When the Earth really moves, it means disaster on an epic scale. Desperate Hours looks at the destructive force of earthquakes and looks at the 2015 Kathmandu earthquake in Nepal, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China where an estimated 10,000 children were trapped in collapsed school buildings, a 1960 Puerto Mont earthquake in Chile, the 2010 Port-au-Princ earthquake in Haiti, and the 2005 Kashmir earthquake in Pakistan.