The Unpredictable Planet: Understanding Volcanoes and Earthquakes

不可预测的星球:了解火山和地震

The Forum

社会与文化

2016-07-25

40 分钟
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New ideas about volcanoes, earthquakes and other geological processes that both enrich and threaten us. Jack Stewart is joined by four leading Earth scientists in the city of Yokohama at the 2016 Goldschmidt Conference - volcanologists Tamsin Mather and Michihiko Nakamura, plate tectonics expert Carl Spandler and seismologist and Nature magazine editor John VanDecar. (Photo: Mount Fuji in Japan. Credit: Getty Images)
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  • Welcome to the Forum, a world of ideas from the BBC.

  • I'm Jack Stewart.

  • And this week we've come to Japan to look at new ideas about volcanoes,

  • earthquakes and other geological processes.

  • Things that happen deep within our Earth but occasionally make themselves violently obvious.

  • Now, there's a couple of reasons we're here.

  • Japan, of course, is a hotspot for geological activity.

  • On average, there are three earthquakes a day that are strong enough to be felt.

  • And the country has 110 active volcanoes that are being monitored,

  • which, to me, was just incredible to learn.

  • But when you think about it, Mt.

  • Fuji, the iconic symbol of Japan, is itself a volcano.