Natural Disasters and Hazards Earth Sciences


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 Hum








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  • A Procedure to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Two Watch Warning Systems - Notes from this workshop on the effectiveness of heat related health watch systems.
  • Forces of Nature - Educational information about natural phenomena and different natural science disasters. Includes information about the causes of disasters science as well as lists of the worst recorded science type of each disaster.
  • Cyclone of 1896 St. Louis, Missouri - Photographic views of damage caused by cyclone of May 27, 1896.
  • Storm Events - Storm database with records of US storms and natural disasters and hazards tornados by county.
  • Urban Survival Tools - Natural disaster information, probability, statistics links and other information. Also provides survival kits and other survival products
  • 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 earth sciences disaster-related websites. Quick reference and access to realtime earth sciences data.
  • UN OCHA ReliefWeb: Natural Disasters - Archived information, from 1981 to the present, about natural disasters and earth sciences hazards major natural disasters, including floods, droughts, fires, earthquakes, natural disasters earth sciences and hazards hurricanes, and cyclones, focussing on international humanitarian relief natural earth sciences disasters and hazards efforts. From the UN Office for the Coordination earth sciences natural disasters and hazards of Hum
  • HazNet - Provides information on coastal natural hazards (such as hurricanes and science shoreline erosion), hazard planning, and things that can be done science to reduce personal and economic losses. From U.S. National Sea science Grant College Program.
  • Natural Disaster Management in India - Government Department of Agriculture and Cooperation information resource, including reports science on recent and current disasters and information on management initiatives.
  • Societal Aspects of Weather - Organization which measures the impact of weather on earth sciences people.
  • FEMA: United States Earthquakes - Maps and statistics from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
  • Natural Disasters Association - Provides information on different types of disasters, courses, earth sciences education natural disasters and hazards and a forum.
  • Why the US Is Becoming More Vulnerable to Natural Disasters - Despite increases in what we know about natural disasters and earth sciences how to protect ourselves against them, population growth continues along earth sciences the coasts, where loss of life and property from these earth sciences disasters are greatest.
  • Global Risk Identification Program - GRIP targets areas of the world where disaster is a natural disasters and hazards major factor in reducing sustainable development. Its objectives are to natural disasters and hazards improve the evidence base for disaster risks and improve risk natural disasters and hazards management strategies.
  • National Climatic Data Center - Severe weather records and natural disaster links.
  • Disaster Research Center - Online publications, data, bibliographies, and other information relevant natural disasters and earth sciences hazards to the sociology of disasters.


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