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Disasters


 General 

 
Emergency Management Australia - Disasters database

The living almanac of disasters 

Natural Hazards Research Centre   The Armenian Genocide  
Hazards and risks Virtual Library by topic   Phenomena backgrounders  
Titanic news stories 1912   World Disasters News Map
Natural Hazards Main Page  Man made disasters 
United Nations ReliefWeb  MedlinePlus Coping with Disasters
   
Air 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   
   
Bushfires  

Bushfire weather

Country Fire Authority 

Black Friday 1939

How Wildfires Work(Howstuffworks)

Firebreak Australia 

   
Chemical accidents   
Bhopal.Net  Bhopal Legacy 
Cyanide spill  Welcome to Bhopal.org 
   
Drought  
Living with drought   
Drought disasters  ABS Drought in Australia 
Drought in Australia  Drought Statement 31st July 2001 
Drought(Heinemann)  Melbourne Water - Living with Drought
   

El Nino

 

El Nino Rules! 

El Nino Online guide 

El Nino - Of droughts and flooding rains 

USA Today - El Nino 

El Nino Southern Oscillation Index 

El Nino theme page 

Famine
Ukraine Famine 1932-1933  War and Famine in Sudan 
CNN Famine in Sudan 
   
Floods  
Yahoo! Floods  Nova Online - Flood! 
How rain, snowmelt spawn floods   
   
Landslides  
Where do landslides occur? Aust Govt Emergency Management- Landslides
Avalanches and Landslides (Trinity College) Geologic Hazards--Landslides
International  Landslide Research Group Kelso Landslide
Landslide Distribution Map    
Landslides -(Disaster Management Group) .Thredbo landslide - Coroner's report.
Landslides Hazards and debris flows Planning for Landslides
Thredbo, NSW Landslide LawLink NSW - Thredbo landslide
   
Nuclear  

Chernobyl - the accident&progress since 1986 

Chernobyl - a nuclear disaster 

Three Mile Island 2 Accident 

 Chernobyl 20 years on
Meltdown at Three Mile Island    
   
Oil Spills  

Oil Program, US EPA

Office of Spill Prevention and response 

Yahoo!-Oil Spills 

Australian oil spill resources 
Oil Spills   
   
Tsunami  

Welcome to Tsunami! 

USC Tsunami Research Group 

Waves of death - PNG tsunami 

2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

USA Today weather - Tsunami 

 Tsunami
The WWW Tsunami Information Resource   Tsunami Warning
Tsunami Savage Earth Waves of Destruction
   
Volcanoes  

MTU Volcanoes Page 

How volcanoes work 

Volcano World 

Yahoo!-Volcanoes 

The Electronic Volcano 

Fire and mud - Mount Pinatubo 

Volcanoes 

Italy's Volcanoes
   
Blizzards  
White Death - Blizzard of 77   
   
Space disasters  
A brief history of space accidents Challenger Accident 
Space Shuttle Missions Challenger Accident List of space disasters Information
Challenger accident (Google directory) Space Disasters
Space Exploration Disasters and Tragedies  
   
Storms  
National Severe Storms Laboratory  What watches, warnings mean - USA Today 
Tropical storms worldwide   
   
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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Last revised 6th August  2007
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