Anatomy of Disaster

Journey into fires! Learn why they happen, meet survivors and celebrate those who battle the flames.

Learn about weather's most violent special effects and the inner workings of supercell storm phenomena.

Explore devastating seismic events and the tectonic forces that cause them.

This episode looks at the forces unleashed when the valve on the Earth's pressure cooker blows.

This episode explores why urban fires happen, how they kill and who stands in their way.

Towering many miles high and covering thousands of square miles, a hurricane brings death and destruction.

A cloudburst, a wall of muddy water and nearly everything is swept away. This is the power of a flash flood.