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Natural Disasters

"We rely on technology and we end up thinking as human  beings that we're totally safe, and we're not, ... The bottom line is we have a very unsafe planet." 
- Dennis S. Miletti
Course Outline
Disaster Summary 
Household Preparedness
Disaster Planning Simulation 
Internet Research

Climate Change 
World Climate
How to talk to climate change sceptic

Hurricanes 
Katrina: oral histories
National Hurricane Center
Guide to Hurricanes 

Tornadoes
NOAA 
Nature's Fury

Earthquakes 
This Dynamic Earth (from the USGS)
Mountain Marker, Earth Shaker

Why do earthquakes happen?

Virtual Earthquake

Compare Maps

Historical Worldwide Earthquakes

Build Your Bridge

Buildings and Earthquakes

Tsunami

Anatomy of a Tsunami

Once and Future Tsunami

Surviving a Tsunami

How Shifting Plates Caused Earthquake & Tsunami in Japan

Volcanoes

Supervolcanoes

Make a virtual volcano

label a volcano

Locate famous volcanoes

Volcano simulation
 

Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, Scotland. Photo by Ms. Miller 

 

Disease

Disease Detectives 

History of Quarantine 

Make a vaccine 

Identifying bacteria

Pandemic Simulation

AIDS Survey

1918 Flu

Impacts

Impact Simulation

LANDSAT Images


Current Event Links

http://news.google.com

http://www.cnn.com/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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