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Can you recommend a Natural Disaster podcast?

Can you recommend a Natural Disaster podcast?

From volcanoes to fires to snow, we have MANY episodes on Natural Disasters! Ep 38: Volcanoes Pt 1 - Mt. Toba's Echo: Journey into Earth's Cataclysmic Past Ep 42: Volcanoes Pt 2 - Time Capsule of Tragedy: Exploring Pompeii's Frozen History Ep 46: Volcanoes Pt 3 - The Silent Summer: Tambora's Echo in Time Ep 51: Volcanoes Pt 4 - Krakatoa: Exploring the Tectonic Plates Beneath the Cataclysmic Eruption Ep 59: Volcanoes Pt 5 - Mud, Fire, and Ash: The Mt. Pelée Eruption Ep 66 - Volcanoes Part 6 - George Vancouver, this is it!: The Eruption of Mt. St. Helens Ep 71 - Volcanoes Part 7 - The End of the World - Yellowstone & Mass Extinctions Ep 73: Disaster in the Desert: Saga of the Salton Sea Ep 74 - Get Your 'Blood's Worth': The Great Fire of London Ep 77 - Cloudy with a Chance of Terror: Cumulonimbus Ep 78 - Ditka's Inferno: The Great Chicago Fire Ep 86 - Shake it like you mean it - The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Ep 89 - Fire In the Rubble: The Great San Francisco Fire Ep 95 - The Highest Graveyard on Earth: Mt. Everest Ep 99 - Dying in the Deep: The Blue Hole Ep 136 - Cave of Doom: John Jones & Nutty Putty Cave Ep 142 - Death Lurking in the Deep - Limnic Eruptions Ep 163: Deep Blue Something - Tom & Eileen Lonergan Ep 164: Incarcerated & Fire Fighting - California's Conservation Camps BONUS: Real Life Stories - Incarcerated Firefighting with Brett Crawford Ep 196: Table for 87? - The Donner Party

Doomed to Fail · Farz Sokhansanj, Taylor Pineiro

September 12, 20259m 57sbonusExplicit

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Show Notes

🌋 Volcanoes

Ep 38: Volcanoes Pt 1 - Mt. Toba's Echo: Journey into Earth's Cataclysmic Past

  • A prehistoric eruption so massive it may have nearly wiped out humanity.

Ep 42: Volcanoes Pt 2 - Time Capsule of Tragedy: Exploring Pompeii's Frozen History

  • Mount Vesuvius destroys—and preserves—an entire Roman city in one day.

Ep 46: Volcanoes Pt 3 - The Silent Summer: Tambora's Echo in Time

  • An eruption in 1815 caused global famine and the “year without a summer.”

Ep 51: Volcanoes Pt 4 - Krakatoa: Exploring the Tectonic Plates Beneath the Cataclysmic Eruption

  • One of the loudest sounds in history, an eruption that reshaped the map—and the climate.

Ep 59: Volcanoes Pt 5 - Mud, Fire, and Ash: The Mt. Pelée Eruption

  • In 1902, a pyroclastic flow annihilated the city of Saint-Pierre in seconds.

Ep 66 - Volcanoes Part 6 - George Vancouver, this is it!: The Eruption of Mt. St. Helens

  • When the mountain blew in 1980, it was one of the most iconic eruptions of the 20th century.

Ep 71 - Volcanoes Part 7 - The End of the World - Yellowstone & Mass Extinctions

  • The mother of all volcanoes—and how super-eruptions may have ended worlds before.

 

 

🌍 Other Disasters

Ep 73: Disaster in the Desert: Saga of the Salton Sea

  • An accidental inland sea created by engineering mistakes. Still a toxic mess today.

Ep 74 - Get Your 'Blood's Worth': The Great Fire of London

  • 1666: a bakery fire reduces London to ashes and reshapes the city.

Ep 77 - Cloudy with a Chance of Terror: Cumulonimbus

  • Towering thunderclouds that can shred planes and spark terror.

Ep 78 - Ditka's Inferno: The Great Chicago Fire

  • A cow, a lantern, or just bad luck—Chicago burns in 1871.

Ep 86 - Shake it like you mean it - The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

  • One of the deadliest quakes in U.S. history levels the city in seconds.

Ep 89 - Fire In the Rubble: The Great San Francisco Fire

  • If the quake didn’t get you, the fires afterward did.

Ep 95 - The Highest Graveyard on Earth: Mt. Everest

  • The world’s tallest mountain doubles as the world’s highest graveyard.

Ep 99 - Dying in the Deep: The Blue Hole

  • A diving paradise turned deadly trap in the Red Sea.

Ep 136 - Cave of Doom: John Jones & Nutty Putty Cave

  • A caver gets trapped in a narrow tunnel—rescue efforts turn into tragedy.

Ep 142 - Death Lurking in the Deep - Limnic Eruptions

  • Lakes that suddenly explode with CO₂, suffocating entire villages.

Ep 163: Deep Blue Something - Tom & Eileen Lonergan

  • A couple left behind at sea after a scuba trip. Their disappearance haunts divers to this day.

Ep 164: Incarcerated & Fire Fighting - California's Conservation Camps

Ep 196: Table for 87? - The Donner Party

  • Snowbound pioneers resort to cannibalism in one of America’s darkest survival stories.

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