Mega Disasters - Season 1

Mega Disasters - Season 1

Season 1

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Episodes13
Datesmai 23, 2006 - août 15, 2006
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Episodes

West Coast Tsunami
Season 1Episode 145 min

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 Cascadia subduction zone where the Juan de Fuca Plate is moving under the North American Plate. A major earthquake here could displace enough water to cause a massive wave to impact along the west coast.
mai 23, 2006
Tornado Alley Twister
Season 1Episode 245 min

Tornado Alley Twister

How a major tornado would impact Dallas is examined by studying the effect of a twister that struck Oklahoma City on May 4, 1999, killing 43 people and causing $1 billion in damage.
mai 30, 2006
New York City Hurricane
Season 1Episode 345 min

New York City Hurricane

A Category 3 hurricane hitting New York City is the scenario. Included: a history of hurricanes in the Northeast; and the origins of such storms.
juin 6, 2006
American Volcano
Season 1Episode 445 min

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 Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area.
juin 13, 2006
Asteroid Apocalypse
Season 1Episode 545 min

Asteroid Apocalypse

An asteroid hitting the Earth off the coast of Los Angeles is the scenario. Included: the theory that an asteroid strike may have been responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs.
juin 20, 2006
Earthquake in the Heartland
Season 1Episode 645 min

Earthquake in the Heartland

The New Madrid Fault could reawaken at any time and destroy St. Louis, Missouri and Memphis, Tennessee, like the New Madrid Earthquake of 1811-12.
juin 27, 2006
Yellowstone Eruption
Season 1Episode 745 min

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.)
juil. 4, 2006
Windy City Tornado
Season 1Episode 845 min

Windy City Tornado

The possibility of a tornado hitting downtown Chicago is the scenario. Included is an examination of the 1967 twister that hit the suburb of Oak Lawn.
juil. 11, 2006
East Coast Tsunami
Season 1Episode 945 min

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. If it does, a massive tsunami will be headed right for the East coast of the United States, threatening major cities like New York, Boston, Baltimore, and Miami.
juil. 18, 2006
Firestorm
Season 1Episode 1045 min

Firestorm

This special-edition episode examines what happened in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and its effect on San Francisco and looks at the destruction if it were to happen again today.
juil. 25, 2006
Mega Freeze
Season 1Episode 1145 min

Mega Freeze

Recalling the 1917 explosion of the ship Mont Blanc in Halifax Harbor, which left almost 2000 people dead and 6000 people homeless. Included: speculation about whether a similar disaster could occur in Boston Harbor.
août 1, 2006
California's Katrina
Season 1Episode 1245 min

California's Katrina

août 8, 2006
San Francisco Earthquake
Season 1Episode 1345 min

San Francisco Earthquake

août 15, 2006

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