← Earth Shocks

Season 1

9 episodes · 2007

  1. 1Megaflood

    13 Nov 2007

    Scientists examine evidence of a 50ft tidal wave that surged across the American state of Washington around 12,000 years ago, in a bid to explain where it came from.

  2. 2Megavolcano

    20 Nov 2007

    A giant volcano that lies below the water's surface in a lake in south-east Asia, and the widespread devastation that would be wrought across the planet if it ever erupted

  3. 3The Ring of Fire

    27 Nov 2007

    Investigates the Earth's rising incidence of volcanic activity. Research indicates that in the last 1,000 years volcanic activity has increased a staggering 300 per cent!

  4. 4Hyper Hurricane

    04 Dec 2007

    Expert testimony from leading scientists combines with stunning computer imaging technology to bring to life vivid depictions of the killer hyper hurricanes that once ravaged the Earth.

  5. 5Episode 5

    11 Dec 2007

  6. 6Episode 6

    18 Dec 2007

  7. 7How the West Was Made

    25 Dec 2007

    Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Megafloods, massive tectonic eruptions of rock! Ice dams the size of whole continents, and other bizarre and powerful phenomena have created the American West.

  8. 8Death of a Star Mira

    01 Jan 2008

    For the first time in human history, scientists have found the ultimate fate of Earth written in the comet trail of a massive red giant 'shooting' star.

  9. 9Incinerator Earthfinale

    08 Jan 2008

    65 million years ago an asteroid hit the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, but no one has ever known where the asteroid came from and how it killed off nearly three quarters of all life on Earth...