Fearless Planet
Will Gadd hosts this Discovery Channel series exploring the history and formation of some of the Earth’s extreme landscapes.
Will Gadd hosts this Discovery Channel series exploring the history and formation of some of the Earth’s extreme landscapes.
Earthquakes occur along fault lines, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Italy. Fault Lines follows the history of these places before and after their destruction, explores plans and developments that preceded the disasters, and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins.
In 1783, strong earthquakes shook Calabria. These events, in combination with a dry sulfuric fog, led contemporaries to believe they lived in the time of a “subsurface revolution.”
This article explores the materialization of the Anthropocene at the local level.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Deborah R. Coen is interviewed on her recent book, The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter.