Killer Volcanoes
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2016
Discover how volcanoes form and explore history's most devastating eruptions, including those at Indonesia's Krakatoa and the Caribbean's Mount Pelée.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2016
Discover how volcanoes form and explore history's most devastating eruptions, including those at Indonesia's Krakatoa and the Caribbean's Mount Pelée.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2016
Study the mighty tectonic forces behind some of the world's worst earthquakes, including one that all but razed San Francisco in 1906.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2016
This episode probes the power of floods -- Earth's deadliest form of natural disaster -- and reveals why certain regions are particularly at risk.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2016
Deadly avalanches strike without warning in mountains across the globe, with slides in the Alps alone claiming scores of victims every year.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2016
This episode explores the most catastrophic earthquakes the world has seen in centuries, including temblors in China, India and South America.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2016
Delve deeper into the powerful subterranean forces that cause earthquakes and survey some of the worst quakes to ever hit Japan, Turkey and China.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2016
Learn how colossal tsunami waves form and sweep devastation in from the sea, and how authorities work to develop advanced warning systems.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2016
Discover how monster cyclones form in the world's tropical seas and why Bangladesh remains especially vulnerable to these ferocious storms.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2016
This episode probes the savage nature of hurricanes and the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, which engulfed New Orleans in 2005.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2016
To protect the public, scientists and storm spotters study the fury of tornadoes as they roar across the landscape, leaving destruction in their wake.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2016
Across the globe, oppressive heat waves, prolonged droughts, bitter blizzards and other extreme weather conditions can decimate entire regions.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2016
Although part of nature's cycle, forest fires can rage out of control, as with an inferno that consumed swaths of Indonesia in the 1990s.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Oct 1, 2016
Discover some of the most devastating landslides in recorded history, including those in South America that have killed tens of thousands of people.