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Crime Beat

Introducing: Whatever Happened To...?

Crime Beat

Curiouscast

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, News

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

You’ve heard the stories. You’ve felt for the people involved. But what happens after the cameras shut off and the reporters walk away? Just because a story disappears from the news doesn’t mean it’s gone. So whatever happened to the nuclear disaster at Fukushima? or the trapped Chilean Miners? And did anything actually come out of the Ice Bucket Challenge? Join Global News reporter, Erica Vella on this unique history podcast as she takes you inside these stories and talks to the people at the heart of each one to find out exactly what’s happened since. Listen now at https://link.chtbl.com/wht Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Nancy. Before we begin today, I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to

0:05.7

Crime Beat early and add free on Amazon Music included with Prime.

0:12.0

I want to introduce you to another great podcast you might enjoy from the Curious

0:16.5

Cast podcast network.

0:18.8

It's called Whatever Happened to.

0:21.4

On this show, Global News reporter Erica Vela takes you inside stories and events that captured the entire world's attention.

0:29.0

She revisits the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, the Trapped Chilean miners, and remember the ice bucket challenge?

0:39.2

On this history podcast, we find out what happened when the cameras turned off and the attention died down.

0:47.0

Join Erica as she talks to the people at the heart of each story and uncovers what's happened since. Here's a preview.

0:57.8

It was a Friday like any other. People were going about their business, preparing for the weekend, and then the earth rumbled like a fierce growl. Entire buildings shook. Pieces of concrete fell to the ground at times

1:17.4

narrowly missing those running for safety. This was an earthquake in a nation that was used to them.

1:26.2

But this nine magnitude earthquake,

1:29.4

it wasn't only powerful.

1:31.5

It was long and triggered a massive tsunami which unleashed 15 meter high waves that

1:38.4

washed through small fishing villages and roadways.

1:48.0

Cars, homes and debris floated by as people rushed to their rooftops

1:50.0

and watched the swirling water destroy everything in its path.

1:55.0

And in a nanosecond,

1:58.0

inside the Fukushima Daiichi power plant,

2:01.0

everything went black.

2:05.0

Nestled in the towns of Okuma and Futaba

2:08.0

is the location of one of the worst nuclear power accidents in recent history.

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