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Volatile Earth

Project Summary

Volatile Earth Poster
Genre
Documentary
Featured Content
Geology, History, Nature, Volcanoes
Islands
Java, Lombok
Regions
Central Java, West Nusa Tenggara
Narrator

Mark Bazeley

Producers

Benjamin Ternyck

Oliver Twinch

Dan Chambers

Director

Oliver Twinch

Camera Operators

Robin Gobert

Will Fewkes

Jean-Pierre Rivalain

Jay Dacey

Paul Williams

Nedjna Berda

Other Crew

Jackie Chivers

Matthias Colas

Ariyano (Yano) Bonny Alberto

Sarah Sapper

Sarah Janalli

Volatile Earth Poster

FORMAT

TV Series

RELEASED

2017

EPISODE

S1E1

TITLE

Killer Volcanoes

Overview

Scientists who are experts in natural disasters identify the most extreme catastrophes to have hit the Earth and piece together exactly what happened from the evidence left in their wake.

In This Episode

Mass graves in London and a sulfur spike in ice sheet cores had long pointed to a mystery volcanic eruption leading to famine in Europe in the 13th century. Only in 2013 did French and Indonesian scientists link Lombok ash and pumice deposits and ancient historical texts to pinpoint a mega-eruption near present-day Mount Rinjani. What is now Indonesia's second tallest volcano (3,726m) once stood in the shadow of Mount Samalas, some 500m higher. Evidence now points to a 1257 blast that was one of the largest in historical times, collapsing Mount Samalas and burying a Lombok kingdom in a "Pompei of the East" that remains to be discovered.

Jungle Run Production Services

Yano of Team Jungle escorted crew and vulcanologist contributors to Indonesia's most active volcano (Mount Merapi), on a camping expedition into the summit caldera of Indonesia's second-highest volcano (Mount Rinjani), and into treasured archives that recount one of the most devastating volcanic eruptions in the last 7,000 years.

Recommended

Video

Gallery

Locations

Lombok

West Nusa Tenggara

Museum Negeri Nusa Tenggara Barat

Java

Central Java

Mount Merapi

Lombok

West Nusa Tenggara

Mount Rinjani

Production Companies

SBS
WGBH
Kwanza
Blink Films
MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Jungle Run Productions

Distributors

More4
All4
Channel 4 Television
PBS