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	Earthquake (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Earthquake is the title of a blockbuster 1974 film that was among several successful so-called disaster films of the 1970s that places an all-star cast in life and death situations.
		When the film premiered in Chicago, Illinois, the head of the building and safety department demanded the system be turned down, as he was afraid it would cause structural damage.
		Earthquake II details the main characters adjusting to new lives in San Francisco as refugees from the Los Angeles quake of the original film, when another major, more catastrophic earthquake and tsunami strikes the Bay Area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earthquake_(film) (1588 words)

	Greatest Disaster Film Scenes
		Films have often depicted large-scale natural disasters (weather-related usually) or man-made calamities (a wreck at sea, an airplane crash), often accompanied by massive crowd scenes.
		This disaster film, advertised as "The Incredible Day That SHOOK the Earth to Its Core", was based on the most explosive volcanic eruption in recorded 19th century history - on August 27th, 1883, on the island of Krakatoa.
		The film employed hundreds of stunt extras for the massive crowd scenes, and effectively used matte drawings to depict the LA area suffering from a 9.9 level earthquake.
	www.filmsite.org /filmdisasters3.html (1210 words)

	From Big Screen to Small Screen: Earthquake and Superman
		When most films are released theatrically, they are seen in their intended entirety, with every violent act, sexual innuendo, and foul four-letter word, and when such films later appear on network television edited for violence, language, or sexual situations, they are somewhat shorter.
		Aside from removed profanity, the film on TV runs almost identically to its theatrical counterpart until the scene immediately after the second pre-shock, on the Hollywood Reservoir Dam, when the caretaker and the inspector are discussing the significance of a crack which they have discovered to have been formed by the second tremor.
		The earthquake occurs in the television version with more scenes of children in peril on a school bus, of the passengers on a train that is nearing a breech in the rails caused by the quake, and of workers at a hydroelectric dam where Jimmy Olsen, on assignment with Lane, is snapshooting pictures.
	www.kevinmccorrytv.com /earthsup.html (2935 words)

	Earthquakes, Megaquakes, and the Movies
		The two most important variables affecting earthquake damage are the intensity of ground shaking caused by the quake and the quality of the engineering of structures in the region.
		The level of shaking, in turn, is controlled by the proximity of the earthquake source to the affected region and the types of rocks that seismic waves pass through en route (particularly those at or near the ground surface).
		Earthquake magnitude is based in part on the length of faults -- the longer the fault, the larger the earthquake.
	earthquake.usgs.gov /learning/topics/megaquakes.php (920 words)

	Abbas Kiarostami
		The film credits appear, and immediately, a pattern emerges: all of the characters are portrayed by themselves, and the story is based of events that actually transpired.
		Sabzian explains that he was merely humoring the family's seeming interest in appearing in his film: a film that he, had he the financial means, would surely make.
		An unnamed, middle-aged film director (Farhad Kheradmand) stops at the tollbooth and inquires about the condition of the main road to Rudbar, having been turned back a day earlier at the intermediate town of Manjil due to the impassability of the route.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/kiarostami.html (1921 words)

	earthquake - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Earthquake, shaking of the Earth’s surface caused by rapid movement of the Earth’s rocky outer layer.
		Earthquake (motion picture), box-office hit disaster film about an enormous earthquake destroying Los Angeles.
		When the film was released in 1974, a...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=earthquake (164 words)

	EARTHQUAKE
		Filmed at the height of the disaster flick craze, I had hopes this film would be as engaging and exciting as THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE and THE TOWERING INFERNO, two of my tacky film favs.
		Unlike those films, I had a hard time enduring the many horrors of this bloated and boring epic, which are almost to numerous to count.
		Their nomination for Film Editing is equally astounding because as far as I could see the film needs to be about one and a half hours shorter.
	www.crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsE/f_earthquake.html (570 words)

	10.5
		Earthquakes are part of a global tectonic process that generally occurs well beyond the influence or control of humans.
		P-waves used to locate the earthquake, at about 2 to 3 miles/second, so a particular magnitude may not be available until a few minutes after the earthquake.
		The third is from the Nisqually earthquake in Washington, and the fourth is from the Loma Prieta earthquake in California.
	www.earthquakecountry.info /10.5/MajorMovieMisconceptions (2986 words)

	Teacher Resources - Collection - Great Earthquake and Fire: San Francisco, 1897-1916
		A film captures a distinct "place in time," and the films in this archive can be viewed for visual clues to what life was like in large cities and their emerging suburbs in the early twentieth century.
		In the film San Francisco Disaster, special effects wizards used a small-scale model of downtown San Francisco, flames of spectacular dimensions, and heavy puffs of smoke to simulate the great disaster of 1906.
		To commemorate the 90th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake and fire, the Museum of the City of San Francisco assembled an exhibit of eyewitness accounts entitled Eyewitnesses to the Earthquake and Fire.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/collections/sffilm/file.html (1794 words)

