Disasters

Current disasters

 * Disaster news
 * Oil Spills - Gulf Coast 2010
 * See CommunityWalk map for monitored disasters


 * Pacific Disaster Center
 * Disaster News Network
 * Earthquake news
 * Earthquake News
 * Flood news
 * US Rivers at Flood Stage
 * US Flood warnings
 * Fire news
 * Wildfire News
 * National Fire News
 * GeoMac Wildfire Information Map
 * Active Fires Map - Large Incidents
 * InciWeb National Incidents
 * Severe weather
 * NOAA Daily Forcast Map
 * US Severe Weather Map
 * Hurricanes
 * National Hurricane Center
 * 2006 Atlantic hurricane season
 * 2006 Pacific hurricane season
 * Beyond Katrina: 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season

Disaster categories

 * Avalanches can be triggered by Winter storms
 * Earthquakes can cause Fires, Landslides, and Tsunamis
 * Environmental disasters including major oil spills
 * Epidemics including Pandemics
 * Excessive heat such as the Chicago heat wave of 1995
 * Explosion disasters intentional and accidental
 * Droughts associated with Fires, dust storms, crop failures, and animal deaths caused by dehydration and starvation. Droughts are exacerbated by lose of glaciers, loss of aquifers, population growth, industrial and agricultural practices, and climate change.
 * Fires including urban, forest and wild fires
 * Floods caused by heavy rains, storm surges, and dam/dike/levee breeches
 * Hurricanes causing wind damage and Floods
 * Impact events from Near-Earth objects
 * Industrial disasters such as the one in Bhopal, India
 * Landslides including mudslides
 * Mining disasters
 * Nuclear disasters such as Chernobyl
 * Oil Spills such as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010
 * Power outages
 * Rail disasters
 * Tornadoes including severe thunder storms
 * Tsunamis caused by Impact events, Earthquakes or Landslides.
 * Volcanoes including Ash, Fires, Lahars, Landslides and Lava flows
 * Winter storms including blizzards, sleet, snow storms and ice storms

Note: Many of the listed disasters can happen in combination or result from terrorist attacks.

Internal links

 * Disaster news
 * Disaster preparedness
 * Training
 * Warnings