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This page is designed to help you use the World Wide Web as a source of information about specific hazard events.

How to begin the search

Choosing a hazard event

Specific hazard themes

How to begin the search

There are a number of gateways which will take you straight into appropriate parts of the Web. Useful ones include (click on the highlighted text to go straight to that Web site) -

http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_

This site contains useful links to other sites dealing with - avalanches, disaster relief, drought, earthquakes, events, fires, floods, hurricanes, nuclear disasters, oil spills, organizations, safety, tornadoes, typhoons, volcanoes

http://www.gov.pe.ca/educ/themes/disasters/disaster.html

This is a good site to start exploring for information about FEMA (the US Federal Emergency Management Agency), geological hazards (including earthquakes and volcanoes), meteorological hazards (including lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes and weather in general), and floods.

NASA's Natural Disasters Reference Database -

http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/ndrd/ndrd3.html

Eye on the World 'Violent Planet' Page -

http://www.iwaynet.net/~kwroejr/violent.html

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Choosing a hazard event

A number of Web sites contain up-to-date information on recent hazard events and disasters. They might be a useful starting point for identifying particular events which you could chase up through other WWW pages.

These sites include -

American Red Cross Disaster News -

http://www.redcross.org/news/disaster.html

Global Disasters Report -

http://hypnos.m.ehime-u.ac.jp/GHDNet/WADEM/GDR96.html

Internet Disaster Information Network -

http://www.disaster.net/index.html

For weather-related hazards try WeatherNet -

http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/

Geological hazards, particularly in the USA, are introduced in the US Geological Survey homepage -

http://gldage.cr.usgs.gov/welcome.html

Useful sources of information on what is happening around the world today include -

CNN Earth page - http://cnn.com/EARTH/index.html

EarthWatch (weather-related) - http://www.earthwatch.com/

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Specific hazard themes

Listed below, by topic, are some useful 'gateway' sites which will get you into the appropriate parts of the Web. Each contains links to related pages, so these are sensible places to start 'surfing the Net' from. Click on to the topic to go to the associated gateway sites.

Blizzards and snow

Disaster relief and response

FEMA (US Federal Emergency Management Agency)

Nuclear disasters

Storms and thunderstorms

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Avalanches

A good starting point is -

http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Earth_Sciences/Meteorology/Weather_ ...

The Cyberspace Snow and Avalanche Centre is at - http://www.csac.org/

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Blizzards and snow

A good starting point is -

http://www.iwaynet.net/~kwroejr/violent.html

1996 blizzards in north-east USA - http://met-www.cit.cornell.edu/blizzard96.html

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Disaster Relief and Response

A good starting point is -

http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Organizations/Public_Interest_ ...

Other useful sites include -

http://www.redcross.org/what-we-do/disaster-relief

Disaster Recovery Training for Volunteers http://etraintoday.com/about-us/disaster-recovery/

The American Red Cross - http://www.redcross.org/

ReliefNet - http://www.reliefnet.org/

ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int/

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Drought

Good starting points include -

http://enso.unl.edu/ndmc/go/go.htm

http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/United_States/Regions/Midwest/ ...

http://www.iwaynet.net/~kwroejr/violent.html

1996 US drought - http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/dust.htm

US National Drought Mitigation Centre - http://enso.unl.edu/ndmc/index.html

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Earthquakes

Good starting points include -

http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Earth_Sciences/Geology_and_Geophysics/ ...

http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/earthquake.html

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/

http://www.iwaynet.net/~kwroejr/violent.html

Information about current/recent earthquake events can be found at -

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/current_seismicity.shtml

US National Earthquake Information Centre-

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/

Information about past earthquake events can be found at -

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/epic/epic.html

San Francisco (1906) -

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/more/1906/

http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/06.html

Northridge, California (1994) -

http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/northridge/

Kobe, Japan (1995)

http://www.eqe.com/publications/kobe/kobe.htm

http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Earth_Sciences/Geology_and_Geophysics/ ...

