The 1. 1 Most Awe- Inspiring Disaster Movies. The disaster movie is as much a part of cinematic history as science fiction or horror, especially after gaining prominence in the with 1. The Poseidon Adventure and 1. Earthquake. Ever since those blockbusters,  the epidemic of natural disaster- related movies has been as relentless and persistent as a full blown twister.

The budgets that go into these movies are very high and show just how bankable these movies can be. Roland Emmerich has made a career out of destroying America with blockbuster films like The Day After Tomorrow and 2. Just this year, Dwayne Johnson scored a blockbuster hit with San Andreas. Here is Screenrant’s Top 1.

Most Awe- Inspiring Natural Disasters Ever Put to Film. Volcano (1. 99. 7)This 1. Mick Jackson has a great cast, including Tommy Lee Jones and Don Cheadle.

Jones plays Mike Roark, the head of the Los Angeles County Office of Emergency Management, a man who tries to derail the path of lava from Mount Wilshire, a volcano that has erupted beneath the city. Watch Jonah Hex Online Hulu. After the eruption triggers an earthquake that wreaks havoc on the city, Roark tries to prevent the lava from flowing into the streets of Los Angeles, but is unsuccessful. The lava eventually flows through the city, melting everything in its path, among which are two poor firefighters.

Lives are sacrificed, limbs are burnt, the city turns into magma hell, and people go missing as authorities try to prevent more damage. The lava the crew used in the film was primarily made of methylcellulose, a thickening agent used in fast- food milkshakes. There’s something comforting in watching a disaster movie that is so convinced of its own importance: In a rather comical epilogue, a title proclaims that Mount Wilshire is still in an active state, as if the film is a warning for what’s coming.

Only, Mount Wilshire is fictitious, and Los Angeles is in far more danger of a massive earthquake than a volcanic eruption. Dante’s Peak (1. 99. The titular peak is a dormant volcano located in the Cascades. Pierce Brosnan plays a volcanologist (yes, that is a real job) who discovers that Dante’s Peak can and will erupt any second. His attempt to save the residents of the town, however, is obstructed by the city council and even his own boss, due to the income the town is earning from it’s new found title of second most desirable place to live in America. Just as the town is put on alert, a series of earthquakes cause the volcano to blow. Since this is a disaster movie, the flow of ash eventually demolishes the entire town, but not before the audience gets to see some amazing visuals of the destruction, as lava pours down the mountain destroying everything in its path. The Impossible (2.

The 2. 00. 4 Indian Ocean tsunami was nothing to laugh about, killing 2. The tragic story told in The Impossible, starring Naomi Watts and Ewan Mc. Gregor, is just one of hundreds of thousands that actually occurred. This is the true story of a family vacationing at a Thai resort who get swept up by the tsunami. The results are terrifying, as the family members are captured by the water and lose touch with each other, leaving them only with the hope that their loved ones are still alive. Many of the extras in the film were actual survivors of the tsunami, and the scene where the tsunami hits the resort could only be filmed once due to the preposterously high cost of shooting. The actual family who lived through this terrible ordeal were on set every day of the shoot to give the filmmakers and actors insight on the exact details.

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Released the same year as Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Roland Emmerich’s bombastic disaster epic is slightly less subtle film about the effects of climate change. By Emmerich’s thinking, or at least by the scientists who populate his film, the warming of the earth’s climate will eventually result in the coming of another ice age. Having already destroyed a number of American cities with alien attacks in Independence Day, Emmerich decided to give it another go with ~nature~, as the freezing of the climate triggers a series of natural disasters across the world.

The hot molten rock beneath Yellowstone National Park is 2 ½ times larger than previously estimated, meaning the park's supervolcano has the potential to erupt with. Did you see those packs of water being sold at a Best Buy store in Houston for as much as $42 per pack? The photos went viral as an example of predatory price-gouging. As Hurricane Irma rakes the west coast of Florida, all eyes are on the cities and human lives in the storm’s path. But Irma is also hammering the Florida Everglades. On May 18, 1980, a major volcanic eruption occurred at Mount St. Helens, a volcano located in Skamania County, in the state of Washington, United States.

The most memorable shot of the film arrives when a tsunami ensconces the Statue of Liberty on its way to Manhattan, not unlike a similar scene in Deep Impact, proving that nothing symbolizes the fall of American society like the image of Lady Liberty brought to her knees. All of the movies on our list concentrate their efforts on one particular natural disaster.

EVERYTHING – which disaster connoisseur Roland Emmerich inevitably sees as the result climate change and the rising temperature of the earth’s core. It plays like The Day After Tomorrow on steroids, throwing everything at the audience in a smorgasbord of intense, gratuitous disaster scenes: volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods, mega- tsunamis, and many more fill the film’s 1. CGI effects seen at the time of the film’s release. All this of course correlates to the Mayan prediction of a terrible apocalypse that would be coming on the 2. December, 2. 01. 2. It clearly didn’t, which makes this the least re- watchable movie on our list.

Hard Rain (1. 99. The filmmakers of this 1. Midwest history. The natural disaster that occurs in the film’s small Indiana town complicates a heist, as it causes a dam accident that ends up flooding the whole town. A critical bomb when it came out, Hard Rain has now become a guilty pleasure whenever it appears on our television set. The production built the largest aquatic film set in history (that is, until Titanicbeat the record a few weeks after filming started). Many of Hard Rain‘s cast and crew ended up with bad cases of hypothermia due to the damp conditions of the set. Star Minnie Driver claimed she hated her experience on the movie due to the conditions.

