Mega Disasters
Date de parution : 23 mai 2006
| Saison 1 - épisode 1 | West Coast Tsunami The United States faces a potential tsunami threat that mirrors the catastrophic Indonesia tsunami of 2004. Just west of the Oregon coast lies the... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Tornado Alley Twister A tornado scenario striking Dallas, Texas is examined. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 3 | New York City Hurricane New York City suffers a Hurricane Katrina-like disaster. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 4 | American Volcano Mount Rainier is a ticking time bomb that could dwarf the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, sending massive lahars and mudslides toward the... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 5 | Asteroid Apocalypse The possibility of a cosmic impact on the planet Earth is examined. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Yellowstone Eruption Yellowstone National Park lies on top of a magma chamber that is 35-miles wide, waiting to erupt. (For further information, see Yellowstone Caldera.) | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 7 | Windy City Tornado The episode creates a scenario in which Chicago is menaced by three fictional tornadoes. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 8 | East Coast Tsunami Cumbre Vieja, a volcano on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, off the northwestern coast of Africa, may potentially collapse in the future.... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 9 | Mega Blast The 1917 Halifax Explosion that killed 2000 people in Halifax could happen again if everything went exactly the wrong way in Boston. | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 10 | California's Katrina What if a super storm causes a flood in Sacramento, California? | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 11 | San Francisco Earthquake This special-edition episode examines what happened in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and its effect on San Francisco and looks at the... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 12 | British Superflood Could the island nation of Great Britain have once been connected to Europe by land? Listen to a new theory and evidence which suggests that the... | |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 1 | Comet Catastrophe A comet is imagined to strike the Earth and cause major devastation. |
| Saison 2 - épisode 2 | Gamma Ray Burst Every few seconds, a supernova emits jets of deadly gamma rays somewhere in the galaxy. If one of these gamma ray bursts should happen sufficiently... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 3 | Hawaii Apocalypse The shield volcanoes that make the Hawaiian Islands will erupt again and cause major destruction by earthquakes and massive lava flows. | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 4 | Methane Explosion Methane gas precipitates out of the Earth's crust but is easily diluted in the air and in the oceans. Yet, according to one scientist, certain... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 5 | Glacier Meltdown As temperatures rise, a global meltdown has begun. From the Andes to the Himalayas to the Alps, glaciers are vanishing. In Antarctica and Greenland,... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 6 | Alien Infection Could an alien infection cause an epidemic on earth? Some experts believe that spacecraft returning from Mars could bring back a harmful sample or... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 7 | New York Earthquake An earthquake in New York City may seem like the plot of a bad movie, but a magnitude 5 quake occurred in 1884 and could happen again. Two faults... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 8 | Mega Drought Trends indicate that a major drought event is looming in the not-too-distant future. In as few as three decades we could experience conditions that... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 9 | Super Swarms The locust is one of the most destructive and dreaded life forms on Earth. American pioneers faced the largest swarm of locusts ever recorded. The... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 10 | Oil Apocalypse The oil that our world runs on won't last forever. The gap between supply and demand is ever increasing. Will alternative energy save us or is it... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 11 | L.A.'s Killer Quake It has been a century since the infamous 1906 San Francisco earthquake and Californians live with the knowledge that it's only a matter of time... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 12 | The Next Pompeii? In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii and killed 5,000 people. The volcano is quiet at the moment, but the only consistency in Vesuvius' eruptive... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 1 | Hypercane Around 65 million years ago, a massive asteroid crashed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Nearly 75% of all life on earth vanished. But could a... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 2 | Noah's Great Flood About 8,000 years ago, rain squalls had global oceans surging. The oceans rose above all of the earth. When the flood was over the Mediterranean Sea... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 3 | Mega Tsunami In 6,000 BC, 8,000 years before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, a paleotsunami whose waves reach taller than the Statue of Liberty allegedly was... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 4 | Dam Break Modern dams are marvels of engineering but after decades of neglect the U.S. infrastructure is in crisis and by 2020, 85% of U.S. dams may be near... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 5 | Glow Train The U.S. Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission plan to transport 77,000 tons of nuclear waste to a permanent storage facility... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 6 | Atlantis Apocalypse About 3,000 years ago, a [[volcano]] erupted on the Agean island [[Thira]]. Some [[archeologists]] and scientists theorize that this is what wiped... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 7 | Comet Storm 13,000 years ago, a large comet exploded over eastern Canada unleashing a mass of burning fragments that ignited a mega storm of fire spreading for... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 8 | Prehistoric English Superflood Could the island nation of Great Britain have once been connected to Europe by land? Listen to a new theory and evidence which suggests that the... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 9 | Airborne Attack Anthrax is the most feared of all the biological weapons--spores entering the body through the lungs are lethal. In 2001, a simple letter, sent... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 10 | Deadly Jet Collision Since commercial aviation truly began in the 1930s, the romance of air travel has been marred by the tragedy of crashes. Unless significant changes... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 11 | Toxic Cloud Chemistry has changed our way of life. From the gasoline in our cars, to the quality of water we drink, to the furniture we sit on. But with modern... |
