Information on Many Kinds of Event, Natural hazard or Natural Disaster:
Beginning Research and/or Choosing a topic
Natural Hazards Gateway from usa.gov - simple fact sheets with useful keywords for
more advanced searches.
NOAAWatch – gives a good list of hazards to investigate, with basic information
National Geophysical Data Center – Natural Hazards Page
Global Disaster Alert and Information System: "The Global Disaster Alert and
Coordination System provides near real-time alerts about natural disasters around the
world and tools to facilitate response coordination."
USGS US Geological Survey: Natural Hazards Gateway
For Impact and News
Global Issues in Context (pwd.=same as Knowledge Ontario)
GREENR (pwd.=same as ACCESSSCIENCE)
The 4 Spheres: Try Intute
Hurricane Topics:
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USA.gov)
Sedimental Reasons from NASA - satellite imagery & text show flooding and sediment
load in rivers after Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
Earthquake Topics:
U.S. Geological Survey: Earthquake Topics: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/
Check out these categories: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/faq/
Earthquake Hazards Program. The National Earthquake Information Center is a good
source for earthquake information all over the world.
Seismosurfing the Internet. A good list of connections to seismic data or earthquake
information.
Drought Topics:
http://www.drought.noaa.gov/
Tsunami Topics:
PMEL Tsunami Research Program. This site focuses on the Northwestern United States,
but has a lot of information pertaining to tsunamis worldwide as well (including a mockup of the Indonesia tsunami).
Tsunamis and Earthquakes. The United States Geological Society has put this excellent
resource together that shows how earthquakes and tsunamis go hand in hand.
Government Agencies for Tsunami information Asian Governments & the Tsunami
Volcano Topics:
Volcano World. This site is put together by the University of North Dakota, and gives a
very complete overall look at what the world's volcanoes are doing.
Natural Disasters News and Information
CBS News Disaster Links: An extremely large repository of natural disaster links. Some
are not great – choose government agencies and universities.
CIDI. The Center for International Disaster Information has up to the minute information
on the latest natural disaster affecting the world.
Yahoo Directory of Natural and Man-Made Disasters: tons of natural disaster links,
from tsunamis to earthquakes to floods.
Global Disaster Alert and Information System: "The Global Disaster Alert and
Coordination System provides near real-time alerts about natural disasters around the
world and tools to facilitate response coordination."
N.B. The EPA Environmental Protection Agency is surprisingly useless – more about how
to prepare for a disaster and how to survive one.