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provided
by
ThinkQuest,
a
global
network
of
students,
teachers,
parents,
and
technologists
dedicated
to
youth-centered
learning
on
the
internet.
This
site
highlights
the
following
natural
disasters:
famine,
cyclones,
brushfires,
drought,
volcanoes,
earthquakes,
and
tsunamis.
Information
provided
about
these
disasters
includes
where
they
occur,
how
they
occur,
and
case
studies
of
each
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This website introduces students to earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. It includes reports about specific disasters as well as a quiz. Each report contains vocabulary words linked with their definitions and experiments to similate the natural disasters.
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This
site
explores
the
dual
faces
of
Mother
Nature
in
Hawaii
by
examining
four
powerful
forces
(volcanoes,
earthquakes,
tsunamis,
and
hurricanes),
focusing
on
the
disastrous
impacts
as
well
as
lessons
of
hope
and
renewal.
For
each
type
of
disaster,
there
are
explanations
of
making
predictions,
types
of
damage,
warning
systems,
emergency
preparation,
and
survival
stories.
There
are
volcano
and
tsunami
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A comprehensive list of federal, state, and international tsunami links and publications. Links are both internal and external and provide a wealth of information concerning tsunami causes, preparedness, prediction, effects, and more.
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This undergraduate level course examines the causes, effects, and options available to mitigate natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, subsidence, flooding, severe weather, and meteorite impacts. A brief course description links to course lecture notes, homework exercises, and a list of other natural disaster information sites on the World Wide Web.
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This site contains photographs, video, and an online diary made by Dr. Jose Borrero of the University of Southern California Tsunami research group, who visited the Aceh province of Northern Sumatra, one of the areas hardest hit by the tsunami and earthquake, just days after the disaster occurred.
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This
portal,
published
by
the
National
Oceanic
and
Atmospheric
Administration
(NOAA),
provides
links
to
an
extensive
set
of
resources
on
tsunamis,
both
worldwide
and
in
the
United
States.
There
are
links
to
basic
information,
news
articles,
information
on
the
Sumatran
tsunami
of
December
26,
2004,
and
to
a
section
on
the
role
of
NOAA
in
tsunami
forecasting
and
preparedness.
Other
links
access
information
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In
this
activity,
students
study
seismograms
from
three
different
seismic
stations
that
recorded
the
magnitude
9.0
Sumatra
earthquake
of
December
26,
2004.
By
comparing
the
arrival
times
of
the
P
and
S
waves
on
each
seismogram,
they
can
determine
the
distance
from
the
epicenter
to
each
station
and
accurately
map
its
location.
Using
this
information,
they
also
calculate
the
position
of
the
quake-generated
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Since
the
Indian
Ocean
tsunami
of
December
26,
2004,
scientists
have
tried
to
retrace
the
path
of
the
giant
waves
to
learn
how
and
why
the
water
moved
in
unexpected
directions,
even
turning
corners
and
producing
simultaneous
wavefronts
coming
from
different
directions.
This
radio
broadcast
describes
efforts
to
measure
the
strength,
distance
traveled
inland,
and
height
of
the
tsunami,
as
well
as
mapping
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This
Why
Files
article
looks
at
tsunamis
in
the
wake
of
the
July
17,
1998
disaster
in
Papua
New
Guinea
that
killed
over
a
thousand
people.
Topics
covered
are:
the
causes
of
tsunamis,
tsunami
movement
across
the
ocean,
the
history
of
some
killer
tsunamis
of
the
last
few
hundred
years,
and
ways
to
reduce
human
vulnerability
to
tsunamis.
Readers
can
download
a
movie
about
how
investigators
think
the
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