The Ratu River Expedition is a 25-minute film featuring the research on Nepal earthquakes by the Structural Geology group at the Earth Observatory of Singapore. The film was written and directed by Isaac Kerlow, and it shows how the scientific team uses a variety of techniques and technologies to collect data on the field for later analysis. This includes a massive truck called the EnviroVibe which vibrates the ground between 10 to 300 pulses per second, sending sound waves up to 2 kilometres deep. The sound waves reflecting off the rock layers are used to visualize the faults and underground structure.

Watch the film here:

The Ratu River Expedition - NEPALI Subtitles from EOS on Vimeo.

The film premiered at the 2016 Jaipur International Film Festival in NW India, about 1,000 km from Kathmandu. It also received a Sierra Nevada Award at the 2016 Mountain Film Festival in Mammoth, California, a Remi Award at the Houston International Film and Video Festival, in Houston, Texas, and a Nominee’s Prize at the China International Conference of Science and Education Producers, in Shenzhen. The film received over 79,000 Likes on the project’s Facebook page during the one-week online preview of the Nepali version.