Desperate Hours

A close up view of the most destructive recent volcanic eruptions around the world.

When the Earth really moves, it means disaster on an epic scale. Desperate Hours looks at the destructive force of earthquakes and looks at the 2015 Kathmandu earthquake in Nepal, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China where an estimated 10,000 children were trapped in collapsed school buildings, a 1960 Puerto Mont earthquake in Chile, the 2010 Port-au-Princ earthquake in Haiti, and the 2005 Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan.

Explores a range of disastrous epidemics and pandemics that have taken place around the world. Includes a look at the outbreak of Ebola in Sudan, SARS in China, and influenza in 1918.

Explores a range of devastating floods in Rio De Janeiro in Brazil, Louisiana in the United States, Hamburg in Germany, Uttarakhand in India, and across Southeast Asia during the Boxing Day tsunami.

Explores a range of geological disasters. Includes a look at avalanches in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Peru, and France as well as blizzards in the United States, Israel, and the United Kingdom.

Explores a range of nuclear disasters and industrial accidents from across the globe. Includes a look at the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Bhopal disaster in India.