-
-
-
Mega Disasters : Season 1
-
Air date: 09 May '06 - 14 episodesMega Disasters is an American documentary television series that originally aired from May 23, 2006 to July 2008 on The History Channel. Produced by Creative Differences, the program explores potential catastrophic threats to individual cities, countries, and the entire globe. The two "mega-disasters" of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 inspired the series and provided a reference point for many of the episodes. Excepting only two shows devoted to man-made disasters, the threats explored can be divided into three general categories: meteorological, geological, and cosmic hazards.
-
.
- Next >
-
-
List of Episodes (14)
-
Mega Disasters (2006)
-
1. West Coast Tsunami
09 May '06The 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.
-
Mega Disasters (2006)
-
2. Tornado Alley Twister
16 May '06A tornado scenario striking Dallas, Texas is examined.
-
Mega Disasters (2006)
-
3. New York City Hurricane
06 Jun '06New York City suffers a Hurricane Katrina-like disaster.
-
Mega Disasters (2006)
-
4. American Volcano
30 May '06Mount 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.
-
Mega Disasters (2006)
-
5. Asteroid Apocalypse
06 Jun '06The possibility of a cosmic impact on the planet Earth is examined.
-
Mega Disasters (2006)
-
6. Earthquake in the Heartland
13 Jun '06The New Madrid Fault could reawaken at any time and destroy St. Louis, Missouri and Memphis, Tennessee, like the New Madrid Earthquake of 1811-12.
-
Mega Disasters (2006)
-
7. Yellowstone Eruption
27 Jun '06Yellowstone National Park lies on top of a magma chamber that is 35-miles wide, waiting to erupt. (For further information, see Yellowstone Caldera.)
-
Mega Disasters (2006)
-
8. Windy City Tornado
11 Jul '06The episode creates a scenario in which Chicago is menaced by three fictional tornadoes.
-
Mega Disasters (2006)
-
9. East Coast Tsunami
18 Jul '06Cumbre 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.
-
Mega Disasters (2006)
-
10. San Francisco Earthquake
25 Jul '06The 1917 Halifax Explosion that killed 2000 people in Halifax could happen again if everything went exactly the wrong way in Boston.
-
Mega Disasters (2006)
-
11. Mega Blast
01 Aug '06Ice ages can come and go under an abrupt climate change scenario.
-
Mega Disasters (2006)
-
12. Mega Freeze
15 Aug '06What if a super storm causes a flood in Sacramento, California?
-
Mega Disasters (2006)
-
13. California's Katrina
19 Sep '06This 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.
-
Mega Disasters (2006)
-
14. British Superflood
-
