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Useful
Links
(Special
thanks to Prof. William L. Waugh Jr., of Georgia State University, for providing
many of these links.)
Emergency Management Agencies
Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Assistance
Professional Associations
Research and Education
Natural and Technological
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National Drought Information Center |
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Windstorms |
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USDA Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management site |
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Global Fire Monitoring Center/UN and Federal Republic of Germany links to US and other fire programs |
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Firewise communities website |
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City website on wildfire prevention |
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US Fire Administration |
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US Dept of Commerce, National Institute for Standards and Technology, |
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Global and US listing of seismic hazard sites |
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US Geological Survey site for seismic, landslide, and other geophysical hazards in the western U.S. |
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Japanese website on Kobe earthquake pictures! |
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Seismo-Watch, international news on earthquakes, reports, etc. |
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US Geological Survey Volcano Program |
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Volcano website with links to live volcano cams and information from around the world, website in English, Italian and German |
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National Hurricane Center |
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Colorado State University, William Grays hurricane forecast and model |
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Philippine website on typhoons in NW Pacific and South China Sea |
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Severe Storms Laboratory |
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Basic tsunami info including animation |
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International Tsunami Information Center |
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Environmental Protection Agency, Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention |
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National Transportation Safety Board site for aviation, rail, maritime, highway, and pipeline accidents |
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News on aircraft crashes, photos, etc. |
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More than you want to know about airplane crashes |
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Monterey Institute for International Studies, Center for Nonproliferation Studies Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism site, reports, documents, etc. |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Bioterrorism site |
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Nuclear Threat Initiative, Nuclear Proliferation and terrorism |
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Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, info and grants |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Epidemiological Intelligence Service |
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Dept of Health and Human Services, Disaster Mental Health site |
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US National Library of Medicine site on disasters and emergency medicine, part of the MEDLINEplus website with a number of interesting links and articles |
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Los Angeles Public Health agency (good local example) |
General Websites on Natural and Technological
Hazards
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