Seismic Seconds is a documentary television series that aired in 2001 on the National Geographic Channel and later that year on Channel 4. 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 National Geographic version, the narrator says in the voiceover:
The beginning of this voiceover: was later used and modified for the series Seconds From Disaster: