Daring storm chasers risk their lives to study, document and provide inside looks at the raw power and devastation of tornadoes across the U.S.
Episode 2. Volcano
2022-10-27 · 43 min
From Iceland to Italy, experts take an in-depth look at four imposing volcanoes, each bigger, deadlier and more explosive than the last.
Episode 3. Earthquake
2022-10-27 · 50 min
Harrowing accounts of earthquakes and tsunamis in Los Angeles and Japan hone in on looming threats in the hotbeds of the earth's seismic activity.
Episode 4. Hurricane
2022-10-27 · 44 min
A closer look at the ravaging effects of Hurricane Ida in 2021 reveals how rising global temperatures are pushing storms to grow more powerful than ever.
I have always been drawn to stories and documentaries about extreme weather, just as I have enjoyed watching documentaries or reading books about mountaineering or polar exploration.
This mini-series does a credible job of mixing science, survival stories and other elements while discussing Volcanoes, tornadoes, hurricanes and earthquakes. In fact, I am more interested in tsunamis than I am earthquakes, but this show focused more on the latter so that was fine. They did focus on survival stories of a few people and it wasn’t very detailed. for example, I have lways been intrigued that before the tsunami strikes, water is temporarily suctioned away from the place bout to be slammed by it. There was no mention of this phenomenon in the description of events.
So there was plenty of scientific and anecdotal information offered concerning these types of weather events, along with descriptions of what the fire might hold