Nova

Deadliest Volcanoes

Season 39, Episode 1 of 11

Millions of people around the world live in the shadow of active volcanoes. Under constant threat of massive volcanic eruptions, their homes and their lives are daily at risk from these sleeping giants. From Japan's Mount Fuji to the "Sleeping Giant" submerged beneath Naples to the Yellowstone "supervolcano" in the United States, travel with scientists from around the world who are at work on these sites, attempting to discover how likely these volcanoes are to erupt, when eruptions might happen and how deadly they could prove to be.

Previously Aired

Day
Time
Channel
1/4/2012
9 p.m.
1/5/2012
2 a.m.
1/8/2012
5 p.m.
3/8/2015
8 a.m.
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