Disasters

General	Air Accidents
Blizzards	Bushfires
Cyclones	Drought
Earthquakes	El Nino
Famine	Floods
Hurricanes	Nuclear
Oil Spills	Storms
Tornadoes	Tsunami
Volcanoes

General

Hazards and risks Virtual Library by topic	United Nations ReliefWeb
LawLink NSW - Thredbo landslide	The living almanac of disasters
Federally declared disasters by calendar year (USA)	The Armenian Genocide
Natural Hazards Research Centre	Natural Disaster Reference Database
Current Phenomena	Phenomena backgrounders
Titanic news stories 1912	Natural Hazards Online Database
Natural Hazards Main Page	Man made disasters
Center for International Disaster Information	WebMagic's WebGuide disasters.com
Discovery Channel Natural Disasters

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Air and space accidents

PlaneCrashInfo.com	AirDisaster.com
Aviation Safety Network	Yahoo! Specific crashes
Pan Am Flight 103 - Lockerbie crash	Concorde Accident July 2000
Australian Society of Air Safety Investigators	The Hindenburg
Accidents and incidents of selected US carriers	Challenger Accident

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Bushfires

Bushfires and other emergencies - Victoria	Country Fire Authority
FireNet Information Network	Fire related links
Firebreak Australia	Project Fireguard
Bushfire weather	Yellowstone fires and their legacy

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Drought

Living with drought	Understanding Drought - CSIRO
Drought disasters	ABS Drought in Australia
Drought in Australia	Drought Statement 31st July 2001
Drought management - Victoria

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Earthquakes

1995 Kobe Earthquake	Yahoo!-Seismology
What's shakin?	Earthquake Information for the world
Tsunami!	Kobe, Japan
NEIC General earthquake information	Earthquakes
San Francisco, 1906	The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
The World Wide Earthquake Locator	Queensland University - earthquake studies
Earthquake Information- Pacific Northwest	Big trouble in Earthquake Country
10 largest earthquakes since 1900	University of Texas - seismology
Japan/Kobe earthquake images	Earthquakes
The Nevada Seismological Laboratory	Royal Observatory of Belgium - Seismology
EarthWaves - our changing planet	FEMA : Fact Sheet Earthquakes
Southern California Earthquake Data Centre	Understanding earthquakes
Earthquake Hazards Program - Northern California	Earthquake basics
World wide earthquake locator

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El Nino

El Nino Online guide	El Nino theme page
El Nino Rules!	El Nino Special Report
El Nino - Of droughts and flooding rains	USA Today - El Nino
El Nino Southern Oscillation Index

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Famine

War and Famine in Sudan	CNN Famine in Sudan
Ukraine Famine 1932-1933

Floods

India Floods July 2001	Nova Online - Flood!
Yahoo! Floods	FEMA: Floods and flash floods
How rain, snowmelt spawn floods

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Nuclear

Chernobyl - the accident and progress since 1986	Chernobyl - a nuclear disaster
Three Mile Island 2 Accident	Inside Three Mile Island
Meltdown at Three Mile Island	Three Mile Island (Yahoo!)
WebMagics WebGuide Disasters.com Nuclear

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Oil Spills

Exxon Valdez Restoration Site	Office of Spill Prevention and response
Yahoo!-Oil Spills	Australian oil spill resources
Oil Spills

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Tsunami

Welcome to Tsunami!	USC Tsunami Research Group
Waves of death - PNG tsunami	USA Today weather - PNG Tsunami
USA Today weather - Tsunami	FEMA: Tsunami Fact Sheet
The WWW Tsunami Information Resource

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Volcanoes

MTU Volcanoes Page	Mount St Helens
Volcano World	Yahoo!-Volcanoes
The Electronic Volcano	Volcanoes Online
Volcanoes	Interesting facts on volcanoes
Fire and mud - Mount Pinatubo	How volcanoes work

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Blizzards

Blizzards in Tibet	White Death - Blizzard of 77
Blizzard of 96	Are there storms in Antarctica?

Cyclones

Surviving Cyclones	Tropical Cyclones in Australia
Cyclones	Cyclone Tracy, 1974
FAQ: Hurricanes, Typhoons and Tropical

Hurricanes

Hurricane and natural disaster brochures	Hurricane Storm Science
How hurricanes create killer surge	Hyper Hurricanes
US National Hurricane Center	America's weather - Hurricane page
More about hurricanes	Visualization of Remote Sensing Data
Hurricane dynamics

Storms

National Severe Storms Laboratory	What watches, warnings mean - USA Today
Tropical storms worldwide	Tropical Storm Watch

Tornadoes

Tornado Project On-line	USA Today - latest tornado news
A close-up view of tornadoes	More about tornadoes
Tornado information index	Southeast tornado outbreak index
Southeast Tornado Alley	Florida twisters February 1998
Tornado survivors seek renewal on Easter	April the deadliest month for tornadoes
Southeast tornadoes are nation's deadliest	Storm Prediction Center Tornado Statistics
Storm reports from south-east tornadoes	Storms left nowhere to hide

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