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# Interview: Earthquakes: Natural, Man-Made, and Everything Between with John Shaw
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/nova/specials/interview-earthquakes-natural-man-made-and-everything-between-with-john-shaw-wgy0ly/
- Published: 2026-10-21T19:00:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-22T13:00:33.000Z
- Description: Harvard geophysicist John Shaw on earthquake science, survival, and how humans trigger quakes.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: NOVA, #ZZZ_Show_8f1ff589-6222-4260-acbf-0523a6424abf, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Special_ed7bb541-9a88-481b-848c-60dbceabf6e2, #special

John Shaw is a geophysicist at Harvard University, and he joins Hakeem to discuss what causes earthquakes, how cities and buildings can be engineered to survive them, and how human activity can trigger quakes of its own.