Mega Disasters - Wikipedia
- ️Tue May 23 2006
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| Mega Disasters | |
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| Genre | Documentary Disaster History Science |
| Narrated by | J.V. Martin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 38 |
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| Executive producer | Erik Nelson |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company | Creative Differences Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | History Channel |
| Release | May 23, 2006 – July 22, 2008 |
Mega Disasters is an American documentary television series that originally aired from May 23, 2006, to July 2008 on History Channel. Produced by Creative Differences, the program explores potential catastrophic threats to individual cities, countries, and the entire globe.
The two "mega-disasters" of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 inspired the series and provided a reference point for many of the episodes.[1] Excepting only two shows devoted to man-made disasters, the threats explored can be divided into three general categories: meteorological, geological, and cosmic hazards.
The Series mostly airs on Viceland.
Each episode of the series generally follows this pattern:
- An introduction teasing the catastrophic outcome of the threat, along with a flashback of a past disaster of such kind to affect the area.
- A background on the science and scientists warning about the threat.
- A presentation of other similar disasters.
- A recap of the evidence.
- A hypothetical scenario using 3D computer animation to visually depict the details of a potential disaster.
- It Could Happen Tomorrow, a similar television series on The Weather Channel
- Perfect Disaster, another worst-case scenario series on the Discovery Channel
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- ^ [1] Archived March 4, 2009, at the Wayback Machine