Earth Sciences: Natural Disasters and Hazards

Online publications, data, bibliographies, and other information relevant to the sociology of disasters.

Links to websites about volcanos, earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and floods.

Government Department of Agriculture and Cooperation information resource, including reports on recent and current disasters and information on management initiatives.

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.

Notes from this workshop on the effectiveness of heat related health watch systems.

Natural disaster information, probability, statistics links and other information. Also provides survival kits and other survival products

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.

Severe weather records and natural disaster links.

Organization which measures the impact of weather on people.