On the morning of 8 May 1902, the Caribbean city of Saint-Pierre was alive with routine, unaware it had less than a minute left to exist. When Mount Pelée erupted at 07:52 a.m., a superheated pyroclastic surge raced down the volcano's flank and erased an entire city almost instantly, killing around 28,000 people. There was no lava river, no slow warning, and almost no chance of escape. In this episode of Compact Disasters, we reconstruct the final weeks before the eruption, the fatal decisions that kept people in harm's way, the science behind the blast, and how Mount Pelée permanently changed the way the world understands volcanic danger.

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In 2010, a volcanic eruption beneath an Icelandic glacier did something no government or crisis had ever achieved. It shut down European air travel. In this Compact Disasters episode, we explore how Eyjafjallajökull grounded millions, disrupted global supply chains, and revealed just how fragile modern systems really are.

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How does a warship sink within minutes of launch? In this Compact Disasters episode, we explore the sinking of the Vasa, Sweden's most ambitious naval project, and how politics, pressure, and poor engineering sent it to the bottom of Stockholm harbour in 1628.

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