	EarthquakePrepared.com - Earthquake Protective Windowfilm
		The greatest cause of injury during an earthquake comes not from collapsing walls or failing understructure, but from one of the most common components of a home: its windows.
		Since most homes have at least one window in every room, a glass-shattering earthquake can put people in every part of the house in danger of serious injury within the first few seconds of impact.
		In the Loma Prieta California earthquake of 1989, for example, half of the 3,700 injuries were caused by broken or breaking glass.
	www.earthquakeprepared.com /earthquake-windowfilm.html (743 words)

	International Window Film Association
		It is proper, for example, to advertise that the film satisfies local building codes, but satisfaction of those codes does not certify the film is "safe" in earthquakes of all magnitudes and against all flying debris during those earthquakes.
		For example, "film is safer" may be qualified by explaining that windows are less likely to shatter in bad weather when film is applied to a window as compared to a window with no film applied.
		For example, a security film advertisement likely would be found to be deceptive if the superiority claim were based on a slight difference in test results that did not translate into an effective increase in protection to the consumer or the consumer's property.
	www.iwfa.com /iwfa/Membership/advertising_policy.html (1044 words)

	Earthquake Trivia and More! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For those who actually saw "Earthquake" on the big screen, the most jarring part for some (literally), was the infamous "Sensurround." Often sharing the same sentence with "Smell-O-Vision", "3-D", and "The Tingler", "Sensurround" was perhaps the least outlandish of all "audience participation" gimmicks, and undoubtedly the loudest.
		Each speaker was driven by a 1000-watt amplifier, which was controlled by a special optical control track in the film, in addition to the normal 4-track magnetic soundtrack for voices and music (which, strangely, was in mono, and not stereo).
		Of course, none of these "ideas" made it to the final film, but the audience was treated to an often "stomach-churning" slide that warned about the physical effects of the Sensurround experience right before the film started.
	members.aol.com /earthquakemovie/trivia.html (1531 words)

	1906 Earthquake Damage Motion Pictures - Library of Congress
		"Views of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Ruins" This film is a compilation of views and pans among the ruins of San Francisco after the earthquake and fire and dates from Wednesday, May 9, 1906.
		"Panorama of the Ruined City" This film is a compilation of panoramas filmed in the ruins of downtown San Francisco and outlying refugee camps following the 1906 earthquake and fire.
		"1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Damage" For the surviving refugees, the first few weeks were hard; as aid poured in from around the country, thousands slept in tents in city parks, and all citizens were asked to do their cooking in the street.
	www.sfmuseum.org /loc/movie.html (448 words)

	International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology - Public Education
		In continuation of this poem some scientific explanations related to the earthquake and again safety points in a simple language and in the form of a conversation between an infant and his teacher have been presented.
		Mentioned book is specialized for teachers and it includes the complementary subjects about earthquake and scientific subjects related to it such as the effect of earthquake on the earth and buildings and the source of earthquake and world’s seismic regions.
		According to this plan the lessons related to safety against various incidents specially the earthquake in different books of elementary, guidance and high school grades, and now the preparing of the texts of these lessons is in process of execution.
	www.iiees.ac.ir /English/Publicedu/eng_pubedu_publications.html (1752 words)

	The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, 100 Years Later
		Simulations of ground shaking from the 1906 earthquake, based on 3D geologic and seismic velocity models developed by the USGS in collaboration with LLNL, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University.
		A major international earthquake conference commemorating the 1906 earthquake, focusing on a century of progress in earthquake science and engineering, and the likely impact of future earthquakes in the Bay Area.
		Scientific overview of the M 7.9 earthquake that occurred on the San Andreas fault on April 18, 1906.
	earthquake.usgs.gov /regional/nca/1906 (817 words)

	Safety and Security
		And during an earthquake, window film holds glass together under the most extreme conditions, minimizing injury to those nearby, both inside and out.
		Window film prevents glass from shattering in high-powered internal and external explosions, which would propel thousands of sharp fragments at high speeds, potentially causing additional serious injuries and fatalities.
		SafetyShield 1500 is among the first films in the world to pass the UL972 standard for Anti-Intrusion - making it the easy choice to help secure your home or business from theft and intrusion.
	www.climatepro.com /safety_and_security.htm (739 words)

	Bay Model Visitor Center
		This film was taped from a television Frontline special, with Judy Woodruff.
		It attempts to predict the worldwide effects of a major earthquake in the Bay Area in a worst-case scenario.
		Travel to quake-prone areas and study the causes and effects of earthquakes.
	www.spn.usace.army.mil /bmvc/teachers/resources/earthquakes.html (164 words)

	Earthquake is 100% Weird after Monstervision
		The film was so popular in fact that Universal Studios decided to incorporate the experience into their famous Universal Tour, minus the original cast members.
		When Earthquake was first released theatrically, it was shown in "Sensurround," a unique sound system which made theatres appear to shake during the quake sequences.
		Earthquake was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Film Editing, and Best Sound (It won the Oscar for the latter).
	www.angelfire.com /mn/nn/Earthquake.html (348 words)

