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The ground shakes, mountains explode, the sky turns black and violent - natural forces that helped create life on our green planet can also imperil it. Experience our planet's fiercest powers as the latest Omnimax film "Forces of Nature" delivers the awesome spectacle of earthquakes, volcanoes and tornadoes.


A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Izmit, Turkey in 1999. Twenty thousand buildings were destroyed and the death toll reached 25,000. The loss of life was caused in large part by sub-standard construction.


On 3 May 1999, an extraordinary series of tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma and left behind unimaginable destruction.

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From volcanic eruptions on the Caribbean island of Montserrat and trembling fault lines in Turkey, to storms ripping through the notorious "Tornado Alley" of America's Midwest, modern-day disasters from around the globe are witnessed in eye-popping enormity on the giant screen.

"Forces of Nature" captures inspiring and terrifying atmospheric and geological events, then takes audiences behind the disasters with scientists willing to risk their own lives to understand these forces and increase our odds of surviving these events.

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The home of some of the most severe storms on Earth is found in a midwestern region of the United States known as "Tornado Alley". 


For hundreds of years, a volcano called Soufriere Hills on the Caribbean island of Montserrat was dormant but it erupted in 1995. The residents were evacuated in time with only a few casualties.

Risking their own lives, volcanologists installed instruments to detect signs before an eruption.

The clerics of the Hagia Sophia in Turkey kept records of their earthquake repairs. With such a chronology of quake dates and damage combined with other data, scientists might discover a pattern that could help them forecast earthquakes.

Scientists spend months each year chasing tornadoes hoping to get a radar's eye view inside them.

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Duration : 40 minutes 

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