Seconds from Disaster - Season 5

Seconds from Disaster - Season 5

Season 5

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DatesMar 11, 2012 - Apr 22, 2012
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Episodes

Japan's Nuclear Nightmare
Season 5Episode 160 min

Japan's Nuclear Nightmare

On March 11, 2011, the largest ever recorded earthquake, a 9.0 on the Richter scale, and tsunami off Japan's coast result in 15,893 deaths, 2,572 missing, and 6,152 injured. Finally, there was the meltdown at the TEPCO Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant causing Prime Minister Naoto Kan to resign five months later on August 25, 2011. The meltdown also displaced around 100,000 people from their homes, jobs, and farms in the nearly 12.5 mile exclusion zone around the reactor.

Mar 11, 2012
Bismarck
Season 5Episode 260 min

Bismarck

After several engagements over the previous days, on May 27, 1941 elements of the Royal Navy sink the German battleship Bismarck.

Mar 18, 2012
Mountain Tsunami
Season 5Episode 360 min

Mountain Tsunami

In 1963, a landslide from Monte Toc into the reservoir of the Europe's highest dam causes a giant flood wave that destroys the village of Longarone and other villages, claiming over 2,000 lives.

Mar 25, 2012
Waco Cult
Season 5Episode 460 min

Waco Cult

They were the Branch Davidians led by charismatic David Koresh. After a 51-day siege at the ranch of an armed religious cult, the Federal Bureau of Investigation tries to end the standoff with tear gas, but a fire breaks out and engulfs the compound. By the end 76 Davidians died and 4 ATF agents, including 22 children.

Apr 1, 2012
Deepwater Horizon
Season 5Episode 560 min

Deepwater Horizon

A series of decisions and mistakes lead to the deaths of 11 oil rig workers and the world's largest oil spill disaster.

Apr 15, 2012
Massacre in Mumbai
Season 5Episode 660 min

Massacre in Mumbai

On November 26, 2008, terrorists attack two luxury hotels (one of them the famous Taj Mahal Hotel), a Jewish educational center, a café and a train station in Mumbai, killing 166 people. They also placed pipe bombs in two taxis, which killed the drivers whilst driving to a hotel.

Apr 22, 2012

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