A year ago this week, I covered the Amagasaki train derailment in 2005 in Japan. Why not cover a second one seven years earlier near a small town in Germany?

Videos:

• Seconds from Disaster: The Eschede derailment
• TS2018 Rail Disasters - Derailment at High Speed (1998 Eschede train disaster)
• What Went Wrong: Countdown to Catastrophe: The Eschede Disaster

Articles and books:

• Page about the Eschede train disaster memorial
• Germany recalls the Eschede train disaster
• The Cost of Comfort: The 1998 Eschede Train Derailment

It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke.

Videos:

• A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906

• Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

• The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary

• Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred

• San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]

Articles and books:

• The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts

• The Museum of the City of San Francisco: Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18 - 23, 1906, along with a timeline of the graft investigation

It's early in the morning on a Tuesday when you're awakened by the shaking of your bed, of your entire home. You think for a moment it's the end of the world. You and your family make it out of your home, even though so many others do not. For a moment, you think you are safe. Then, you smell smoke.

Videos:

• A Trip Down Market Street, San Francisco - April 14th, 1906

• Disaster by the Bay: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

• The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Documentary

• Footage of San Francisco's 1906 quake as it occurred

• San Francisco after the devastating earthquake in 1906 like you've never seen before in color! [HD]

Articles and books:

• The San Francisco Earthquake: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the 1906 Disaster, by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts

• The Museum of the City of San Francisco: Timeline of the San Francisco Earthquake, April 18 - 23, 1906, along with a timeline of the graft investigation