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| View Larger Image | Nova: Earthquake | DVDStarring: Nova
Directed By: Nova
| List Price: | $19.95 | | Price: | $17.99 | | You Save: | $1.96 (10%) | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 56 minutes | | Format: | Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC | | Studio: | WGBH BOSTON | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Release Date: | November 06, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 76,278th |
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FEATURES | - Only fools, charlatans and liars predict earthquakes. So quipped the late Charles Richter, who knew enough about nature s ultimate upheavals to invent the scale by which they are measured. Nevertheless, prediction is the siren song of earthquake studies the alluring problem on which reputations can be won or wrecked. Not just careers, but million of lives and billions of dollars depend on
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Product Description
Will the earth send us a warning signal before the next "big one" strikes? Predicting earthquakes is risky business, but Earthquake shows how today's advanced technology helps geologists interpret nature's rumblings. |
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| Nature Tech - Earthquakes (History Channel)
Starring: Artist Not Provided
This explores the evolution of 21st century seismic technology to see what advancements are being made to assist seismologists & other researchers in the race to prevent the next earthshaking disaster. Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: 04/24/2007
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| NOVA - Killer Quake!
Metropolitan Los Angeles is sitting on ground zero. Slicing under the highrises of downtown is a network of potentially deadly faults which could trigger the nation's most devastating natural disaster. On January 17, 1994 a previously unknown fault convulsed beneath Northridge. It was the most destructive earthquake in modern Los Angeles history. NOVA takes viewers from urban trench sites to the top of the Santa Susanna Mountains, in search of clues to where nature will strike next.
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| Nova: Earthquake the Science Behind the Shake
Starring: Nova
Directed By: n/a
Included in this three disk set are: Earthquake, Killer Quake and
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| NOVA - In the Path of a Killer Volcano
Starring: Hal Holbrook
Directed By: Noel Buckner; Rob Whittlesey
The Philippines' Mount Pinatubo is about to blow big. Is there enough time to evacuate the hundreds of thousands in its raging path? Stay with the scientists who remain behind- and see some astonishing footage of the world's largest volcanic eruption in 80 years. Local tribespeople were the first to see the signs. "There was a flash of light from the sky," said one. "I thought it was my time to die." The Philippines' Mount Pinatubo was acting restless- and the volcanologists at Clark Air...
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| How the Earth Was Made (History Channel)
Starring: How the Earth Was Made
Directed By: Peter Chin
From a once seething, hellish mass of molten rock to the world that inhabits life today, take a rollercoaster ride through the entire history of Planet Earth. Its 4.5 billion year epic, a story of unimaginable timescales, earth-shattering forces, incredible life forms, radical climates and mass extinctions. Discover how the continents were formed, canyons were carved, and why the world's animals live where they do.
DVD Features: Additional Scenes; Bonus Documentary Inside the Volcano
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