Earthquake Survival Kits

11 songs

Despite the destruction and death they leave behind, many of the worst disasters have a more positive legacy as well--an increased understanding of the forces we face and how to handle them. MODERN MARVELSTM examines five pivotal disasters that led to remarkable technological breakthroughs which have saved lives and communities...

We inhabit a planet that is ruled by the laws of physics, and as we learn in Dorling Kindersley's Eyewitness Video Natural Disasters, natural disasters are only natural processes pushed to the limits of science...

The breathtaking and dangerous explosion of a volcano speaks volumes about what happens below the Earth's crust. Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Video: Volcanos put the viewer in a front row seat that would be impossible to survive-in the molten hot and toxic environment of an exploding volcano...

Surveys the destruction of earthquakes, tornadoes, and volcanos and seeks to predict such events in order to diminish their damage.

Dismissed by seismologists and roasted by critics, 10.5 offers everything you'd expect from a cheesy camp-classic disaster flick. Originally broadcast on May 2 and 3, 2004, this $20 million NBC sweeps-week miniseries achieved its ratings goal (20 million viewers) by promising a respectable cast and spectacular digital effects to simulate "the Big One"--a series of fault-ripping earthquakes that re-shape the entire West Coast of the United States...

Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 06/27/2006

Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people...

Writing with a signature command of his subject and with compelling resonance, Marc Reisner leads us through California’s improbable rise from a largely desert land to the most populated state in the nation, fueled by an economic engine more productive than all of Africa...

Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the legendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its startling impact on American history and, just as important, what science has recently revealed about the fascinating subterranean processes that produced it—and almost certainly will cause it to strike again.