NOVA

The Day the Earth Shook (23x2)

Uitzenddatum: Jan 16, 1996

On the same date in January one year apart, Earthquakes of almost identical power shook Northridge, California (1994) and Kobe, Japan (1995). NOVA probes why almost 100 times more people died in Japan than in the United States and what scientists have learned from the twin calamities.