Useful Links

(Special thanks to Prof. William L. Waugh Jr., of Georgia State University, for providing many of these links.)

Emergency Management Agencies

- Public Entity Risk Institute
- FEMA Declared Disaster Archives
- Department of Homeland Security
- Federal Emergency Management Agency – also see public and private partners
- National Governors Association site on state emergency management agencies and NGA reports and policy statements on disaster, terrorism, etc.
- District of Columbia Emergency Management Agency (a good example)
- USAID, Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance

Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Assistance
- International humanitarian organizations – UN site
- Information site for InterAction, an association of disaster relief organizations
- National Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster with links to state VOADS

Professional Associations
- International Association of Emergency Managers (primarily local emergency managers)
- National Emergency Management Association (primarily state emergency managers and agencies)

Research and Education
- Natural Hazards Research and Applications Center, University of Colorado:
- Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware
- Benfield Greig Hazards Research Centre, U.K.
- Emergency Management Education – Higher Education Project
- Emergency Information Infrastructure Partnership – Internet conferences
- World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization, Health Library for Disasters (downloadable books, reports, etc.)

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

General Websites on Natural and Technological Hazards
- General disaster site – from government agencies to natural disasters to space weather
- National Weather Service, Storm Prediction Center
- Weather Channel with links to severe weather sites
- NASA satellite images of natural hazards and disasters
- Monitoring of disasters around the world with maps, photos, etc.
- Online news on international relief organizations (Reuters news)
- Global Disaster Information Network – assn of governments, organizations, etc.
- Disaster Central – General information, recent reports and publications, disaster timeline link, Claire Rubin and Associates
- Disaster News Network – reports disaster responses and volunteer opportunities
- Wealth of info on current disasters and disaster relief activities
- General info on disasters – a lot of stuff