To Predict & Control Earthquakes
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
No other natural disaster can cause so much destruction and take so many lives in so few minutes as an earthquake. This film investigates the efforts of scientists to better understand the causes of earthquakes and to accurately forecast the time, size, and location of such disasters. The film discusses the concept of continental drift, which creates pressures leading to earthquakes, and examines the San Andreas Fault. 700 miles of the largest, most dangerous geological fracture in the earth s crust.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
Man uses a globe to point out the faults in the earth's crust. Interview w/ woman on the street about the possibility of an earthquake.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
DO NOT USE Rescuers working at an earthquake. Collapsed buildings.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
Scientist talking to the camera about earthquakes. Aerial shot of the San Andreas fault.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
Professor Tuzo Wilson explains the theory of continental drift. He uses a globe to point out land formations. Plate tectonics.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
DO NOT USE archival footage.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
Professor Tuzo Wilson explains the theory of continental drift. He uses a globe to point out land formations. Plate tectonics. Ocean ridgeCU of a seismpgraph.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
DO NOT USE Footage of the 1964 Alaska earthquake & aftermath.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
Dr. Barry Raleigh, a U.S. Government earthquake specialist (seismologist), talks about the possibility of predicting earthquakes. He is in his lab. Seismograph.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
DO NOT USE Archival footage of a house collapsing in an earthquake & flood. Japan.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
Scientists (geologists) look for changes in the rock. Using a strange type of geological survey camera. It uses lasers & an airplane to calculate the changes. CU of seismograph.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
DO NOT USE Archival earthquake footage.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
Pan across the skyline of Denver. Quick cuts to newspaper headlines of minor earthquakes. Dr. Barry Raleigh talks to camera about Denver quakes. Establishing shots of Rangley, Colorado. Oil pump which was probably casuing minor earthquakes. Dr. Barry Raleigh talks to camera. CU of seismograph.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
DO NOT USE Archival footage of 1906, San Francisco earthquake.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
Graphic of Calafornia showing all the quakes approximately 1940 - 1970.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
Men in a truck monitor several short wave radios for police, red cross, local government, etc. Ed Joyce, Director of San Francisco s Department of Emergency Services talks about earthquakes in San Francisco. Cut back & forth to interviews with people on the streets of San Francisco. Pan San Francisco bridges. Crowds of pedestrians on the street. People on street cars, communter train. Pan across empty Berkley stadium. Heavy traffic on a bridge.
To Predict & Control Earthquakes
Dr. Barry Raleigh talks about predicting earthquakes in San Francisco. CU of seismograph.