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.
http://www.pbs.org/amex/flood/
CBS News Disaster Links 
Information about a variety of manmade and natural disaster-related websites. Quick reference and access to realtime data.
http://www.cbsnews.com/digitaldan/disaster/disasters.shtml
Disaster Research Center 
Online publications, data, bibliographies, and other information relevant to the sociology of disasters.
http://www.udel.edu/DRC/
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.
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=C003603&url=C003603
Geo Monitor 
Links to websites about volcanos, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and floods.
http://www.geomonitor.net/
HazNet 
Provides information on coastal natural hazards (such as hurricanes and shoreline erosion), hazard planning, and things that can be done to reduce personal and economic losses. From U.S. National Sea Grant College Program.
http://www.haznet.org/
Natural Disaster Management in India 
Government Department of Agriculture and Cooperation information resource, including reports on recent and current disasters and information on management initiatives.
http://www.ndmindia.nic.in/
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
http://www.btinternet.com/~mike.ferris/
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 Hum
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLND
Societal Aspects of Weather 
Organization which measures the impact of weather on people.
http://www.ucar.edu/res_sci/societal-impacts.html
Storm Events 
Storm database with records of US storms and tornados by county.
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wwEvent~Storms
The Disaster Files 
Repository of summaries, statistics, links and articles about natural (and some man-made) disasters including earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, floods, blizzards, epidemics, air crashes, explosions and volcanic eruptions.
http://www.eclectic-mall.com/disasterfiles/
Urban Survival Tools 
Natural disaster information, probability, statistics links and other information. Also provides survival kits and other survival products
http://www.urbansurvivaltools.com/
Why the US Is Becoming More Vulnerable to Natural Disasters 
Despite increases in what we know about natural disasters and how to protect ourselves against them, population growth continues along the coasts, where loss of life and property from these disasters are greatest.
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/articles/eisvink.html
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