A video lecture that looks at what factors impact on the amount of damage that is caused by an earthquake. These depend on the intensity of the vibrations and the methods of construction used in the buildings. [6:05]

Actual video footage of the Loma Prieta earthquake in California in 1989 as it was happening. Shows people running for their lives as buildings and the ground shake around them. (Length: 1 min. 2 sec.)

A simple and effective demonstration of what happens during liquefaction in an earthquake. [1:13]

Video footage showing liquefaction during the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2011. Includes comments from seismologists about the disaster, and a discussion of establishing new building codes to make buildings resistant not...

Animation explores how 3 buildings engineered equally on different bedrock will react to an earthquake. [1:25]

In this video [2:08] we see what might happen to a fragile work of art during an earthquake? Learn how the Getty Museum's seismic isolator technology protects inherently unstable objects.