Great Quake Transformed Our Understanding of the Planet

Great Quake Transformed Our Understanding of the Planet

Constant Wonder - Season 2022, Episode 1284 , Segment 1

Great Quake

Episode: Great Quake

  • Mar 22, 2022 10:00 am
  • 36:02 mins

Accidental geologist George Plafker was asked to survey Alaska after the world’s second-strongest earthquake hit in 1964. He made a discovery that transformed our understanding of the planet. But, at the time, prominent seismologists publicly opposed him. Guest: Henry Fountain, long-time science writer at "The New York Times" and author of "The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed our Understanding of the Planet"