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General:
Global
Emergency Management Systems:
The Global Emergency Management
System is an online, searchable database containing links to Websites in a
variety of categories that are related in some way to emergency management. In
most cases there is also a brief description of what the Website offers.
Go to
http://www.app1.fema.gov/gems/
Earthquake:
Database related to earthquake related experiences and
studies:
Asian
Disaster Reduction Center:
The Asian Disaster Reduction Center
has been established in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, to facilitate exchange of
disaster reduction experts from each country and concerned bodies, accumulate
and provide disaster reduction information, and carry out research into
multinational disaster reduction cooperation as the focus of this initiative.
Go
to: http://www.adrc.or.jp/hanshin/database/government.asp?Frame=
National
Information Center of Earthquake Engineering- IIT Kanpur:
National
Information Center of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) at the Indian Institute of
Technology Kanpur provides information related to earthquake engineering. The
center has a collection of books related to Earthquake Engineering and
seismology:
Go to http://nicee.org/NICEE/acquisitions.html as
also Information Resources on Indian standards related to earthquake
engineering:
Go to http://nicee.org/NICEE/suggested_readings.htm
Info
Change - Disasters: - A ICICI Communities & Info Change initiative
India
is the worst-affected theatre of disaster in the South Asian region. Drought,
floods, earthquakes and cyclones devastate the country with grim regularity. Ten
thousand were killed in the Orissa supercyclone of 1999, and 16,000 died in the
earthquake that hit Kutch in January 2001. Are these natural disasters caused by
nature's fury?
Go to
http://www.infochangeindia.org/DisastersIh.jsp?section_id=
12&detailurl=Disasters
Manage
Disasters: An initiative providing vital disasters related information for
India:
This
site provides:
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A background to natural disasters and disaster management in India
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Information,
right down to the district level, on the vulnerability and disaster-preparedness
of the ten most disaster-prone states in India
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Checklists
for emergency situations
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Detailed
case studies from hotspots such as Kutch.
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This
site is a collaborative initiative of InfoChange and NCA.
Go to
http://managedisasters.org/
CRID
Disaster Database:
CRID is the Spanish acronym for the Regional
Disaster Information Ctr., a group of 6 organizations combined to ensure the
compilation & dissemination of disaster-related information in Latin America
& the Caribbean.
Go to http://www.crid.or.cr/crid/bodyen.asp
EEA--
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (NISEE):
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts covers the world
literature in earthquake engineering since 1971. Contents include selected
technical reports, conference papers, monographs, and journal articles. Most
materials are available for loan from Nisee.
Go
to
http://nisee.berkeley.edu/eea.html
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QUAKELINE®--MCEER
database:
QUAKELINE® is a bibliographic database produced by
the MCEER Information Service since 1987. It covers earthquakes, earthquake
engineering, natural hazard mitigation, and related topics, and includes records
for journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, maps, and
videotapes. Most materials are available for loan or photocopy from the MCEER
Information Service.
Go to
http://mceer.buffalo.edu/utilities/quakeline.asp
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Hazards
Literature Database (HazLit):
HazLit is the online library database of the Natural
Hazards Research and Applications Information Center at the University of
Colorado at Boulder. The library of the Natural Hazards Center houses an
extensive collection of social science literature focusing on how society
prepares for, responds to, recovers from, and mitigates natural disasters. This
non lending library is an important resource for all persons involved in
disaster management. The collection includes approximately 17,000 items,
approximately one-third of which are fully annotated in this database. The
HazLit Database is an on-line index that provides bibliographic access only to
that collection. Hazlit is not a full-text database, and the Hazards Center
Library does not loan its holdings to the general public.
Go to http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/litbase/litindex.htm
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ASCE's
Civil Engineering Database:
ASCE publications. The database covers ASCE
documents published since 1974. It provides access to all the journals,
conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters.
Go to http://www.pubs.asce.org/chrhome2.html
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Earthquake
Spectra Abstract Search:
The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute is a
national, nonprofit, technical society of engineers, geoscientists, architects,
planners, public officials, and social scientists. EERI members include
researchers, practicing professionals, educators, government officials, and
building code regulators. EERI established Earthquake Spectra to improve the
practice of earthquake hazards mitigation, preparedness, and recovery. It is
intended to serve the informational needs of the diverse professions engaged in
earthquake hazards reduction--civil, geotechnical, mechanical and structural
engineers, geologists, seismologists, architects, city planners, public
officials, social scientists, and researchers.
Go to http://www.eeri.org/Publications/AbstractSearch.html
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Earthquake
Intensity Database Search 1638-1985 (NGDC):
The Earthquake Intensity Database is a collection of
damage and felt reports for over 23,000 U.S. earthquakes from 1638 to 1985. It
contains information regarding epicentral coordinates, magnitudes, focal depths,
names and coordinates of reporting cities (or localities), reported intensities,
and the distance from city (or locality) to epicenter.
