Catastrophe is a subtitled documentary series of the National Geographic series Violent Earth.
The episodes in the Catastrophe series are as follows:
Catastrophe: Hurricane Floyd
Catastrophe: San Francisco Earthquake
Catastrophe: The Super Twisters
Catastrophe: Eruption At Pinatubo
Catastrophe: Hurricane Floyd
In September 1999, in less than 36 hours, Hurricane Floyd - a massive storm double the size of Hurricane Andrew - would ravage the entire east coast of the United States; wreaking havoc and leaving a grizzly trail of death from South Carolina to Delaware.
Eyewitness accounts and heart-stopping footage take the viewer on a non-stop ride through the heart of the storm.
Catastrophe: San Francisco Earthquake
On October 17, 1989, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake explodes across Northern California, shaking the twin cities of San Francisco and Oakland to their core.
The monster quake strikes with a force, destroying neighbourhoods, wrecking highways and catching both the civilian and scientific communities off-guard.
Across the country, Americans tuning in to watch the World Series become unsuspecting witnesses to this catastrophe. As television announcers broadcast pre-game coverage, the earthquake hits Candlestick Park.
In this monster earthquake, victims have no time to prepare and little time to react. Survival becomes a question of timing, instinct and the accident of chance.
San Francisco Earthquake propels viewers on an experiential journey into the deadly disaster, as ordinary citizens transform into victims, survivors and heroes.
Riveting, rarely-seen footage of the most intense and personal stories of the catastrophe bring to life a devastating diary of disaster.
Catastrophe: The Super Twisters
On a spring day in 1974, one hundred and forty-eight tornadoes ripped through North America in one of the deadliest outbreaks in history.
Thirteen states were pulverized in only 18 hours as the tornadoes, with funnel winds of 300 to 400 km/h, gave little warning and demolished communities from Alabama to Canada.
Before it was all over, 330 people were dead and 5,484 were injured. The scale and intensity of devastation had never before been encountered.
The Super Twisters takes viewers inside this raging storm front, and bears witness to the suffering of the many communities caught in its ferocious path.
Catastrophe: Eruption At Pinatubo
It is the greatest volcanic eruption ever filmed, ten times as powerful as Mount St. Helens and twice as catastrophic as the eruption that buried the ancient city of Pompeii.
Mount Pinatubo was a titanic time bomb that waited six hundred years to explode. On June 15, 1991, the volcano literally blew itself apart.
Witness one of the most cataclysmic natural events in recorded history.
See what happens when a molten monster breaks free of the underworld and find out how, in this spectacular natural event, fewer than 300 people lost their lives...when it could have been hundreds of thousands.