• Their 300-mph winds can reduce entire buildings to rubble and blow cars into the sky like leaves. When and where they’ll strike remains a mystery, but every year they cost hundreds of human lives and billions of dollars worth of damage.TORNADO ALLEY ventures into the eye of the storm to examine nature’s most destructive force: tornadoes. Learn about the twisters that literally scarred Amer

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Their 300 mile-per-hour winds can reduce a building to kindling, and launch cars into the sky like leaves. When and where they will strike remains a mystery, and every year they cause billions of dollars of damage. Venture into the eye of the storm to examine nature s most destructive force. Learn about the twisters that literally scarred America, from the Natchez tornado of 1840 to the Plainfield disaster of 1990. Interviews with survivors, period accounts, and ast… More >>

Mega Disasters: Tornado Alley

• Hurricanes, earthquakes, blizzard frightening, yet all too familiar natural disasters. But what about a tsunami hitting the east coast of the United States?EAST COAST TSUNAMI examines the possibility of such a catastrophe, an event that could be provoked by a volcanic eruption off the coast of Africa. Experts investigate previous occurrences including the giant tsunami recorded in New Guinea in 18

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Hurricanes. Earthquakes. Floods. Blizzards. Frightening but all too familiar natural disasters. But what about a tsunami wave hitting the east coast of the United States? In this hour, we look at such an event that could be caused by a massive island landslide triggered by a volcano off the coast of Africa. We explore the awesome tsunami recorded by German colonists in New Guinea triggered by a volcanic explosion on Ritter Island in 1888. Leaping forward, we hear fr… More >>

Mega Disasters: East Coast Tsunami

• Could a massive earthquake strike America’s heartland? If history repeats itself, the answer is yes.Pioneers of New Madrid, Missouri, were thrown from their beds in the early hours of December 16, 1811, by an estimated eight-point earthquake. Multiple shocks were experienced over the next three months, the largest of which caused the Mississippi to flow backwards. We know now that a system of

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Could a killer earthquake strike America’s heartland? If history proves true, the answer is yes. The 1811-1812 New Madrid Earthquakes (centered in southeast Missouri) rank as some of North America’s most catastrophic natural disasters. Stretching more than 160 miles, a system of earthquake faults lurks beneath the Mississippi River basin, loaded and ready to erupt. And it’s happened before. Pioneer residents of New Madrid, Missouri were thrown from their beds in the… More >>

Mega Disasters: Earthquake in the Heartland