Natural Disasters

Weather Channel information on historical floods, tornadoes, heat waves, blizzards, and hurricanes:
http://www.theweatherchannelkids.com/weather-ed/weather-encyclopedia/

Historical earthquakes from the U.S. Geological Survey. Includes maps and some slide shows:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/topics.php?topicID=66&topic=Historic%20Earthquakes

KidsKonnect. Go to the Science section and select your disaster: http://www.kidskonnect.com/SubjectIndexHome.html	National hurricane center http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
Kids Click! Natural disasters: http://www.kidsclick.org/midnatu.html	Search under disaster type such as hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. http://whyfiles.org/
Fact Monster Weather: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0772916.html	FEMA for kids: the Disaster Area http://www.fema.gov/kids/dizarea.htm
Links to general disaster descriptions, dangers, and safety advice: http://www.fema.gov/hazard/types.shtm	Pick your disaster http://www.oar.noaa.gov/k12/index.html/storms2.html
Yahoo for Kids Earth science links: http://kids.yahoo.com/directory/Science-and-Nature/The-Earth	Volcano World--can search by volcano name http://volcano.und.edu
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Association. http://www.noaawatch.gov/	Earth's active volcanoes http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/world.html
Volcanoes of the world from the U.S. Geological Survey. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/	USGS Alphabetic Listing of well-know volcanoes http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/framework.html
	Hawaiian volcanoes http://hvo.sr.usgs.gov