Earthquake (1974)

Charlton Heston stars
In this film about the Big
One hitting. Oh God.

This week's film: Earthquake. This is one of the trailblazers in the genre of Disaster Films, introducing the concept of an all-star cast getting smacked around by Mother Nature. Pretty sweet. When this film came out theaters installed a special feature called Sensurround -- essentially speakers pumping bass into the floor so that when the quake started in the film, the audience would feel rumbling. Again, pretty sweet, albeit gimmicky.

Here are this week's links:

USGS Response to the Northridge Earthquake This was the big quake that hit L.A. in 1994.

The Los Angeles Dam Story Ummm...Spoiler Warning...

LAFD Earthquake Preparedness Guide Now if the Big One hits, you'll know what to do.

Earthquake Prediction Why is earthquake prediction so tricky?

Reading responses for Dante's Peak are due by class time on Thursday, September 28. Hard copies or e-mails accepted. The e-mail address is now located in the profile (click "Mike & Sarah" to the left). If you hover your mouse over the "E-mail" link, the address will show up in the status bar at the bottom of your browser. Since this wasn't readily available for Volcano, feel free to submit those if you have them.

See you all Thursday!