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Internet Resources for Disaster Studies
Starting Points | Data and Statistics | Delaware Resources | National Agencies and Organizations | Overseas and International Resources | Research Centers
Starting Points
- CBS News Disaster Links
Contains hundreds of web sites on disasters. - Crisis, Disaster, and Emergency Management: Web Sites for Researchers
Annotated list of resources for crisis and emergency management, homeland security, terrorism, business continuity and recovery plans, and risk assessment and management. - Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management
Information resources for crisis and emergency management and includes information on contingency planning, risk management, and international disasters. - Disaster and Emergency Management on the Internet
A growing list of Internet resources on disaster and emergency planning, and operations. - Disaster Central
Provides links to recent research reports on emergency management, terrorism, homeland security, policy analysis, and risk management. This site is an excellent source for full text documents. - Disaster! Finder
A directory of resources maintained by the NASA Solid Earth and Natural Hazards Program. - Disaster Internet Sites
An excellent annotated index of disaster Web sites. The "All Hazards" section includes links to several other sites that provide helpful indices. - Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Web site contains thousands of pages of hazards/disaster information - text, graphics, photos, tables, maps - about the agency itself and its ongoing programs; current disaster situations; and disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation generally. The home page provides immediate access to news about recent and ongoing disasters, general news about policy and program developments, and much background information about both the agency and natural disasters. Among its numerous documents and services, the site provides "Fact Sheets" - including preparedness tips - concerning all kinds of hazards. There are also hundreds of useful documents available from the FEMA library. - HazLit (Hazard Literature Database)
The library of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Bouder houses an extensive collection of social science literature focusing on how society prepares for, responds to, recovers from, and mitigates natural disasters. This nonlending library is an important resource for all persons involved in disaster management. The collection includes approximately 17,000 items, approximately one-third of which are fully annotated in this database. The HazLit Database is an on-line index that provides bibliographic access only to that collection. Hazlit is not a full-text database, and the Hazards Center Library does not loan its holdings to the general public. - Natural Hazards Center
The Natural Hazards Center, located at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is a national and international clearinghouse for information on natural hazards and human adjustments to hazards and disasters. The center's prime goal is to increase communication among hazard/disaster researchers and those individuals, agencies, and organizations that are actively working to reduce disaster damage and suffering. The Natural Hazards Center web site has a variety of resources available including online periodicals, working papers, organizations, and wide variety of selected Internet sites. - Natural Hazards Data Resources Directory
The Directory includes data resources organized by natural hazard topic and lists of hazard-related organizations. - The Savage Earth
In this Web companion piece, original articles by journalists Daniel Pendick and Kathy Svitil explain the science behind volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis, and feature original animations that illustrate the action of these natural phenomena. You can also Ask the Experts your questions, and explore other sites on the Web.
Jump to top of page.Data and Statistics
- Data on Disasters
An excellent list of the more useful and credible sources of disaster data on the Internet. This list focuses on sources of data on the human consequences of disasters, not on catalogs of physical events. Maintained by the Natural Hazards Center. - Historical Tornado Data Archive
Historical tornado data from 1950-1995. The Archive was compiled by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the 1970s and is maintained by the Storm Prediction Center. - National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) maintains information about extreme weather and climate events, including lists of billion dollar weather disasters in the U.S., 1980-2001. The NCDC provides also storm and climatological data. - Natural Hazards Databases
Long-term data and photographs from natural hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. Maintained by the National Geophysical Data Center.
