NOVA : The Wave That Shook the World (2005)
Directed by Joseph McMaster / Lara Acaster / Alex Williams
Genres - Science & Technology |
Sub-Genres - Physical Sciences, Tragedies & Catastrophes |
Run Time - 60 min. |
Countries - United States |
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Synopsis
"The Wave That Shook the World" (on Dec. 26, 2004) offers an hour-by-hour timeline of the tsunami that killed 220,000 people and the earthquake (the fifth strongest in recorded history) that triggered it. The hour includes comments by scientists that are equal parts scientific dispassion and human emotion. But there's nothing dispassionate about the eyewitness accounts from Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka. "It was like the aftermath of an atomic bomb," says photojournalist Geoff Mackley.
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aftermath, analysis/analyst [study], disaster, earthquake, geology, India (subcontinent), Indonesia, ocean, seismologist, Sri Lanka, Thailand, tsunami
