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On the Web
- Natural Hazards Databases at NGDC - This database, from NOAA and the National Geophysical Data Center, provides extensive post-event information on many types of natural hazards.
- PLANAT - Swiss National Platform Natural Hazards - Independent federal advisory commission aiming to improve preventation of natural hazards. Objectives, past events, actions undertaken, and projects. Reports on floods and avalanches.
- CENAT - Natural Hazards Competence Centre - Research coordination body. Aims to effect interdisciplinary research on the causes of natural hazards, the processes involved, their effects on people and objects, and on appropriate means of protection.
- The Natural Hazards Center - Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Information on human adaptation to disaster.
- Natural Hazards Databases at National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) - Natural Hazards data and educational information including earthquake, tsunami, and stress data
- Natural Hazards Center at Pennsylvania State University - This research and education center brings together a diverse group to develop and implement cross-disciplinary studies in hazard evaluation, forecasting, and mitigation.
- Natural Hazards .org - Atmospheric and Geologic Hazards Information - Information on all types of atmospheric and geologic hazards with links to additional educational resources and active warning sources.
- EPIX - Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange - Information resource on natural hazards with extensive information on disaster management.
- Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange - EPIX provides information and resources on natural hazards and disaster management.
- HazNet - 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.
Wikipedia Articles
- Natural Hazards in Colombia - The Natural disasters in Colombia are the result of several different Natural hazards that affect the country according with its particular geographic and geologic features, which move from potential in to an active phase, and as a result affects human activities. Human vulnerability, exacerbated by the lack of planning or lack of appropriate emergency management, and the fragility of ...
- Standardized Natural Hazards Disclosure Statement - The Natural Hazards Disclosure Act of California, effective June 1, 1998 (as amended June 9, 1998), requires that Seller(s) of real property and their Agent(s) provide any prospective Buyer(s) with a "Natural Hazard Disclosure Statement" when the property being sold lies within one or more state-mapped ...
- Natural hazard - A natural hazard is a situation which has the potential to create an event that has an effect on people. They result from natural processes in the environment and some natural hazards are related - earthquakes can result in tsunamis, drought can lead directly to famine and disease, and so on.
- Disaster area - A disaster area is a region or a locale heavily damaged by either natural hazards, such as tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, earthquakes, technological hazards including nuclear and radiation accidents, or sociological hazards like riots, terrorism or war. The population living there often experiences a loss of energy supply, food, services, and an increasing risk of disease.
- List of environmental health hazards - There are numerous health hazards that can affect people in their natural environment.