Witness to Disaster

In April 2011, 360 tornadoes ravage the southern United States in four days, killing 348 people.

A mine collapses in Chile, trapping 33 miners almost half a mile underground.

Montecito is hit by a natural disaster that leaves its residents fighting for their lives; overnight, the Californian beach town is swamped by a series of 30-feet high, boulder-filled debris flows that destroy homes and leave streets swimming in mud.

The story of the largest wildfire in Portugal's history and how it devastated a rural community; as firefighters tried to control the blaze, fierce winds combined with the fire to make it unstoppable; fleeing locals are caught in the inferno.

Nepal is hit by a 6.7 mega-earthquake that kills thousands; across the country, survivors are hit by terrifying avalanches that destroy everything in their path; presenting stories of survival, from the Kathmandu Valley to Mount Everest.

On Oct. 1, 2015, the cargo ship El Faro is on a regular run to Puerto Rico when it disappears in a Category 4 storm called Hurricane Joaquin; it is determined that the El Faro sank off the coast of the Bahamas with 33 crew members.