UBC EOSC 114 Natural Disasters

EOSC 114 - Natural Disasters

DisasterWatch - (quicklook realtime info)

Overview of All Current Disasters: USGS Hazards page , NASA Earth Observatory or ReliefWeb .
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Volcanoes: Daily Activity (VolcanoLive) & Weekly Volcanic Activity Report (Smithsonian Inst & USGS), Archive of Volcano Photos , worldwide satellite coverage of volcanoes by NASA and DisasterCenter , world-wide volcano news & images ,
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Earthquakes: Colour World Map (IRIS), Recent BC Quake Map (NRC),
Near Real-time Earthquake List (USGS), Earthquake aftermath photos (WorldNewsNet).
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Landslides: Recent Landslides (USGS), and Advisories .
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Flood: Worldwide (Earth Observatory), Flood Aftermath Photos (WorldNewsNet),
US Watch & Warning Boxes (NWS) , Canadian Weather Warnings (EC)
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Hurricanes: Active Tropical Storms (US Navy), Warnings ( Can.Hur.Ctr., US NHC, JTWC,), Tropical cyclones (SSEC , Australian Bureau of Meteor ), Worldwide cyclone tracks (U.Hawaii ), Atlantic tracks with excellent Sea Surface Temperatures (JHU). Hurricane aftermath photos (WorldNewsNet) and outlooks (NOAA) .
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Thunderstorms & Tornadoes: Worldwide (Earth Observatory).
US Watches & Warnings (NWS), Canadian Weather Watches & Warnings (EC).
US Radar (zoomable, NWS), US Radar Summary (zoomable, Intellicast).
Canadian radar west & national (MSC).
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Tsunami: Realtime tsunami warnings (WestCoast & Alaska and Worldwide), significant wave height forecasts (MPC)
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Meteor Impact: Nice summary , Asteroid Close-approach Forecasts (JPL), Earth Impact Possibilities, Complete List of NEOs (Neodys).

For coverage and images of some of the disasters:

Online news agencies. BBC , CNN , WNN , Google News, Headlines in Yahoo News (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/ and http://news.yahoo.com/) link to stories and images by Reuters, Associated Press and other agencies.
Comprehensive lists of worldwide satellite images (Australia Severe Weather), and satellite pictures of Natural Disasters ( NASA Earth Observatory ).
Do internet searches using Yahoo or Google.