PickVidsBest Geology & earth science Videos
The 31 Geology & earth science videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 0 introductory, 1 intermediate, 30 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Tom Scott, PowerfulJRE, Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell.
Discovery Channel - Large Asteroid Impact Simulation
A Discovery Channel computer simulation of a large asteroid impact on Earth, showing the scale of the devastation.
Microburst Event
Amateur footage from 2014 of small airplanes being lifted and blown around during a microburst.
Methane Hydrates - Extended Interview Extracts With Natalia Shakhova
Excerpts from Nick Breeze's 2012 interview with researcher Natalia Shakhova about methane release from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf.
2011-3-11 (Home Video) Japan Earthquake Live, With Early Warning. Complete Raw
Home video of the 11 March 2011 Japan earthquake, filmed as an early warning system detected the P wave and gave seconds of notice before the shaking began.
Weather: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on the tension between public and private weather forecasting, including NOAA data and AccuWeather's lobbying against free public weather data.
Spinning Sphere of Molten Sodium
Veritasium shows an experiment from Prof.
Your Home Can Survive a Wildfire
NFPA video in which wildfire researcher Jack Cohen explains that embers (firebrands), not the flame front, are the main cause of homes igniting in wildfires.