While Glenn Powell's Twisters is in theaters, ComingSoon selects some of the best natural disaster movies to watch next.

Is there anything more terrifying than the destructive power of our planet? Earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, violent storms, and more can remind us of our place. And then there’s the threat of things beyond our skies. Chunks of rock hurtling through space on a casual collision course with the first thing that gets in their way,

Here's a selection of the best movies about natural disasters to remind you how insignificant we are

Michael Bay's big, ridiculous melodrama about the coming apocalypse sends a group of expert drillers into space to blow up an asteroid headed for Earth. This kind of natural disaster movie differs from others in that it's largely about preventing disaster rather than experiencing it (unless you take it to planet-destroying extremes like Lars von Trier's Melancholia ). Still, the hopelessness of facing an extinction-level disaster is ever-present.