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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: | 76,748th |
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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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| 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 - 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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| 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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| 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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| National Geographic - Volcano!
Starring: National Geographic
Travel around the world for a firsthand look at volcanoes - perhaps the most dazzling but destructive natural force on earth. Massive volcanic eruption can turn day into night, releasing the power of an atomic blast, spewing toxic avalanches of lava, gas, and ash. National Geographic Video transports you to some of the world's most notorious volcanoes, including Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines and Japan's Mount Unzen. Join volcanologists in their dangerous quest to forecast eruptions and save...
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