Earthquake Ancestors

These findings aren’t any too reassuring for those living on a fault line. The two smaller quakes, whose occurrences could not have been predicted based on the big one preceding them, were still devastating enough to go down in history— at least in ink, if not in sand.

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Video: Earthquakes [When Nature Strikes Back]
This film examines some of the most powerful earthquakes in history and through eyewitness accounts and interviews with leading scientists tries to understand their underlying causes.

Video: Landslides [When Nature Strikes Back]
This film portrays the unbelievable power of a mudslide, with interviews with those who have lost relatives and scientists working to save lives.

Video: Sense Of Danger - How Animals Anticipate Disaster
A compelling documentary that explores a previously unknown phenomenon of how animals around the world use their senses to predict approaching disasters.

Surviving a Tsunami - Lessons from Chile, Hawaii, and Japan
http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1187/

Giant Earthquake Predictions Aided by Historical Data
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0915_050915_earthquake_2.html