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British TV series or program
Seismic Seconds
Genre
Documentary Disaster
Country of origin
United Kingdom United States
Original language
English
No. of seasons
1
No. of episodes
6
Production
Running time
22 minutes
Production company
National Geographic Society
Original release
Network
National Geographic Channel
Release
Late 1990s (Late 1990s)
Related
Seconds from Disaster
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Seismic Seconds is a documentary television series that aired in the late 1990s on the National Geographic Channel. The program analysed the causes of six incidents, five involving the loss of human life. The better-known sequel to Seismic Seconds, Seconds From Disaster, was spun off from the series.
In the British version, the narrator says in the voiceover:
Disasters don't just happen. They're the result of a sequence of events, locked together in time. The science behind what went wrong is hidden in those seismic seconds.
The beginning of this voiceover:
Disasters don't just happen. They're the result of a sequence of events
was later used and modified for the series Seconds From Disaster:
Disasters don't just happen. They're the result of a critical chain of events.
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