When Nature Strikes Back: Earthquakes

http://www.janson.com/television/show_program.php?pid=1328 A lifetime of hard work and family possessions can be lost in a single instant during a devastating earthquake. This episode examines some of the most powerful earthquakes in history and tries to understand their underlying causes. Izmit, Turkey, was the site of a violent earthquake in 1999, and When Nature Strikes Back was there as Swiss and German rescue teams worked to save people who had been buried under a collapsed apartment complex.

We follow the story of Mehmet, a 14-year old boy who waits to see if his best friends are saved from the horrible disaster. San Francisco experienced a magnitude 7 earthquake in 1989 that collapsed a portion of a heavily traveled freeway. Arresting interviews with two rescue workers bring the viewer close to the scene in California, as rescue teams from the entire region work to save the last known survivor of that catastrophe. Professor Jochen Zschau of the Geo-Research Institute in Germany, explains the causes and effects of earthquakes and suggests how we might better prepare ourselves to survive.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Nature
• Earthquakes
• Environment
• Catastrophe
• Disaster
• Magnitude
• Devastating
• Powerful

[jodude5]

@Danny94James

yeah but japan is two year after

[Danny94James]

@jodude5 and japan

[suicune690]

What I wonder is, why don't humans sense earthquakes coming when everything else does?

[jodude5]

and now, a year after this vid was published, haiti falls in chaos after a devastating earthquake...

[robbiemac01]

the woman on this advert before it starts is unbelievable !!!!