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FEMA (the US Federal Emergency Management Agency)

http://www.fema.gov/

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Fires

Good starting points include -

http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_and_Nature/ ...

http://www.iwaynet.net/~kwroejr/violent.html

http://www.teleport.com/~wildfire/index.html

http://www.csu.edu.au/firenet/

Yellowstone National Park - http://www.idahonews.com/yellowst/yelofire.htm

The Great Chicago fire - http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/

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Floods

Good starting points include -

http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Earth_Sciences/Meteorology/Weather_ ...

http://www.iwaynet.net/~kwroejr/violent.html

Coping with floods - http://www.fema.gov/fema/floodf.html

Floodplain management - http://floodplain.org/

1993 Mississippi floods - http://www.fema.gov/fema/photo03.html

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Hurricanes

Good starting points include -

http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Earth_Sciences/Meteorology/Weather_ ...

http://www.iwaynet.net/~kwroejr/violent.html

http://www.yatcom.com/neworl/weather/hurricane.html

Current and recent hurricane events - http://www.fema.gov/fema/trop.html

US National Hurricane Centre - http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

The American Red Cross Hurricane Centre -

http://www.redcross.org/news/disaster/96/hcane.html

Atlantic hurricanes -

http://www.aer.com/hurricane/hurricane.html

http://www.coresw.com/~ddemko/atltrop.html

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Landslides

A good starting point is -

http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/landslide.html

US National Landslide Information Centre -

http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/html_files/nlicsun.html

US National Landslide Hazards Programme -

http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/html_files/landslides/program.html

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Lightning

Good starting points include -

http://www.iwaynet.net/~kwroejr/violent.html

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/modules/lightning/1.html

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Nuclear Disasters

A good starting point is -

http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_and_Nature/ ...

The 1986 accident at Chernobyl -

http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Ukraine/Cities/Chernobyl/ ...

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Oil Spills

A good starting point is -

http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_and_Nature/ ...

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Organizations

A good starting point is -

http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_and_Nature/ ...

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Storms and Thunderstorms

Good starting points include -

http://www.iwaynet.net/~kwroejr/violent.html

http://www.whytel.com/users/kbhayni/

http://lumahai.soest.hawaii.edu/Severe_Weather/severe.html

CNN Storm Centre - http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/storm.center/index.html

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Tornadoes

Good starting points include -

http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Earth_Sciences/Meteorology/Weather_ ...

http://www.iwaynet.net/~kwroejr/violent.html

http://www.whytel.com/users/kbhayni/

Coping with tornadoes - http://www.times.st-pete.fl.us/weather/SP.5.html

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Tsunamis

Good starting points include -

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/welcome.html

http://www.ccalmr.ogi.edu/STH/links.html

http://www.iwaynet.net/~kwroejr/violent.html

Recent tsunami events - http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/specialized/events/events.html

Historic tsunami events -

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/historic/historic.html

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/tsu.html

Pacific Tsunami Warning System -

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general/warning/warning.html

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Typhoons

A good starting point is -

http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Earth_Sciences/Meteorology/Weather ...

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Volcanoes

Good starting points include -

http://www.yahoo.com/Science/Earth_Sciences/Geology_and_Geophysics/ ...

http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/~fisher/

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/framework.html

http://www.iwaynet.net/~kwroejr/violent.html

Current and recent volcanic events - http://volcano.und.nodak. ...

Montserrat, West Indies (1997) -

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/montserrat/montserrat.html

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Montserrat/framework.html

Mount St Helens (USA) -

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/framework.html

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/msh.html

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/msh/msh.html

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/framework.cascades.html

Hawaii -

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/kilauea/kilauea.html

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Hawaii/framework.html

Mount Pinatubo, Philippines -

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Pinatubo/framework.html

Ruapehu, New Zealand -

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/ruapehu/ruapehu.html

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Ruapehu/framework.html

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