MegaQuake: The Hour That Shook Japan

2011 · 45 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 75 VOTES · DIR. Christina Bavetta, Marc Tiley

Overview

Experience Japan's earthquake and resulting tsunami through exclusive new footage and first person accounts from Sendai and Tokyo. Understand the mega-physics that rocked the Earth on its axis. Explore this most recent Ring of Fire cataclysm in relation to other recent disasters, as scientists pose the question - is the Pacific Northwest United States next in line?

Dialogue Timeline — 566 lines

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00:00:04 Japan suffers a huge earthquake.
00:01:58 35 million people are going about their daily lives.
00:03:42 Other scientists record underwater sound
00:05:46 the ground offers the only source of refuge.
00:07:58 My office is in the base isolation building.
00:09:36 that it tilts the world 10 inches on its axis
00:11:35 ...Causing a surge
00:13:19 before the big waves start to hit.
00:14:34 But as the sea becomes shallower
00:17:08 If it was close, it'll be here in moments.
00:18:56 accelerating the speed of the flow.
00:21:31 over 25 feet high.
00:23:15 Air-traffic controller Yoshi Kibune
00:25:21 But these generators must stay dry.
00:26:58 people are fighting for their lives.
00:28:29 But Japan's nightmare is about to get even worse.
00:30:25 You had this strange kind of fear.
00:32:02 ...It's an ominous warning of the seismic threat
00:33:33 the whole region is seismically active.
00:35:06 If it reaches breaking point...
00:36:23 Nowhere is this problem greater than in Tokyo...
00:37:42 And one of the big concerns we have is
00:39:09 So, like, for the past, what, week and a half
00:40:46 I have experienced many things in my life

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed566
Dialogue density12.6 lines / min
First line00:00:04
Final line00:40:46

Production Record

DirectorChristina Bavetta, Marc Tiley
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes75