  We all heard the news four years ago about a group of foolish tourists who made the mistake of visiting an active volcano and died as a result. Or at least, that's how the stories made them sound.   Videos:   The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari (Netflix)  Sky News Australia airs Krystal Browitt video of tour guide warning   Trapped in the Volcano   Articles and books:    Eruption of Whakaari (White Island) kills ten people: September 10th, 1914   This is the family that owns the Whakaari volcanic Island   The December 2019 hydrothermal explosion at White Island (Whakaari), New Zealand, and its lessons for Yellowstone   White Island volcano: what we know about the victims   White Island volcano eruption: Whakaari Management found guilty of ‘astonishing’ safety failures   Why the New Zealand volcano eruption caught the world by surprise  Insights into the 9 December 2019 eruption of Whakaari/White Island from analysis of TROPOMI SO2 imagery  White Island volcano: NZ officials charge 13 parties over tragedy  Geonet Volcanic Alert Levels  

Episode 224: The 2019 Whakaari eruption

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A year ago this week, I covered the Amagasaki train derailment in 2005 in Japan. Why not cover a second one seven years earlier near a small town in Germany? Videos:   Seconds from Disaster: The Eschede derailment  TS2018 Rail Disasters - Derailment at High Speed (1998 Eschede train disaster)   What Went Wrong: Countdown to Catastrophe: The Eschede Disaster   Articles and books:    Page about the Eschede train disaster memorial   Germany recalls the Eschede train disaster   The Cost of Comfort: The 1998 Eschede Train Derailment  

Episode 235: The Eschede train disaster

It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke. Videos:   A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906   Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906    The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary   Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred   San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]   Articles and books:    The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts   The Museum of the City of San Francisco: Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18 - 23, 1906, along with a timeline of the graft investigation  

Episode 234: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part Three

Episode 233: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part Two

It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke. Videos:   A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906  Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906   The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary  Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred  San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]   Articles and books:    The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts  The Museum of the City of San Francisco: Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18 - 23, 1906, along with a timeline of the graft investigation  

Episode 232: The 1906 San Francisco earthquake - Part One

The deadliest fire in American history happened not in Chicago, but in a small Wisconsin town to the north of Chicago on the exact same day - October 8th, 1871. Videos:   Watch now: The story of the tabernacle in the Peshtigo Fire   Lake Michigan shipwreck; sank during 1871 Peshtigo Fire   Articles and books:    Firestorm at Peshtigo, by Denise Gess and William Lotz   The Great Midwest Wildfires of 1871   Wisconsin Shipwrecks: The George L. Newman    

Episode 224: The 2019 Whakaari eruption

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