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This category serves as a collection and reference point for those parts of earth science concerned with earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural events causing damage and destruction. Resources include educational materials for dealing with natural disasters, links to other categories exploring more particular hazards, and research on disasters as such.

Disaster_Relief_and_Recovery@	Earthquakes@
Geologic_Hazards@	Landslides@
Large_Near_Earth_Object_Impacts@	Emergency Management
Avalanches	Education and Research
Floods	Multimedia
News and Media	Preparedness
Warnings and Forecasts	Wildfires
Oil Spills	Catastrophes
Disasters	Tsunami@
Volcanoes@	Weather_Phenomena@

• A Procedure to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Two Watch Warning Systems Notes from this workshop on the effectiveness of heat related health watch systems.
• American Experience: Fatal Flood Companion site to the PBS documentary about the 1927 flooding of the Mississippi River. Includes timeline, maps, profiles of people and events, teacher's guide, and info about the film.
• CBS News Disaster Links Information about a variety of manmade and natural disaster-related websites. Quick reference and access to realtime data.
• CBS News Disaster Links Information about a variety of manmade and natural disaster-related websites. Quick reference and access to realtime data.
• Cyclone of 1896 St. Louis, Missouri Photographic views of damage caused by cyclone of May 27, 1896.
• Disaster Research Center Online publications, data, bibliographies, and other information relevant to the sociology of disasters.
• Eyewitness to Disaster: California Earthquakes Collection of eyewitness accounts, humor, and pictures of historic California earthquakes.
• Forces of Nature Educational information about natural phenomena and different natural disasters. Includes information about the causes of disasters as well as lists of the worst recorded type of each disaster.
• Geo Monitor Links to websites about volcanos, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and floods.
• HazNet Provides information on coastal natural hazards (such as hurricanes and shoreline erosion), hazard planning, and things that can be done to reduce personal and economic losses. From U.S. National Sea Grant College Program.
• Largest Earthquakes in the United States Maps and statistics from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
• National Climatic Data Center Severe weather records and natural disaster links.
• Natural Disaster Management in India Government Department of Agriculture and Cooperation information resource, including reports on recent and current disasters and information on management initiatives.
• Natural Disasters and Catastrophes About the causes, consequences and costs (if appropriate) of natural disasters and catastrophes. Includes specific commentary, features and statistics on a variety of subjects (i.e. volcanic activity) and a regularly updated listing of world-wide natural disasters effective January 1999.
• ReliefWeb: Natural Disasters Archived information, from 1981 to the present, about major natural disasters, including floods, droughts, fires, earthquakes, hurricanes, and cyclones, focussing on international humanitarian relief efforts. From the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
• Societal Aspects of Weather Organization which measures the impact of weather on people.
• Storm Events Storm database with records of US storms and tornados by county.
• The Disaster Files Repository of summaries, statistics, links and articles about natural (and some man-made) disasters including earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, floods, blizzards, epidemics, air crashes, explosions and volcanic eruptions.
• The WWW Virtual Library: Hazards and Risk Natural and man-made disasters, preparedness, impacts, and mitigation.
• Urban Survival Tools Natural disaster information, probability, statistics links and other information. Also provides survival kits and other survival products
• Weather Reports A searchable database of storm events from the National Climatic Data Center.
• Why the US Is Becoming More Vulnerable to Natural Disasters Despite increases in what we know about natural disasters and how to protect ourselves against them, population growth continues along the coasts, where loss of life and property from these disasters are greatest.

 

 

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