Links for BAESI Geological Hazards Workshop

September 17, 2005

General

Red Cross Master's of Disaster Curriculum
http://www.redcross.org/disaster/masters/naturalhazards/start.html

Earthweek - current Earth events
http://www.earthweek.com/Week.html

NaturalHazards.org
http://www.naturalhazards.org/investigate/index.html

USGS Exploring Earth Hazards
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/explorer/topic_hazards.htm

NASA's Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/index.html

National Geophysical Data Center
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/hazards.shtml

ational Geographic: "Forces of Nature"
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/

FEMA Kid's Zone
http://www.fema.gov/kids/dizarea.htm

Hazards Maps

Association of Bay Area Governments  (ABAG)
http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/eqmaps.html

ESRI
http://www.esri.com/hazards/makemap.html

FEMA's Multihazard Mapping Initiative
http://www.hazardmaps.gov/atlas.php

Hurricanes

National Geographic's Forces of Nature
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/forcesofnature/interactive/index.html?section=h

How Stuff Works: Hurricanes
http://science.howstuffworks.com/hurricane.ht

NASA's Hurricane Resource Page
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/hurricane_2005.html

Hurricane Visualizations
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualization/collections/hurricanes.html

National Public Radio: Hurricane Risk in New Orleans
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1150366

Scientific American article: Drowning New Orleans
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00060286-CB58-1315-8B5883414B7F0000

Earthquakes

Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) - Very cool site that includes maps of predicted damage (using Mercalli intensity scale) due 
to various Bay Area EQs in various parts of the Bay Area.
http://www.abag.ca.gov/bayarea/eqmaps/pickcity.html

Make a Quake
http://dsc.discovery.com/anthology/unsolvedhistory/earthquake/interactive/interactive.html

Volcanoes

VolcanoWorld
http://www.volcanoworld.org/

USGS Volcanoes Lessons
http://interactive2.usgs.gov/learningweb/teachers/volcanoes_lesson1.htm

Plate Tectonics

This Dynamic Earth - booklet
http://pubs.usgs.gov/publications/text/dynamic.html

This Dynamic Earth (Map)
http://pubs.usgs.gov/pdf/planet.html

Savage Earth from PBS: animations of faults, seismic waves, plate boundaries,
volcanic eruptions and more.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/