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Season 3 – Mega Disasters

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Your car got booted while you were in the laundry discovering that they lost your favorite shirt. In short, it's been a lousy day. But it could be worse, as this unsettling series proves, using state-of-the-art computer animation to revisit past disasters and then depicting how a repeat of the catastrophe would affect the modern world.
Mega Disasters — Season 3

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J.V. Martin

Narrator

Roger Tilling

Narrator

Rebecca Cameron

Writer

Ted Poole

Writer

Kevin Fitzpatrick

Executive Producer

Bill Hunt

Executive Producer

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired May 6, 2008 Hypercane Some scientists theorize that mass extinctions happened on Earth 65 million years ago due to powerful megastorms known as hypercanes, reaching 20 miles into the stratosphere. Details Episode 2 Aired May 13, 2008 Noah's Great Flood The Mediterranean Sea bursts through the Bosporus Strait 8,000 years ago, inundating a valley twice the size of Ireland in a flood of biblical proportions. Details Episode 3 Aired May 20, 2008 Mega Tsunami Scientists piece together evidence of a tsunami that may have ravaged the Mediterranean world around 6,000 B.C., sweeping away villages and killing an untold number of people. Details Episode 4 Aired May 27, 2008 Volcanic Winter The supervolcano Toba erupts on Sumatra 75,000 years ago, causing a sudden volcanic winter that shocks the climatic balance around the world. Details Episode 5 Aired Jun 3, 2008 Dam Break Scientists and engineers sound an alarm that a catastrophic dam failure might be the next mega-disaster facing America; a dam gives way near Johnstown, Pa., killing 2,200 people in 1889. Details Episode 6 Aired Jun 11, 2008 Glow Train Catastrophe Examining the potential for disaster in Las Vegas, if a railway accident befell nuclear waste being transported for permanent storage below Nevada's Yucca Mountain. Details Episode 7 Aired Jun 17, 2008 Atlantis Apocalypse Scientists speculate about a repeat of an Aegean Sea incident, as when a huge volcanic eruption on Santorini 3,500 years ago caused a tsunami that wiped out Minoan civilization on Crete and prompted the Atlantis myth. Details Episode 8 Aired Jun 24, 2008 Comet Storm Researchers study a comet explosion 13,000 years ago that ignited a firestorm across much of North America and killed nearly every living thing, including the Clovis human culture. Details Episode 9 Aired Jul 1, 2008 Prehistoric English Superflood A new theory suggests that a megastorm caused one of the largest floods in the history of the planet, creating the English Channel and turning Britain into an island separated from the continent of Europe. Details Episode 10 Aired Jul 8, 2008 Airborne Attack Analysis considers the deadly implications if airborne anthrax were unleashed over the U.S. in a biological attack. Details Episode 11 Aired Jul 15, 2008 Deadly Jet Collision A scenario demonstrates the potential for disaster from a "runway incursion" at a busy airport; 583 people are killed when two airliners collide in the Canary Islands in 1977; 34 people die when two planes collide in Los Angeles in 1991. Details Episode 12 Aired Jul 22, 2008 Toxic Cloud A toxic chemical cloud from an industrial accident could jeopardize an entire community within minutes, putting the lives of thousands of people at risk; a cargo ship carrying ammonia nitrate explodes, killing 500 people in Texas in 1947. Details
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Season Info

Executive Producer
Kevin Fitzpatrick, Bill Hunt, Vincent Kralyevich, Kristine Sabat, Jeff Weber
Screenwriter
Rebecca Cameron, Ted Poole
Network
History
Rating
TV-PG
Genre
Documentary, Special Interest
Original Language
English
Release Date
May 6, 2008