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Transcripts For CSPAN2 The Great Quake 20170910

Which is incredibly long for an earthquake with the human tragedy and physical damage are dramatically and vividly captured in this book and by henry but on structures and though landscape is only part of the story that henry tells. His book is also a story of how a major Natural Disaster ginsberg scientific inquiries a map are centers around one individual in particular was a geologist he was not an earthquake expert better ride to the day after the earthquake to investigate what happened in the study that he produced help to confirm that now widely accepted idea of plate tectonics although at the time was controversial and much debated notion i will not even begin to get into that because you will get more of that from henry in a minute. This is his first book but he is skilled at combining the Human Interest story with the scientific advancement as a journalist and has b ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN2 The Great Quake 20170916

Californian disaster. You dont think about alaska unless perhaps youre an earthquake specialist or some trivia master. But alaska is exactly where the great quake happened on march 27, 1964, at 9. 2 on the Richter Scale. It was the biggest earthquake ever recorded in north america and the second most powerful in world history. Does anyone know the most powerful . [inaudible] the answer is chile in 1960, and that when registered 9. 5. The white and alaska lasted more than four minutes which is an incredibly long time for an earthquake. The human tragedy and physical damage of it all are dramatically and vividly captured by henry in his book, but the impact on people, on structures and on the landscape is only part of the story that henry tales. His book also is a story about how a major Natural Disaster ended up spurring scientific inquiries. And that part of the story center ....

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