Full Interview: Earthquake’s Buried Truth
Earthquakes can be more powerful than atomic bombs.
Luckily, Harvard geophysicist John Shaw has ideas on how to beat them. What really causes earthquakes? How can cities and buildings be engineered to survive them? John and Hakeem trace the science of shaking ground from ancient myth to cutting-edge machine learning, and reveal just how much is still left to discover deep beneath the surface.
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Guest Bio:
John Shaw is the Harry C. Dudley Professor of Structural and Economic Geology at Harvard University, where he…
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