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🌋 Volcanoes

Ep 38: Volcanoes Pt 1 - Mt. Toba's Echo: Journey into Earth's Cataclysmic Past

• A prehistoric eruption so massive it may have nearly wiped out humanity.

Ep 42: Volcanoes Pt 2 - Time Capsule of Tragedy: Exploring Pompeii's Frozen History

• Mount Vesuvius destroys—and preserves—an entire Roman city in one day.

Ep 46: Volcanoes Pt 3 - The Silent Summer: Tambora's Echo in Time

• An eruption in 1815 caused global famine and the “year without a summer.”

Ep 51: Volcanoes Pt 4 - Krakatoa: Exploring the Tectonic Plates Beneath the Cataclysmic Eruption

• One of the loudest sounds in history, an eruption that reshaped the map—and the climate.

Ep 59: Volcanoes Pt 5 - Mud, Fire, and Ash: The Mt. Pelée Eruption

• In 1902, a pyroclastic flow annihilated the city of Saint-Pierre in seconds.

Ep 66 - Volcanoes Part 6 - George Vancouver, this is it!: The Eruption of Mt. St. Helens

• When the mountain blew in 1980, it was one of the most iconic eruptions of the 20th century.

Ep 71 - Volcanoes Part 7 - The End of the World - Yellowstone & Mass Extinctions

• The mother of all volcanoes—and how super-eruptions may have ended worlds before.

🌍 Other Disasters

Ep 73: Disaster in the Desert: Saga of the Salton Sea

• An accidental inland sea created by engineering mistakes. Still a toxic mess today.

Ep 74 - Get Your 'Blood's Worth': The Great Fire of London

• 1666: a bakery fire reduces London to ashes and reshapes the city.

Ep 77 - Cloudy with a Chance of Terror: Cumulonimbus

• Towering thunderclouds that can shred planes and spark terror.

Ep 78 - Ditka's Inferno: The Great Chicago Fire

• A cow, a lantern, or just bad luck—Chicago burns in 1871.

Ep 86 - Shake it like you mean it - The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

• One of the deadliest quakes in U.S. history levels the city in seconds.

Ep 89 - Fire In the Rubble: The Great San Francisco Fire

• If the quake didn’t get you, the fires afterward did.

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