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Seconds from Disaster

Season 2 · Episode 4

Mount St Helens Eruption (Mount St. Helens Eruption)

9.047mJuly 26, 2005

Mount St. Helens, in the countryside of Washington State, has been dormant for 123 years. But on May 1980, it suddenly erupts, killing 57. Why couldn't they predict it?

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Episodes

Episode 9Hotel Collapse Singapore (Hotel Collapse)

Episode 10TWA Flight 800

Episode 11Paris Train Crash (Runaway Train)

Episode 12The Hindenburg (Hindenburg Airship)

Episode 13Explosion in Peurto Rico (Puerto Rico Gas Explosion)

Episode 14Skywalk Collapse

Episode 15Amsterdam Air Crash (Plane Crash in the Suburbs)

Episode 16Russia's Nuclear Sub Nightmare (Sinking of the Kursk)

Episode 17King's Cross Fire (London's Subway Inferno)

Episode 18US Embassy Bombing (American Embassy Bombing)

Episode 19Florida Swamp Air Crash (Everglades Plane Crash)