ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS WEBSITES
Environmental hazards websites
1.
Up-to-date information, including hydraulic fracturing and whether or
not humans can start earthquakes.
http://geognewstectonics.posterous.com/
2.
One of the best sites for up-to-date information on environmental
hazards. Factsheets can be downloaded for free and it allows you to go
into a lot of depth.
http://www.usgs.gov/
3.
Edinburgh Royal Observatory site. Excellent in that it li sts all recent
quakes in a current earthquake report.
http://tsunami.geo.ed.ac.uk/local-bin/quakes/mapscript/home.pl
4.
A Japanese earthquake drill in pictures.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/5305932.stm
5.
Earthquake do’s and dont’s.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgibin/article.cgi?file=/earthquakes/archive/quakedrill.dtl
6.
Japan earthquake statistics.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13388370
7.
Links to Japan earthquake.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12775846
8.
The New York Times links to Japan earthquake.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/24/world/asia/japan interactive-index.html?ref=asia
9.
Aid worker’s diary.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12815474
10.
Pictures of the Japan earthquake.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/massive_earthquake_hits_ja
pan.html
11.
Prediction that worked.
http://news.discovery.com/videos/earth-underwater-volcano-erupts-aspredicted.html
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12.
Some volcano animations.
http://esminfo.prenhall.com/science/geoanimations/animations/35_Volc
anicAct.html
13.
Straightforward volcanic information.
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/pompeii/interactive/interactive.ht
ml
14.
Tsunami animations and pictures.
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/ocean/visualizations/tsunami.
html
15.
Register (free) and get information on tourism of the Eyjafjallajokull
volcano.
http://www.discover-the-world.co.uk/en/
16.
Unbelievable volcano pictures for the Eyjafjallajokull volcano.
http://marieaunet.blogspot.com/2010/04/eyjafjallajokull.html
17.
Earthquake survival from California.
http://www.shakeout.org/
18.
A starting point for the New Zealand earthquake.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10671
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19.
Hurricane Irene link.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14690942
20.
Met Office storm tracker (free, but have to register).
https://logon.metoffice.gov.uk/Login?goto=http://www.metoffice.gov.u
k/premium/stormtracker/
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