Natural Disasters and Hazards

Network for persons affected by natural disasters. Operated by the International Committee of the Red Cross, in cooperation with the tracing services of the National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Provides mountain weather and avalanche information for the Northwest US, including the Washington Cascades, Olympic Mountains and the northern Oregon Cascades.

University of Memphis (Tennessee). Includes technical information and recent earthquakes data, public awareness and resources for teachers and kids, and ongoing research projects and publications.

Detailed instructions, including diagrams, description of components, setup and synchronization.

Educational portal with Earth Science courses including natural disasters and environmental geology.

Article from the Earth Observatory about the rivers of rock and water that overwhelmed a village on the slopes of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1994.

A behind the scenes look at how the American Red Cross helps the public prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies.

Museum to promote public education about tsunamis for the people of Hawaii and the Pacific Region. The museum will also preserve social and cultural history and serve as a living memorial to those who lost their lives in past tsunami events

Information about the 1960 Chilean tsunami. Includes map of Chile, death toll and damage in dollars.

Features a unique set of tsunami-related database, maps, sets, and publications.

Lecture notes for a course on volcanoes at the University of Massachusetts.

Satellites and ground systems incorporate magnetometers to detect electromagnetic signals associated with earthquakes. These early warning systems can be used for earthquake forecasting and earthquake preparedness.

A seismogram viewer for recent earthquakes using global seismic stations.

A broadband seismological network with mobile network deployments and a data center.

Earthquakes and broadband seismological data in Europe and the Mediterranean area. Includes database resources, recent earthquake monitoring, and a software library.

Alerts users to recent earthquake and potential tsunami activity.

Lightweight aluminum flood barriers for homes and businesses.

Flood fighting and erosion control barriers for emergency management, construction and landscape protection applications.

Flood barrier to protect houses and buildings on riversides. Up to 2 meters in height and unlimited length. Netherlands.

Free and premium software designed to predict economic and environmental damage. Provides product information.

Excellent summaries of eruptions including Puu Oo, the latest.

Ambae (Aoba) volcano information, news, and travel.

Close-up photographs of what lava looks like after it has cooled. Taken at volcanoes in Hawaii and Indonesia.

Includes explanations of volcanology terms, along with eruption updates and pictures.

Photos of the eruption in April 2001, Sudestino and South Craters.

Photographs taken over 10 days on the volcano Etna in Sicilia before and during the eruption which started in mid-May, 2008.

Carbon dioxide gas outbursts from lakes Nyos and Monoun in Cameroon, West Africa, killed hundreds of people. A controlled degassing operation is scheduled to begin in January, 2001, for reducing the risk of future carbon dioxide suffocation.

Encyclopedia article describing the geophysics of the quake, casualties, damage, and emeregency response.

Includes information on victims, news, features, recovery map, videos, photographs, and twitter feeds.

Feature stories and breaking news.

Person finder, maps, videos, links to news, warnings, disaster forums, train and blackout information. [Japanese/English]

The German government, keen not to be seen as tight-fisted in an election year, promises a generous response to patch up flood damage.

Priceless works of art and historic cultural landmarks appear to have been saved from the devastating floods in Prague and Dresden.

An elephant and a hippopotamus are dead and a gorilla is missing after flood waters swamped Prague's zoo.

Flooding in Europe looks set seriously to disrupt the Czech Republic's economy, forcing the government to borrow more.

BBC journalist Michal Ruzicka and his family were among those evacuated from the Karlin district of Prague, along with thousands of others.

As water levels start to recede, Prague surveys the damage inflicted by the worst floods in the Czech capital for 200 years.

Some people returned home as flood waters in Prague receded, but many areas of the historic city remained off-limits after the worst flooding in 200 years.

Various observers provide coverage of the event and its aftermath.

Includes information about how to help.