Fault Lines: Understanding the Power of Earthquakes

Fault Lines: Understanding the Power of Earthquakes — page 9
1 A Planet in Motion Johanna's story during my years at university I discovered that I liked getting other people excited about science and finding easy and interesting ways to explain the science of the world we live in After university university I found my ideal job working behind the scenes at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation cbc as a meteorologist helping to forecast Canada’s weather Eventually I got to come in early in the morning to try presenting forecasts live on tv A few months later there was news of an earthquake earthquake in Los Angeles It happened during the day and we were getting a lot of pictures of the shaking and how scared people were The magnitude 5 5 earthquake struck only 45 kilometers 28 miles east of downtown downtown Los Angeles and damaged buildings in the area During the los angeles earthquake i moved from the green screen where i presented the weather to the anchor desk where we discussed what i knew about the breaking news event kelly DoHerty 10