
Inside Planet Earth
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- 2009
- 120 min
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For over 4.5 billion years,
the Earth has been blasted,
burned, ripped, and scoured.
These phenomenal events
have sculpted our planet
through a series
of devastating cataclysms.
Our ancestors thought volcanoes
were the doorways to hell.
We think we know better.
But we still live in a world
driven by natural forces
which we cannot control
and which are indifferent
to our needs.
We live on a restless planet.
We are only just beginning
to understand the awesome power
that can raise mountains,
form the continents,
open and close the seas.
The fragile truce
between man and the Earth
We are learning more about
the forces that drive our Earth
and how to live with them.
But it may be too late.
79 A.D.
Pompeii, Italy.
was overwhelmed
by pyroclastic fires
from Mount Vesuvius,
a volcano that had slept
through recorded history
until it suddenly exploded.
20,000 people lived in Pompeii.
Very few escaped
the volcanic shroud.
2,000 years later,
the people of Montserrat,
faced the same threat.
In June 1995,
the volcano of Soufrire
burst into malignant life.
It had been dormant
for 400 years.
19 people have died, and half
the island is uninhabitable.
Where once there was
a green forest
is total devastation--
an ash desert.
Scientists from
all over the world
are trying to forestall
an even greater disaster.
What we're looking at here is
And basically what it is
is this big scooped valley.
And part of this valley is
what we call English's Crater.
And that's
that big amphitheater.
Sitting within the amphitheater
from below, and it comes out.
It's exceptionally viscous.
And it just builds up
and up and up,
forming this big dome structure.
It's exceptionally hot.
Very unstable.
And these blocks
that are overhanging
generates the rock avalanches
and then the pyroclastic flows.
Mark Davies can't just watch
from the safety
of the helicopter.
He must get as close as he can
to the flow.
It's incredibly dangerous.
At any moment,
and without warning,
the volcano might erupt again,
and he'd have
no chance of escaping.
We're quite close
to the dome here.
You can feel the heat
coming off it.
So it's not really a place
we want to hang around.
6cm in 3 days.
So we'll have to keep
an eye on them.
A pyroclastic flow
is essentially like
a snow avalanche,
the only difference being
that it's around
about 800 degrees C.
It contains big, huge blocks
within it,
sometimes the size of houses.
It contains
lots of poisonous gases.
And all of that will travel
of 80 meters per second
in some cases,
sometimes a heck
of a lot faster.
So you can't outrun it.
You can't outdrive it.
And in some cases,
the only thing
that can get you out fast enough
is a helicopter.
Essentially, if you get caught
in a pyroclastic flow,
you really don't know
whether you'll get crushed,
whether you'll suffocate,
whether you'll
burn to death first.
And, frankly, I wouldn't want
to know, myself.
This is how Montserrat used to be
before the catastrophe--
an 8-mile paradise with
green hills and tiny farms
that had crept close
to the mountain.
The towns were full of memories
of the colonial past.
Now all that is gone.
Sometimes ash falls like hail
for a day at a time.
The heat can be felt
a mile away.
fills the air.
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