The Core (2. 00. 3)The natural disaster of 2. The Core occurs when the Earth’s core has stopped spinning and as a result, a domino effect takes place on Earth: pacemakers quit working, birds go crazy, hurricanes form and thunderstorms ensue. So what does humanity to do when such a situation occurs?

They call up a dynamite crew of six Americans, played by Hillary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Aaron Eckhart, Bruce Greenwood, Stanley Tucci, and best of all, a computer hacker played by DJ Qualls. In a situation where the existence of humanity is at stake, leave it to DJ Qualls to take care of the programming. In all honesty, the movie is entertaining enough to justify its tacky premise, but maybe not the cheesy dialogue uttered by this indelibly classy team of “terranauts.”Deep Impact (1. If 1. 99. 7 was the year of the volcano, 1. A 7- mile- wide comet is set to hit earth and cause mass destruction in this 1.

Armageddon. The comet needs to be destroyed or the inhabitants of Earth will be destroyed instead, except, of course, the lucky people who have shelters. They’ll survive. That is the plot of. Deep Impact, an $8. Earth movie of the year. Take that, Armageddon.

Not that any Michael Bay movie really aims to be scientifically accurate, but Deep Impact‘s searing moment comes once the comet hits earth and the Statue of Liberty is swallowed up by the tsunami that ensues (along with the Brooklyn Bridge and all of Manhattan). Lady Liberty later re- appears, sliding down a New York avenue in full force. Twister (1. 99. 6)You can whine all you want about Sharknado‘s exclusion from this list, but the ultimate tornado movie is still this 1. Jan de Bont (Speed). Billy (Bill Paxton) and Jo (Helen Hunt) are pair of (questionably happily) married storm chasers, who create a measuring device that can be inserted into the funnel of the tornado. This plot gives way for some of the most exhilarating disaster sequences of the 1. The indelible, iconic image that stands out is that of a cow being picked up by the tornado as the twister hits its peak.

The climactic sequence that had audiences holding on to their seats featured Billy and Jo in the thick of the F- 5 tornado, fighting for their lives.

Yellowstone magma much bigger than thought (Update). This graphic provided by University of Utah geophysicists shows the first large- scale picture of the electrical conductivity of the gigantic underground plume of hot and partly molten rock that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano. The plume of molten rock feeding the supervolcano under the surface of Yellowstone National Park is much larger than previously thought, according to University of Utah geophysicists whose findings will be published in Geophysical Research Letters. AP Photo/University of Utah, File). The hot molten rock beneath Yellowstone National Park is 2 ½ times larger than previously estimated, meaning the park's supervolcano has the potential to erupt with a force about 2,0. 16 And Pregnant Season 1. Mount St. Helens, according to a new study.

By measuring seismic waves from earthquakes, scientists were able to map the magma chamber underneath the Yellowstone caldera as 5. Jamie Farrell of the University of Utah said Monday. The chamber is 1.

That means there is enough volcanic material below the surface to match the largest of the supervolcano's three eruptions over the last 2. Farrell said. The largest blast—the volcano's first—was 2,0. Mount St. Helens in Washington state. A similar one would spew large amounts of volcanic material in the atmosphere, where it would circle the earth, he said."It would be a global event," Farrell said. There would be a lot of destruction and a lot of impacts around the globe."The last Yellowstone eruption happened 6.

U. S. Geological Survey. For years, observers tracking earthquake swarms under Yellowstone have warned the caldera is overdue to erupt. In this Friday, Aug. Yellowstone National Park photograph the Old Faithful geyser as it rockets 1. Wyoming. Hundreds of small earthquakes at Yellowstone National Park in recent weeks have been an unsettling reminder for some people that underneath the park's famous geysers and majestic scenery lurks one of the world's biggest volcanoes. AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File).

Farrell dismissed that notion, saying there isn't enough data to estimate the timing of the next eruption."We do believe there will be another eruption, we just don't know when," he said. There are enough instruments monitoring the seismic activity of Yellowstone that scientists would likely know well ahead of time if there was unusual activity happening and magma was moving to the surface, Farrell said. The USGS' Yellowstone Volcano Observatory listed the park's volcano alert level as "normal" for December.

Yellowstone attracts millions of visitors with its geothermal features of geysers, hot springs and bubbling mud pots. The park just opened its gates on Sunday for its winter season. Park officials did not immediately return a call for comment. A large earthquake at Yellowstone is much more likely than a volcano eruption, Farrell said. The 7. 5- magnitude Hebgen Lake earthquake killed 2.

Farrell presented his findings last week to the American Geophysical Union. He said he is submitting it to a scholarly journal for peer review and publication.

Brigham Young University geology professor Eric Christiansen said the study by Farrell and University of Utah Professor Bob Smith is very important to understanding the evolution of large volcanos such as Yellowstone's."It helps us understand the active system," Christiansen said. It's not at the point where we need to worry about an imminent eruption, but every piece of information we have will prepare us for that eventuality.". Explore further: Yellowstone's Steamboat geyser sees rare eruption. The Associated Press. All rights reserved.