Planetarium – Earthquake

Tickets available at all Vallitix locations, Charge by phone 661-322-5200 and Vallitix.com

Adult $8 Kids $6

Courtesy of a grant from Chevron, the William M Thomas Planetarium will offer a second geology-theme show for the spring schedule, “Earthquake: Evidence of a Restless Planet” on Thursday, April 7th, from 7:30 to 8:30 PM.

The one-hour show will begin with a short tour of the evening sky using the planetarium’s Goto Chronos star projector followed by the 23-minute all-dome presentation from the California Academy of Sciences called “Earthquake: Evidence of a Restless Planet” using our Spitz SciDome projector. Narrated by Benjamin Bratt, the show begins with an all digital, recreation of the 7.9-magnitude earthquake, followed by a scientific dissection of the event—including views of the underground fault plane and the propagation of seismic energy waves based on supercomputer simulations. We then embark on a high-speed tour of the past 200 million years, witnessing the formation of the Atlantic Ocean, flying over the cradle of humanity in Africa’s Great Rift Valley, and visiting sites of historic earthquakes in India, China, and Japan—including the 9.0-magnitude Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. The show ends with a look at the modern building strategies used by scientists and engineers for a safer and better prepared future.