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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

Assignments 

Activity Links

Disaster Planning Simulation 

LANDSAT Images

World Climate

Virtual River

Internet Research

Katrina: oral histories

Plate Tectonics 

This Dynamic Earth (from the USGS)

Mountain Marker, Earth Shaker

Earthquakes 

 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

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 

Make a vaccine 

Identifying bacteria

Pandemic Simulation

 Impacts

Impact Simulation 

Tornadoes

NOAA

Current Event Links

http://news.google.com

http://www.cnn.com/

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

Latest Disasters from ReliefWeb

 

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