addition to serving as agency president, Gordon kept his hand in as a copywriter and guided the creative campaigns of many of the agency's clients. He was also active in advertising industry affairs, serving as president of the Western States Advertising Agencies Association, and on the Board of Governors of the Ameri Gordon Gumpertz, author of action/adventure novels Tsunami, Red Hot Sky, and Life's Blood, began writing fiction after wrapping up a successful advertising career. He headed a Los Angeles ad agency that served Procter & Gamble, Honda Motors, Blue Shield, Mitsui Bank, Quaker State Oil, and Kawasaki, and handled a blue chip list of national and regional clients in fast food, banking, insurance, fashion, and food manufacturing.
In addition to serving as agency president, Gordon kept his hand in as a copywriter and guided the creative campaigns of many of the agency's clients. He was also active in advertising industry affairs, serving as president of the Western States Advertising Agencies Association, and on the Board of Governors of the American Advertising Agencies Association.
Gordon is a third generation Californian. He was born in San Diego and raised in Oxnard,
CA where his father was a grower and shipper of California vegetables. After a four-year stint in the army he finished his studies at UCLA, graduating with a BA in Sociology. He learned to fly at Santa Monica airport, became instrument rated, and has enjoyed hundreds of hours of cross country flying, including trips to New York, and La Paz in Baja California.
Gordon has a son, a daughter, and two grandchildren. He and his wife Jenny live in Palm Desert, California, and will celebrate their 40th anniversary next year. His favorite pastimes are reading, traveling, cruising, tennis, and hiking, as a member of the Sierra Club.
While doing research for his novels, all of which have underlying natural disaster themes, he became interested in earth science and started blogging on natural disasters and other earth science subjects. He posts a weekly blog on tsunamis, volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, droughts, meteor strikes, rogue waves, plate tectonics, and related topics at www.tsunaminaturaldisasteer.com.
Gordon is a member of the Palm Springs Writers Guild. In addition to his adventure novels, he writes short stories that have won gold and silver awards in national and regional competitions. He is presently working on his fourth novel, and hopes to write several more before they finally put him out to pasture.
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Dangerous Volcano Comes Back to Life

Will the world ever see another volcanic blowout like that of Mount Tambora in 1815 that killed 92,000 and darkened our planet’s skies for a year? Or of Mount Krakatau that exploded in 1883 taking 32,000 lives and obliterating an island? Or Mount Vesuvius in 79AD that buried the city of Pompeii in ash and molten rock 23 ft (7m) deep?

According to an article in a recent issue of Nature Communication

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	TSUNAMI 3.98 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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