Real Life: Megaquake
Wednesday at 9.30pm
Megaquake
Sendai - Japan, March 11th 2011 - 14:46 local time.
A ten metre high wall of water sweeps across the landscape as far as the eye can see. Houses, boats and burning debris ride atop the surging wave. Tokyo shakes to its very foundations. CCTV captures shop assistants scrambling as ceilings splinter and fall. Japan is enveloped in chaos. The trigger - one of the top-ten most powerful earthquakes in recorded history. 8.9 on the Richter scale. 8000 times more powerful than the Christchurch quake just a few weeks earlier.
By nightfall, over 200 people are confirmed dead & and over 88,000 still missing.
This fast turnaround documentary special pieces together the tectonic anatomy, scientific impact, global threat and future implications of one the most earth-shattering seismic events in history.
Anatomy of a Superquake
We'll piece together what happened to the Pacific Ring of Fire
as the tectonic plates snap, buckle and twist. We'll unravel the
chain of events in the seconds and minutes which follow & as
the ocean jumps several feet in the air, whirlpools spin off the
coast, water surges ten miles inland, solid earth liquefies &
and a tidal wave speeds across the Pacific Ocean at 500 miles an
hour.
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