Go to http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/int_srch.shtml
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Significant
Earthquake Database (NGDC):
The Significant Earthquake Database is a global
digital database containing information on more than 5,000 destructive
earthquakes from 2150 B.C. to the present. The database provides the following
information for each event: time, latitude and longitude, depth,
magnitude/intensity, deaths, damage, class, references and geographic location.
Go to http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/sig_srch.shtml
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PEER
Strong Motion Database:
The PEER Strong Motion Database contains over 1000
records from 140 earthquakes from tectonically active regions. The database is
processed by using publicly available data from Federal, State, and private
providers of strong motion data.
Go to http://peer.berkeley.edu/smcat/index.html
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Cyclone:
India
- Cyclones Fact Sheet:
U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for Humanitarian Response (BHR):
On October 18 and 19, a severe cyclone in the Bay of Bengal hit the eastern
coast of India, causing floods and wind damage in Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, and
West Bengal states. A second, larger cyclone (the worst storm in almost 30
years) struck India's eastern coastline on October 29, further impacting Orissa
and West Bengal states.
Goto
http://www.usaid.gov/hum_response/ofda/indiacyclone_fs1_fy00.html
Down
to Earth: Cyclones in India:
The
term cyclone includes all tropical storms. They start as swirls of cloud and
rain that eventually intensify into storms. The Indian sub-continent is the
worst affected part in the world. Although India accounts for only six per cent
of the cyclones worldwide, it records the maximum damage.
Go to http://www.cseindia.org/html/dte/dte20010630/dte_stati.htm
Tropical
Cyclone Watch:
Publications
and references to tropical cyclone watch, data and observations, plus online
resources to tracking the cyclone.
Go to http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/Architext/
ATNDRDRESsearch.cgi?search=concept&search=tropical+cyclones
Tropical
Storm Watch:
This
is a seasonal page, and has been unlinked from major navigational pages. It is
maintained here for archival purposes only. No updates will occur to this page,
in particular but reference could be taken from this page to get information
about the climatic condition in tropical regions.
Go to http://www.fema.gov/fema/trop.htm
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Floods:
Central
Water Commission, Government of India:
Central
Water Commission is a premier Technical Organization in the country in the field
of Water Resources since 1945 and is presently functioning as an attached office
of the Ministry of Water Resources. The Commission is charged with the general
responsibilities of initiating, coordinating and furthering in consultation of
the State Governments concerned, schemes for control, conservation and
utilization of water resources throughout the country, for purpose of Flood
Control, Irrigation, Navigation, Drinking Water Supply and Water Power
Development. It also undertakes the investigations, construction and execution
of any such schemes as required.
Go to http://www.nic.in/cwc/
International
Commission for Irrigation and Drainage ICID, New Delhi:
LOGID is a database which has been launched by the working group "Decision
system for earth and water management " from ICID
(India) and is freely distributed on a disk allowing to browse existing
software and to add new products by ICID National Committees. LOGID is freely
distributed and has been provided by the ICID for free download from the
IRRISOFT a FTP Server.
Go to http://www.wiz.uni-kassel.de/kww/irrisoft/irrisoft_i.html#index
Flood
Hazard Database:
RMSI has executed projects to provide high
resolution seismic and hurricane hazard-related databases for regions of risk
round the world. For seismic hazard risk, the data captured includes
geo-technical features, slope and elevation, water table level data, location of
seismic sources and locations of man made facilities. For hurricane hazard the
data captured includes: distance to coast line, slope and elevation, terrain
features and man made features that may alter the terrain natural roughness.
Go
to http://www.rmsinet.com/projectgeospatial.htm
Hindu
Kush-Himalayan Flow Regimes from International Experimental and
Network Data (HKH-FRIEND):
The HKH-FRIEND project is one of the
seven regional groups under the FRIEND project (Project 1.1: Application of
methods of hydrological analysis using regional data sets) of the International
Hydrological Programme (IHP) of UNESCO which was launched in March 1996. Its aim
is to develop a better understanding of the hydrological variability and
similarity across different regions through the mutual exchange of data,
knowledge and techniques.
Go to
http://www.icimod.org.sg/focus/water/HKH-FRIEND%20Nutshell.html
Controlling
Flood through best management practices:
At the present time 130 million
people of Bangladesh are facing a series of environmental problems. The people
are repeatedly confronted by natural and human-made catastrophes such as
flooding, surface and groundwater pollution, droughts, cyclones, riverbank
erosion, air pollution, wetland loss, tornadoes, and coastal erosion. While some
of these environmental degradations and calamities are not directly related to
human activities and land-use practices (such as tornadoes, and cyclones),
others are related to human interactions with the nature.
Go to http://www.bytesforall.org/8th/control_flood.htm
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Drought:
Drought
Mitigation Activities:
Paper presented at AMS Conference, 12th International Conference on Interactive
Information and Processing System (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and
Hydrology, Atlanta, Georgia (U.S.A.) January 28-February 2, 1996.
