Earthquakes - April 18

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Today is Adult Autism Day, Animal Crackers Birthday, Amateur Radio Day, Juggler's Day, Newspaper Columnists Day, Velociraptor Awareness Day, Pinata Day, and Support Teen Literature Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Earthquakes
Watch

ON THIS DATE

• 1775 - Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements
• 1906 - An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California, killing more than 3,000.
• 1983 - A suicide bomber kills 63 people, including 17 Americans, at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1857  Lawyer Clarence Darrow
• 1924 - Singer-songwriter and guitarist Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
• 1953 - Actor Rick Moranis
• 1963 - Talk show host Conan O'Brien
• 1971 - Scottish actor David Tennant

SONGS OF THE DAY 

I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King - LISTEN
Honky-Tonk  - Clarence Gatemouth Brown - LISTEN
Animal Crackers - Shirley Temple - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Paul Revere's Ride

THEME: EARTHQUAKES

• Grades K-4 - Ready Jet Go!  - Learning About Earthquakes (2:14) - VIEW
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragonflyTV - Earthquakes (Available in Spanish) (7:16) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 4-12 - USGS - Latest Earthquakes - TRACK
• Grades 4-6 - PBS LearningMedia - DragnflyTV - Scientist Profile: Earthquake Scientist (Available in Spanish) (1:40) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Forecasting Earthquakes (3:39) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Predicting Earthquakes (2:56) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Explaining Earthquakes (4:26) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Megathrust Earthquakes (10;49) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: San Francisco (3:28) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: Los Angeles (5:13) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: The Prehistoric Records (3:19) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: The Seismograph (3:39) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Nova - Earthquakes: When Plates Collide (Available in Spanish) (3:02) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Quest - Predicting Earthquakes (4;20) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Gtgrade 9-12 - USGS - The 1886 Charleston, South Carolina, Earthquake: A 1986 Perspective - READ

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE - Plymouth High Meets Nashua South
Thursday, 4/18 from 7-7:30 pm NHPBS
It's the third game of the GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE quarterfinals and two GSC powerhouse schools go head-to-head. 2019, 2013, and 1996 GSC champion Plymouth High faces 2017 and 2016 GSC champion Nashua High South. GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE Streaming Video

THE MERRIMACK RIVER AT RISK
Thursday, 4/18 from 10-11 pm NHPBS
The Merrimack River at Risk looks at one of the country's most threatened watersheds and the towns and cities that have relied on it throughout history. The film spotlights what's at stake if the surrounding communities don't continue to protect the river and its forests. THE MERRIMACK RIVER AT RISK Streaming Video

NH EXPLORE- 11.2 Comcast (11/801) More Options

EARTH'S NATURAL WONDERS - Living Wonders
Thursday, 4/18 from 2-3 pm NH EXPLORE
Witness wonders created by the force that makes our planet unique - life. In the Amazon, boys face fierce animals in a rite of passage and a Bangladeshi father and son brave killer bees and man-eating tigers to find honey. EARTH'S NATURAL WONDERS Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

WE'RE ALL PLASTIC PEOPLE NOW
Thursday, 4/18 from 7-8 pm NH WORLD
It's in the air. It's in the water. It's buried in our soil and hidden inside the food we eat. Celebrated in the 1950s for ringing in the era of throw-away ease and freedom, plastic is now everywhere - even inside our bodies. WE'RE ALL PLASTIC PEOPLE NOW  Streaming Video

AMERICA REFRAMED - Hundreds of Thousands
Thursday, 4/18 from 8-9 pm NH WORLD
A family reeling from the unjust incarceration of an ailing mentally ill loved one, calls on their faith and the strength of community to right a systemic wrong. Music, love, and creativity are used to permeate the isolation of a solitary confinement cell and a public performance on prison grounds is used to challenge the state to do better. AMERICA REFRAMED Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339