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Speakers:
Prof Bill McGuire, Director, Benfield Grieg Hazard Research Centre
Edmund Booth, consultant engineer, earthquake resistant design and construction
Dr Benny Peiser, social anthropologist, Liverpool John Moores University
Global Geophysical Events, including tsunamis, earthquakes, super-volcanoes and asteroid impacts, are real possibilities and could catastrophically affect our planet. Experts explain what we are doing to monitor and evaluate the risks posed by these events and whether there is anything we can do to prevent them.