Go to http://hydrology.nws.noaa.gov/hrl/papers/amsbah.htm
India
Media Center: Drought News Resource:
Drought
News Resource: Indymedia is a
collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists
offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage of major protests.
Go to http://india.indymedia.org/
A
case study of Drought recovery:
A
village in Madhya Pradesh lifts itself from drought with local action and grit.
Go to http://www.goodnewsindia.com/Pages/content/conservation/
balodaLakha.html
In
pictures: India's drought
Fifty
million Indians across four states have been affected by drought, said to be the
worst in 100 years. A pictures profile by BBC.
Go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/
newsid_728000/728124.stm
States
affected by droughts in India:
Map
of drought affected areas in India.
Go to
http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/mapinnews/03052000.htm
Current Drought-Related Impacts and
Humanitarian
Issues:
USDA's
Drought Information Page:
Provides comprehensive information on USDA's
drought assistance programs and other related resources. All Secretarial
Disaster Designations for drought are included here in map form.
Go to http://drought.fsa.usda.gov/
The
Disaster Center:
The center maintains a Drought Mitigation
Information, Agricultural and Water News section that includes links to all
relevant disaster information for each state.
Go to http://www.disastercenter.com/drought.htm
The
National Weather Service's:
Provides weather maps and current weather
information data. Each map provides information on significant weather events
across the United States for the given year. This information includes the type
and date of event, states impacted, number of deaths, and monetary damage.
Go to
http://205.156.54.206/om/sigwx.shtml
NOAA-OGP's
Rapid Response Project:
RANET is an effort of several partners to make
climate and weather related information more accessible throughout the world. It
uses a variety of technologies, such as digital satellite radio, as well as
training to accomplish its goal. The CIP is a core participant in this activity.
>From the CIP you can learn more about RANET. View its broadcasts as mirrored
online, and participate in online discussions about the project.
Go to http://www.cip.ogp.noaa.gov/
Disaster
Relief:
Provides worldwide disaster aid and up-to-date
information. Weather Simulators Prepare Forecasters for the Real Thing: Research
has long shown that big storms — from blizzards to tornadoes — are less
deadly if meteorologists predict them and alert the public. To ensure that
weather forecasters around the country become more familiar with the warning
signs of major weather events, the National Weather Service is beginning to use
a high-tech storm simulator as a training tool
Go to http://www.disasterrelief.org/
WAOB
Outlook Reports:
Information and forecasts of world supply-use
balances of grains and products. Global 2001/02 production is up slightly from
last month as increases for Russia, Ukraine, and Mexico more than offset
reductions for Argentina and Egypt. Global imports are up slightly due to small
increases for a number of countries. Projected exports are increased for Russia,
Turkey, and China but reduced for Kazakstan.
Go to http://www.usda.gov/oce/waob/wasde/wasde.htm
FAO-World
Agricultural Information Centre:
Despite the fact that the right to food is
recognized directly or indirectly by all countries in the world, hunger --
whether caused by war, drought, natural disaster or poverty -- continues to
cause widespread suffering. Ensuring the right to adequate food and to freedom
from hunger is a matter of international law, specifically enshrined in a number
of human rights instruments to which states around the world have committed
themselves.
Go to http://www.fao.org/FOCUS/E/DEFAULT.HTM
Farm
Service Agency:
American agriculture makes up over 15 percent of
our gross domestic product, and it generates $1 trillion in economic activity
each year. One in six working Americans has a job in some aspect of the food and
fiber economy, while every American benefits from U.S. agriculture. FSA
employees are devoted to improving the economic stability of agriculture by
providing top-notch service to 65 million rural Americans. Our Agency
administers a myriad of programs – farm loans, farm programs, food aid,
conservation incentives, and others – to help keep our Nation’s farmers and
ranchers on their land, and to help those who wish to begin farming and ranching
for their livelihoods.
Go to http://www.fsa.usda.gov
Foreign
Agricultural Service:
The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) works to improve foreign market access for
U.S. products. FAS operates programs designed to build new markets and improve
the competitive position of U.S. agriculture in the global marketplace.
Go to http://www.fas.usda.gov
Center
for International Disaster Information:
Center for information on disasters globally.
Go to http://www.cidi.org/sitreps.htm
Drought
& Prayer-'till the Rains Come:
Provides
a unique forum to drought and its effects around the world. This site is a
response of ordinary people to the devastation of drought & floods in many
parts of the world. A Prayer Experience is an experiment in prayer using
photographs which I hope you will enjoy. Please forward your ideas, comments,
etc. On the Search Latest News page, is the "GoTo" search Engine, one
of the fastest, easiest ways to find the most relevant web sites on any topic,
as well as links to access the worlds best news services.
Go to http://members.ozemail.com.au/~sjhop/prayer.htm
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