	Amazon.ca: Earthquake: DVD: Mark Robson,Jr. Pedro Armendariz,Alexander Brown,Geneviève Bujold,Bob Cunningham,Gabriel ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mark Robson's direction gives the film a professional veneer but his pacing of the material is weak, especially in the second half of the film, and the film's flat, t.v.-style cinematography and studio backlot sets give it the look of a hastily-assembled t.v.
		The lackluster storytelling isn't helped by the film's star-happy approach to casting: for example, Ava Gardner plays Lorne Greene's daughter despite the fact they are only a few years apart in age.
		On the positive side, the film's earthquake sequence is handled in an impressive, fx-heavy style and the post-destruction of images of L.A. are often quite stunning thanks to excellent visual effects by Albert Whitlock.
	www.amazon.ca /Earthquake-Mark-Robson/dp/B000ETRA5U (680 words)

	BBC - Leicester - News - Earthquake in Gujarat
		BBC - Leicester - News - Earthquake in Gujarat
		Six months after the earthquake a new BBC Leicester film shows how the effects are still being felt in Leicestershire.
		India’s worst earthquake for 50 years left 20,000 people dead, 68,000 people injured and over 200,000 families homeless.
	www.bbc.co.uk /leicester/news/2001_08/10/earthquake.shtml (218 words)

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		In the early years of film, panoramas were a favored way to present the entirety of a scene to an audience.
		(These films show) the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, and the devastation resulting from the subsequent three-day fire.
		The 8.3 magnitude earthquake struck at 5:12am and was centered along the San Andreas Fault, which slices through coastal California.
	dualmoments.com /pansfromfilms/sfq1906pano/index.html (349 words)

	The Long Beach Earthquake of 1933
		If the earthquake had struck a few hours earlier, when school was in session, the loss of life would have been appalling.
		As it was, 120 people died in the quake largely from collapsed houses and small buildings or falling debris, including 5 children who died in failed gymnasia.
		Long Beach was also the first earthquake for which acceleration records were obtained from the recently developed strong-motion accelerograph but the accelerations exceeded the range of the first instrument.
	nisee.berkeley.edu /long_beach/long_beach.html (579 words)

	Earthquake (1974) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Earthquake almost realistically shows us the devastating effects of such "an event" on a large modern day city.
		Since movie studios didn't have the resources in 1974 to add expensive computerized effects, miniatures, camera trickery and a few large-scale destructions were used to simulate the quake.
		Many of the buildings we see crumbling to the ground are actual locals in Los Angeles and anyone living is this area (myself included) would still find watching this film chilling to say the least.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0071455 (456 words)

	Friends Of Film Sponsors Pacific Palisades Film Festival
		After the Bam earthquake, that love became a consuming passion to convey the true essence of Iranians, as manifested in their heroic efforts to survive and recover from this horrific calamity.
		Building on its focus on the present, brief historical interludes sprinkle the film with context from Hudson's notorious past when it was a whaling port and an internationally famous city of vice and corruption.
		A multiple award-winning film on the festival circuit, American Blackout chronicles the recurring patterns of voter disenfranchisement witnessed from 2000 to 2004.
	www.friendsoffilm.com (5805 words)

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		Viewers of the 40-minute film will learn what scientists are doing to predict, prepare, and minimize damage for future earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tornadoes.
		The film is narrated by actor, Kevin Bacon and was produced by Graphic Films and the National Geographic; funded in part by the National Science Foundation.
		The film will cover the 1906 earthquake, what was learned from it as well as and future of earthquake research.
	1906centennial.org /meetings/Mins_072604.doc (1678 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Interview
		The film is at once a warm profile of distinguished bluesman Paul Pena's friendship with Tuvan singer Kongar-ol Ondar and an epilogue to bongo-banging physicist Richard Feynman's capricious journey to Tuva (a tiny country north of Mongolia).
		Pena, the first American to ever compete and win the annual throat-singing contest in the Kyzyl, the Tuvan capital, eventually earned the nickname "Earthquake." Fourteen film festival awards and an Oscar nomination later, the movie is still flooring audiences and gaining tremendous word of mouth.
		I'd be walking by with some film buddies, who'd be saying "Someday, that's going to be me," and all I'd think was, "Hey, man, let's go surfing." [laughs] We began to make films in elementary school, thinking it was just a fun thing to do.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/interview.asp?ctr=766533 (1183 words)

	Earthquake Trivia and More!
		These pages are for informational purposes only for fans of the film, with no intent to infringe on the rights of the trademark holders.
		All excerpts from the script of the film "Earthquake" are copyright © 1974 by Universal Studios, and are cited with no intent to infringe on the rights of the trademark holders.
		The sequences from the television version of "Earthquake" were not endorsed by the producers, director, or writers of the theatrical version of "Earthquake." The television version of "Earthquake" is not presently available on video, nor is it available from "EarthquakeMovie.com" for sale or loan.
	members.aol.com /earthquakemovie2/disclaimer.html (357 words)

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