Natural Hazards data and educational information including earthquake, tsunami, and stress data
Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Information on human adaptation to disaster.
US Geological Survey resources on hazards related to earthquakes, landslides, and geomagnetism.
Research and training programs on volcanic and seismic hazards and their mitigation, as well as disaster response.
Web companion to the PBS show, produced by New York's WNET, on natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. Includes detailed animations, QuickTime movies, survivors' stories, and links.
Current worldwide natural disaster warnings and updates - volcanoes, flooding, landslides, drought, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis / tidal waves, meteor showers and solar flares, wildfires, severe weather warnings, disaster archives, record-breaking disasters and earth games.
Public-education gateway to U.S. Geologic Survey information on hazards.
An information center on geology and geologic hazards in urban planning and management. Includes case studies. Users are invited to contribute. [May not display properly in all browsers.]
About ongoing research in earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, glacial lake outbursts, mud flows, mud volcanism and sudden land subsidence.
History of the 1986 disaster at Lake Nyos and details of a French plan to mitigate the effect of future disasters through degassing.
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