Natural Disasters and Hazards

Natural Disasters and Hazards Links

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.
The WWW Virtual Library: Hazards and Risk Natural and man-made disasters, preparedness, impacts, and mitigation.
Living Almanac of Disasters Almanac of historical disasters listed by date of the year.
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).
Geo Monitor Links to websites about volcanos, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and floods.
Disaster Research Center Online Publications, Data, Bibliographies, and other information relevant to the sociology of disasters.
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.

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