Delaware Resources
- Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control(DNREC)
This agency addresses statewide ecological, environmental, recreational and conservation issues. - Delaware Department of Public Safety
This agency oversees many divisions including the Delaware Emergency Management Agency, Delaware State Police, and the Office of Highway Safety. - Delaware Division of Air & Waste Management
This agency oversees the handling, transfer, storage, disposal, and management of solid waste and hazardous materials through regulations, monitoring, inspections, emergency response, and environmental regulation enforcement. The Division also regulates emissions of air contaminants through construction and operating permits for industrial facilities and emission testing requirements for vehicles. The Division is also responsible for managing underground storage tank sites and hazardous waste sites throughout Delaware. - Delaware Division of Public Health
This is the administrative office for the Division of Public Health, Delaware Health and Social Services. It promotes healthy life styles, prevents disease, disability and premature death, protects human health from environmental hazards, and provides access to health care for vulnerable populations in need. This site includes the Health Alert Network, a site designed to provide health professionals with information on how to prepare and respond to bioterrorism incidents. - Delaware Emergency Management Agency (DEMA)
This agency is responsible for the coordination of comprehensive emergency preparedness, training, response, recovery and mitigation services in order to save lives, protect Delaware's economic base and reduce the impact of emergencies. - Delaware Firefighter Online
This web site provides an online community for members of the Delaware Fire Service to meet, collaborate, and share ideas for the common goal of improving service to the State of Delaware and its residents. - Delaware State Fire Marshal
The State Fire Marshals Office provides the lead role in fire and arson investigations, statewide. The agency is charged with assisting fire departments, inspections and code enforcement in health care facilities, educational occupancies, public assembly, public accommodations, flammable and combustible liquids, flammable gases, explosives and fire works. - Delaware State Emergency Response Commission (SERC)
The primary focus of the SERC is to enhance state and local emergency response and preparedness capabilities through better coordination and planning. - Other Local Government Sites
National Agencies and Organizations
- American Red Cross: Disaster Services
The American Red Cross provides extensive information on disaster mitigation, management, and recovery. In particular, a large collection of individual and community disaster preparedness, response, and recovery information is available from this site. - Federal Emergency Management Agency
Excellent collection of information on U.S. disasters. This site includes information on local and state emergency preparedness, federal responses to a disaster, the nation's fire service, national flood and crime insurance programs, emergency managers training, and disaster assistance for states, communities, businesses and individuals. - Center for Integration of Natural Disaster Information (CINDI)
The U.S. Department of the Interior has devoted one portion of its Web site entirely to natural hazards, with sections on wildfires, volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, landslides, wildlife diseases, geogmagnetism, storms and tsunamis, and other hazards. For each topic, the site offers selected links - primarily to USGS Web pages - as well as a link to a "Fact Sheet" on the given subject. - National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)
This agency maintains many tools and assets for observing and analyzing hazards; conducts several programs for detecting, monitoring, responding to, and mitigating hazards; and offers numerous resources to educate the general public about these risks. In addition, NESDIS manages extensive databases concerning historical and current disaster events. - U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
The USGS maintains many Web sites with much useful information on geologic hazards, including a Hazards Theme Page with sections on earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes, floods, and coastal storms; as well as maps showing the distribution of hazards. - Other Disaster Related Agencies and
Organizations
Compiled by the Natural Hazards Center, a comprehensive list of domestic organizations, state and territorial agencies, and U.S. Government Agencies.
Oversees and International Resources
- Emergency Preparedness Information Exchange (EPIX)
One of the original Internet disaster sites and remains one of the most comprehensive. Established by the Centre for Public Policy Research on Science and Technology, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, EPIX contains extensive information about both current situations and disaster management generally. - Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is the United Nations agency responsible for U.N. response to disasters and complex emergencies. It includes information about the office, the latest emergency reports, emergency information by country/region, sections on coordination and emergency response, disaster reduction, and a list of OCHA publications. - ReliefWeb
This site, maintained by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, is intended to aid national agencies and nongovernmental organizations involved in emergency and disaster relief worldwide. The site addresses prevention, preparedness, and response, and includes country and emergency profiles, a bulletin section with daily updates, a "What's New" feature that directs the reader to recently added information, and various maps of countries and regions where emergency operations are currently underway. - Other Overseas and International Disaster Related Agencies and Organizations
Compiled by the Natural Hazards Center, an exhaustive list of overseas and international disaster related agencies and organizations.
Research Centers
- Benfield Greig Hazard Research Centre, University College London
- Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI), University of Memphis
- Center for Disaster Research & Education, Millersville University
- Center for Hazards Research, California State University - Chico
- Center for Public Health and Disaster Relief, University of California - Los Angeles
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
- Center for Technology, Environment, and Development (CENTED), Clark University
- Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HRRC), Texas A&M University
- Hazards Research Laboratory (HRL), University of South Carolina
- International Hurricane Center, Florida International University
- Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management, George Washington University
- Mid-America Earthquake Center (MAE), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER), State University of New York at Buffalo
- National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE), University of California - Berkeley
- Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center (NHRAIC), University of Colorado - Boulder
- Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER), University of California - Berkeley
- Southern California Earthquake Center
- Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, University of Pennsylvania
- Other Research Centers and Institutes
A comprehensive a list of centers and institutes, primarily in academia, that study hazards and disasters. Included is contact information for each and a brief description if available.
