More than 30,000 people are known to have been killed in the earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria last week, and the death toll is expected to increase. With the help of teams from BBC Turkish and BBC Arabic, Panorama follows survivors and rescue workers from both sides of the border, and asks if more could have been done to save lives.

这部特别纪录片追踪地震侦探寻找最终线索：地震即将来临的迹象。如果他们能破解这个代码，每年可能拯救成千上万的生命。 　　长期以来被视为地震学的圣杯，地震是少数仍无法预测的自然灾害之一，但技术的进步 – 以及现在的人工智能 – 可能让我们比以往更接近成功预测。 　　在印度，一对开创性的夫妻团队在卡奇沙漠展开了一场冒险，寻找可能提供线索的天然气。同时，在日本，科学家们正在海底下钻探数千公里，以了解更多关于南海海槽的信息，这是一个威胁日本社会未来的地震断层线。 　　在中国西安，科学家们相信他们正处在突破的边缘。通过监测地球重力的异常变化，他们确信能够预测下一次大地震的发生时间。

Tangshan, 1976. Two seven-year-old twins are buried under the rubble of the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century. The rescue team explains to their mother that freeing either child will almost certainly result in the death of the other. Forced to make the most difficult decision of her life, she finally chooses to save her son. Though left behind as dead, the little girl miraculously survives, unbeknownst to her brother and mother.

An alien visits Earth during World War III, learns English by absorbing a dictionary, and meets good and bad earthlings.

A 30-something urbanite is pulled back to his rural hometown by his high school buddies on Thanksgiving to finish The Turkey Bowl – an epic football game against their cross town rivals that was snowed out fifteen years prior.

100 years have passed since the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Although filmed records of its aftermath exist, the footage held flaws making it difficult to identify locations or times, obscuring the reality of how citizens of Tokyo faced this overwhelming disaster. To understand these details, we remastered the film and attempted to colorize it, while also making full use of audio accounts by survivors and a variety of scientific analyses by specialists. This program opens a new window into the events surrounding the disaster that had once been shrouded in mystery.

Musse is a mannerly local doctor trying to live by the rules, but the challenges from his environment threaten his ability to control situations and he becomes the person he despises.

After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaited earthquake--"The Big One"--will strike southern California. With this information, she must battle city officials to release this information to the general public. Also, she hopes that her family is out of harms way when the quake strikes. Subplots show how other families and people cope with the the tremors that strike before the impending "Big One."

Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photography.

When a massive earthquake submerges several subway cars underground, a group of misfit passengers band together to get to the surface or die trying.