Natural Disasters

FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency

• Learn About the types of disasters and what to do
• Ready.gov -- Prepare. Plan. Stay Informed
• FEMA Ready kids
• make a plan
• Stay informed

General

• Earth Observatory- Natural Hazards NASA satellite imagery of natural hazards around the world - smoke, fires, floods, storms and volcanoes
• Forces of Nature - ThinkQuest - great introduction with graphics and sound - explanations, quizzes on, and pictures of various disasters: * avalanches * droughts * earthquakes * flooding * hurricanes * landslides * severe storms * tornadoes * tsunamis * volcanoes
• National Geographic Forces of Nature - companion to movie with preview - info on hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, and tornadoes - facts, famous forces, glossary
• National Weather Service - only present information and images on recent storms
• Natural Disasters - Without Warning - ThinkQuest by 6th grade class: volcanoes, twisters, earthquakes - games and quizzes
• Savage Earth -PBS (1998) pictures, explanations, animations on volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis

Avalanches

• NOVA online - Avalanche - (1997) NOVA companion with RealVideo clips plus teacher guide

Earthquakes

• Earthforce - Franklin Institute - "pushing and pulling int he core, crust, or water of the Earth that causes motion like eruptions, quakes or floods" - earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, tsumani and avalanche
• Earthquake ABC - words associated with earthquakes 1) child's view 2)parent's view
• Earthquake Shake - Tech Museum of Innovation - describes plate tectonics, faults, seismograms, and waves - pictures and animations
• Life along the Faultline - Exploratorium in San Francisco - why earth shakes and building for the big one

Landslides

• Hazards: Landslides and Mudflow - Federal Emergency Management Agency - basic information (http://www.fema.gov/hazards/landslides/landsli.shtm)
• What is a Mudslide - answers questions on causes, likely to strike?, how recognize?
  (http://www.disasterrelief.org/disasters/971008landslide/ )

Tsunamis

• FEMA for Kids: Tsunami - for younger children, photos, Water, wind and earth game
• Magazine coverage on tsunami
  • Discover
  • National Geographic - links to articles on
  • Science Daily
• Tsunami Visualizations - videos, visualizations, animations - Indian Ocean Tsunami, other historical tsunamis, hypothetical tsunami visualizations
• Tsunami and earthquakes at the USGS - start with The Basics and then check out numerous visualizations and animations
• Waves of Destruction- Tsunamis - PBS Savage Earth with video on 12/2004 tsunami plus animation

Volcanoes

• NOVA: deadly shadow of Vesuvius
• NOVA: Volcano's deadly warning
• Volcano World - everything you'd want to know
• Volcanoes of the United States - online version of book from USGS

Water and Floods

• American Experience: fatal flood - PBS
• American Experience: the hurricane of '38 - PBS
• InFocus: Floods! - PBS
• NOVA Online - Flood!

Wind: Hurricanes - Hurricane Digital Memory Bank - Katrina, Wilma, Rita

• Hurricane: storm science - basic site from Miami Museum of Science
• Flying in the eye of a hurricane - National Geographic
• Hurricane movie catalog - NASA links to video clips of different hurricanes
• Hurricane names - what names have been used, what will be used

Wind: Tornadoes

• Tornado images - NOAA
• Eye in the sky: tornadoes - National Geographic
• Tornadoes - going around in circles - Whyfiles.org - story of a tornado, how get power, with interactive twister and how to create twister in a bottle
• Wind storms, gust fronts and outflow - destructive power of windstorms - ChaseDay.com

Weather

• Hail storms - ChaseDay.com
• Owlie Skywarn - NOAA - mascot tells about hazards of sever weather

Fire

• Eye in the sky: wildfires - National Geographic
• NOVA: fire wars - companion web site to Fire Wars (2003)
• Smokey Bear's official home pae
• Sparky the Fire Dog