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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.
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🌍 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.