Our next Virtual Event is scheduled for tomorrow august 28 and you can learn more about her upcoming Virtual Event on her website as well as by following up on crowd cast. Let me introduce our speakers for tonight. Susan susan hough a seismologist at the u. S. Geological survey. She has served as an editor and contributor for many generals. She was formally usurped of the board of directors as well as the Southern California earth quake center. She is the author of five books. Joining her tonight as henry found. He is a writer that covers climate change. He wrote about Research Findings from across the world in science. He is the author of the great quake. With that said im going to turn the screen over to our speakers. Enjoy the talk. Its great to be here. I wanted to take this. I live not far from romans. I live in a Virtual World right now. Its long been my favorite bookstore and one of my favorite reporters the title of my book just came to me one day. And i eventually told henry t
2nd world war later french architect. Designed housing for around 60000 people a masterpiece of urban planning. Drew inspiration from the heritage site for his cardboard installation. You need to do the us fascinating work and a bit like being an architect. I have kids and as a boy i myself used to play with cardboard boxes. Where you can be anything you want to a little kid shit an airplane or whatever he said you know truth. These monumental cardboard concepts would hardly be feasible without plenty of help from the people of. The buildings are made of some 3000 rolls of tape and 23000 boxes. Fewer than bricks in the originals they take just one week of construction not much to build an entire city but it did require months of planning and precision drawings much like an architect would make. The 46 year old artists favorite piece is the tower. This is a replica inspired by St Josephs Church in. The fear now is to test the limits of the limits were going to build its about 26 meters
When gephardt mertons drove his taxi around him a half an in 1949 he had no idea that he would one day do business with the west German Intelligence Service the b. M. D. And also the cia mittens was a former member of the s. S. A daredevil paratrooper many of the government files about his postwar activities remain top secret to this day. After she was a fog of us theres no question that mertons worked at the cia especially in the sale of weapons if you do see a guy but those arms deals lead to Foreign Policy problems and thats why the files remain closed and so forth not on its off or just like much the on off for fish was. Mittens found at his taxi company and claim a half and in the late 1940 s. Some people who met him said they found him intimidating. Visually and so for me i can still picture him it was a big strong guy and he knew how to throw his weight around post stuff really get well. Met and soon establish connections with powerful government officials around the world and l
Are bracing themselves for aftershocks after the region was hit by its biggest earthquake in more than 20 years. Its the second big tremor in as many days. The epicentre of the quake was near the city of ridgecrest, north east of los angeles. Angus crawfords report contains some flashing images. Oh, my god. Fear and shock. Two quakes in two days. This one with the magnitude of 7. 1, the strongest for 20 years. Evacuate nerves stretched to the limit. Go, go, go panic is infectious. 8 21am here on the air, we are experiencing. And very public. I think we need to get under the desk. 0k, were going to go to break. Well be right back. Wow. In hollywood, tourists werent sure what to make of it. Everythings moving, and the chandelier was shaking, and the kids were saying, its an earthquake. We saw that the rest of the people in our neighbouring rooms were looking at each other. We were all kind of scared, just freaking out about it. Landslides blocked some roads. Motorists using their bare ha
Rattled nerves and windows across the north these this morning, it was the strongest quake to hit the state since america officially secured its independence from Great Britain no deaths are significant levels odamage, t delays a airportsas well as Rail St El Disru Lives and o of theost densely populate areas of theountry in a moment, well look at why smaller earthquakes on the east coast may potentially have a greater impacthan similar ones in the west. But firs polo sanl jos us from times sqre. So there was this 4. 0 magnitude after shock right fore 6 00. Iidnt even feel that one. Did you feel it in times square at least i peonally didnt feel it here in times square. Andrew it is very much Business As Usual tonight. You can hear the sirens meanwhile, though its important to also remind viewers that officials here, york have confirmed the total of 11 aftershocks, as you mentioned, the strongest and the most noticeable one. Only a couple of hours ago, over eight hours since the main qu