Mr. Bertelsen- Eng.10 / Mrs. Schar- Library
Disaster Research

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Select a natural or man-made disaster to research. Write a paragraph answering these questions:

1.)    What effects has this disaster had on the environment and communities it occurred in?
2.)    Could this disaster have been prevented? How?
3.)    Could the severity of this disaster been lessened? How?
4.)    Include a bibliography of the sources you used for your research.

Here are a few disaster websites:

Natural disasters:

Avalanches:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/avalanche/

Earthquakes:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/earthquakes/index.html
http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/ics/sb_eqs/
http://www.kron.com/specials/89quake/

Fires:
http://montanafires.com/
http://www.redcross.org/disaster/safety/wildfire.html
Great Chicago Fire:
http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/intro/gcf-index.html

Floods:
http://ericir.syr.edu/Projects/Newton/12/Lessons/floods.html
http://www.fema.gov/library/floodf.htm 

Hurricanes:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/floyd990917.html                  

Landslides:
http://landslides.usgs.gov/html_files/nlicsun.shtml

Tsunami:
http://www.ccalmr.ogi.edu/STH/
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/tsu.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/tsunami/index.html

Volcanoes:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/volcanoes/index.html
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/msh.html
ftp://mojave.wr.usgs.gov/pub/spurr/Spurr.html
http://idt.net/~dobran/
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/msh.html

Mt. St. Helens:
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/earthshots/slow/MtStHelens/MtStHelens

Man-made disasters:

Airships/Airlines:
Hindenburg:
http://www.hindenburg.com/

Alaska Airlines Flight 261:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/alaskacrash000131.html

Valuejet 592:  http://search.britannica.com/frm_redir.jsp?query=airline+crashes&redir=http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/transportation/july-dec97/valujet_8-19.html

Bombings:
http://usatoday.com/olympics/olyfs239.htm

Atlanta Olympics:
http://usatoday.com/olympics/olybix.htm

Munich Olympic Massacre:
http://www.umi.com/hp/Support/K12/GreatEvents/Munich.html

Oklahoma City:
http://www.kwtv.com/news/bombing/bombingpage.htm

Challenger Space Explosion:
http://www.stlcop.edu/~johnpais/challenger/paula.html

Chernobyl:
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~meshkati/chernobyl.html
http://www.uilondon.org/chernidx.htm

Columbine High School  Shootings:
http://info.jefferson.lib.co.us/columbinecd/START.htm  

Oil Spills:
Exxon Valdez:
http://www.oilspill.state.ak.us/

Persian Gulf, 1991:
http://www.acnatsci.org/erd/ea/marine_oil.html
http://h2o.seagrant.wisc.edu/communications/earthwatch/archive/1991/earthwatch110111.html

Submarine: 

Russian Kursk:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/08/24/russia.submarine.02/

General Disaster sites:

The American Red Cross Disaster Services: http://www.redcross.org/disaster/safety/

The Disaster Center:  http://www.disastercenter.com/

Disaster News Network:  http://www.disasternews.net/

Federal Emergency Management Agency: http://www.fema.gov/