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Documentaries on Japan's Great Tohoku Earthquake

Life In Japan - Videos
Written by Guillaume Erard   
Tuesday, 20 September 2011 02:45

Survivor of the massive Earthquake in JapanBesides being the fifth most powerful earthquake in the world overall since modern record-keeping began in 1900 with its magnitude of 9.0, the undersea megathrust earthquake that hit the Pacific coast of Tohoku in Japan on Friday 11th March 2011 is by far the most well documented in history. The data is still coming in but the body of evidence that is already available has allowed the making of very interesting documentaries. I would like to present two of these that were made respectively by the BBC and Channel 4. I use them regularly in my teaching of earth dynamic and thought they might be of interest to you.

I often find it difficult to select the right words when asked to relate the events that went on on the 11th of March 2011. In the following few days, tried my best to relate all of it in a journal-like format article what happened to me that day but as I also explained in another article, everyone felt and dealt with things in a different manner and therefore, the accounts might differ greatly from one individual to the other. It is however failry easy to understand the physical mechanisms that triggered this catastrophic events and the documentaries that I selected below give interesting explainations on the reasons underlying this phenomenal outburst of power.

The documentary was aired on the BBC an is presented by Iain Stewart, professor of Geoscience Communication at the University of Plymouth.

This documentary was aired on Channel 4 and is narrated by British actor Mark Strong.


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