Links:
 AirDisaster.Com - This web site sports a plethora of aviation-safety information, including daily news, accident reports, crash photographs, crash videos, cockpit voice recordings, and much more.
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Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters: 1980-1999 - This web page, maintained by NOAA's National Climatic Data Center provides a list of U.S. weather disasters from 1980-1999 that exceeded $1 billion in costs. All the figures reflect direct and indirect damages, costs, and deaths. Events are listed beginning with the most
recent (or reverse chronological order).
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Disasters of 1998 - This web page, maintained by FEMA, provides information on Federally-declared disasters within the United States during the year 1998. The information is graphically and textually listed by State.
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Discovery Online: Earth Alert - Via this web site, the Discovery Channel offers a world map with
"Daily Updates of the State of Planet." Icons on the map indicate
recent disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, wildfire, drought,
infestations, temperature extremes, volcanic eruptions, avalanches,
tropical storms, landslides, high wind, and other major disasters.)
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Natural Disasters and Catastrophes - The "raisson d'etre" of this site is to draw together a broad range of data covering a variety of subjects with a developing emphasis on the causes, consequences and costs (where appropriate) of natural disasters and catastrophes. The site includes specific commentary, features and statistics on a variety of subjects.
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Natural Hazard Statistics (1995-1998) - This site, maintained by the NWS Office of Meteorology, provides a "Summary of U.S. Natural
Hazard Statistics" for years 1995-1998. Each summary is a report of fatalities, injuries, and
damage costs caused by severe weather during 1995-1998.
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Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey - The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Publications Database includes comprehensive bibliographic information on USGS
reports and maps published from 1880 to the present and references for
non-USGS publications with USGS authors published from 1983 to date - a total of approximately 110,000 publications. Each reference includes searchable keywords and some have abstracts. The text of the USGS
documents is not included; however, access to on-line publications of the Survey is provided. The database is a searchable subset of the GeoRef database produced
and owned by the American Geological Institute and was created under contract with the USGS.
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