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All Episodes of Mega Disasters

Mega Disasters is an American documentary television series that originally aired from May 23, 2006 to July 2008 on The History Channel. Produced by Creative...
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Season 1

  • West Coast Tsunami
    7.4/1011 votes

    West Coast Tsunami

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/9/2006

    The 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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Tornado Alley Twister
    6.9/1013 votes

    Tornado Alley Twister

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/16/2006

    How a major tornado would impact Dallas is examined by studying the effect of a twister that struck Oklahoma City on May 4, 1999, killing 43 people and causing $1 billion in damage.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • New York City Hurricane
    6.9/1010 votes

    New York City Hurricane

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/23/2006

    A Category 3 hurricane hitting New York City is the scenario. Included: a history of hurricanes in the Northeast; and the origins of such storms.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • American Volcano
    8.5/1010 votes

    American Volcano

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/30/2006

    Mount 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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Asteroid Apocalypse
    7.4/1012 votes

    Asteroid Apocalypse

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/6/2006

    An asteroid hitting the Earth off the coast of Los Angeles is the scenario. Included: the theory that an asteroid strike may have been responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Earthquake in the Heartland
    7.8/107 votes

    Earthquake in the Heartland

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/13/2006

    The New Madrid Fault could reawaken at any time and destroy St. Louis, Missouri and Memphis, Tennessee, like the New Madrid Earthquake of 1811-12.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Yellowstone Eruption
    7.8/1014 votes

    Yellowstone Eruption

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 6/27/2006

    Yellowstone National Park lies on top of a magma chamber that is 35-miles wide, waiting to erupt. (For further information, see Yellowstone Caldera.)

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Windy City Tornado
    7.6/109 votes

    Windy City Tornado

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/11/2006

    The possibility of a tornado hitting downtown Chicago is the scenario. Included is an examination of the 1967 twister that hit the suburb of Oak Lawn.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • East Coast Tsunami
    7.8/109 votes

    East Coast Tsunami

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 7/18/2006

    Cumbre 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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • San Francisco Earthquake
    6.8/106 votes

    San Francisco Earthquake

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 7/25/2006

    This 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.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Mega Blast
    6.1/1011 votes

    Mega Blast

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/1/2006

    Recalling the 1917 explosion of the ship Mont Blanc in Halifax Harbor, which left almost 2000 people dead and 6000 people homeless. Included: speculation about whether a similar disaster could occur in Boston Harbor.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Mega Freeze
    7.1/109 votes

    Mega Freeze

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 8/15/2006

    The possible effects of extreme climate changes around the world in a short period of time are examined. Included: how drought altered the Mayan civilization.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • California's Katrina
    6.9/1014 votes

    California's Katrina

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/19/2006

    The Hurricane Katrina disaster is studied as a model to examine what might happen if Sacramento's levee system failed and a similar tragedy resulted.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown