Mega Disasters

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Hypercane
Episode overview
06, 2008
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 single asteroid have been the lone killer? .. show full overview
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Noah's Great Flood
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13, 2008
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 had claimed a landmass twice the size .. show full overview
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Mega Tsunami
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20, 2008
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 generated by a landslide from Mount Etna .. show full overview
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Volcanic Winter
Episode overview
27, 2008
The largest volcanic eruption of the past two million years occurred on the Indonesian island of Sumatra some 75,000 years ago. The impact from the supervolcano Mount Toba decimated the .. show full overview
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Dam Break
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03, 2008
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 their breaking point. When the South .. show full overview
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Glow Train
Episode overview
11, 2008
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 950 feet below Nevada's Yucca Mountain. .. show full overview
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Atlantis Apocalypse
Episode overview
17, 2008
About 3,000 years ago, a [[volcano]] erupted on the Agean island [[Thira]]. Some [[archeologists]] and scientists theorize that this is what wiped out the [[Minoan civilization]]. Near .. show full overview
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Comet Storm
Episode overview
24, 2008
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 thousands of miles. Nearly every .. show full overview
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British Superflood
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01, 2008
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 English Channel was created by one of the .. show full overview
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Airborne Attack
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08, 2008
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 through the US mail, paralyzed a nation, .. show full overview
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Deadly Jet Collision
Episode overview
15, 2008
Since commercial aviation truly began in the 1930s, the romance of air travel has been marred by the tragedy of crashes. Unless significant changes continue to be made in airport .. show full overview
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Toxic Cloud
Episode overview
22, 2008
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 industry come hazards and risk, .. show full overview