Seismic Seconds

Seismic Seconds
GenreDocumentary
Disaster
Country of originUnited Kingdom
United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
Running time22 minutes
Production companyNational Geographic Society
Original release
NetworkNational Geographic Channel
ReleaseLate 1990s (Late 1990s)
Related
Seconds from Disaster
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Seismic Seconds is a documentary television series that aired in the late 1990s on the National Geographic Channel. The program analysed the causes of six incidents, five involving the loss of human life. The better-known sequel to Seismic Seconds, Seconds From Disaster, was spun off from the series.

In the British version, the narrator says in the voiceover:

Disasters don't just happen. They're the result of a sequence of events, locked together in time. The science behind what went wrong is hidden in those seismic seconds.

The beginning of this voiceover:

Disasters don't just happen. They're the result of a sequence of events

was later used and modified for the series Seconds From Disaster:

Disasters don't just happen. They're the result of a critical chain of events.