Our topic today was all the natural disasters that Earth is prone to : earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, landslides, volcanoes — all the stuff that disaster movies thrive on, only we were more interested in the reality and the geology that’s behind all those disastrous events, not to mention how to communicate that reality to the public. More
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Read Science! Episode 16 : Disastrous Planet Edition
Our topic today was all the natural disasters that Earth is prone to : earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, landslides, volcanoes — all the stuff that disaster movies thrive on, only we were more interested in the reality and the geology that’s behind all those disastrous events, not to mention how to communicate that reality to the public.
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6 years ago • Read Science!, Video • Tags: Dynamics of Disaster, Google Hangout on Air, Jeff Shaumeyer, Joanne Manaster, Read Science!, Susan Kieffer, video