Alive

The massive Cyprus Street viaduct traps dozens of people after an earthquake strikes San Francisco.

An EF5-rated multiple-vortex tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri late in the afternoon in 2011.

A nightclub fire kills 100 and injures 230 as a pyrotechnics display ignites with terrifying speed.

Hurricane Ike builds up steam in Galveston, TX, causing a storm more powerful than anyone predicted.

A town in the French-Canadian landscape is rocked when a 74-car freight train derails in downtown.

A dropped socket wrench leads to the destruction of a Titan II missile carrying a nuclear warhead.

A major avalanche kills 29 people and injures 11 others in Rigopiano, Italy in 2017.

A major avalanche kills 29 people and injures 11 others in Rigopiano, Italy in 2017.

A professional hockey player is stranded in a region of Mammoth Mountain, CA while snowboarding.

Two men embark on a canoe journey through the Canadian wilds when they get more than they hoped for.

Two newlyweds are trapped miles under a mountain on an ice cave exploration adventure gone wrong.

Two climbers reach a summit in the Rockies only to learn they are in for more than they expected.

Boxing Day, 2004. Families on a Thai beach are unaware that a powerful wave is building off-shore.

As a mine shaft collapses on 9 miners, they realize that rescue efforts will be nearly impossible.