Disaster Links for 6th Grade

Natural Disasters

Avalanche

• Inside an Avalanche-From tornadoes to hurricanes to volcanoes, NOVA has pioneered the popular genre of documentary films on natural disasters. Now we'll take you behind the scenes, and show you how we capture nature's fury on film.

• Cyberspace Snow and Avalanche Center -Named as a "Hot Site" by USA Today, this is your center for avalanche education and information!

Earthquakes

• World-Wide Earthquake Locator -General earthquake information, and specific info about recent quakes. From Dept. of Geography at the Univ. of Edinburgh.

Floods

• Flood (NOVA) -Information about floods from the PBS NOVA program.

• 1997 Fargo, North Dakota Flood Information -This was the site for "real-time" flood information during the flooding. Some archived material is available showing conditions during the flood.

Hurricanes

• Hurricane Watch -"What season is this? Hurricane season. Keep posted on where Mother Nature is throwing her latest fit. Great charts." -USA Today

Tornadoes

• Tornado Project Online -"Whirling with energy, this site provides gale-force amounts of information on tornadoes, storm chasing, safety and myths. Take a peek at tornado oddities to discover what happens to birds during twisters." -Global Schoolhouse Infolist

Man-made Disasters

Aviation

• Major Airline Disasters (1926-1997) -Incidents are listed in a table in chronological order giving details of Crash Date, Location, Aircraft Type, Airline, Likely Reason for Crash, Fatalities, and an incident report where available.

Chernobyl

• Chernobyl Survivors Recall a Decade of Death and Denial -CNN news coverage of 10 years after the disaster. Contains many links to related stories.

Maritime Disasters

• Andrea Doria -Collided with another ship in the fog off US Atlantic coast. This site has history of the ship, the accident, and pictures of items recovered by divers.

• Yahoo Master List of shipwreck sites -Includes the Edmund Fitzgerald and many others.