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Visualizing Natural Disasters: Floods, Storms, Hurricanes, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tsunamis By Claude Penland www. CatRisky .com

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Visualizing Natural Disasters: Floods, Storms, Hurricanes, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tsunamis, from Claude Penland, CatRisky.com

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Page 1: Visualizing Natural Disasters: Floods, Storms, Hurricanes, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tsunamis

Visualizing Natural Disasters:Floods, Storms, Hurricanes,

Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tsunamis

By Claude Penlandwww.CatRisky.com

Page 2: Visualizing Natural Disasters: Floods, Storms, Hurricanes, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tsunamis

Flood Maps

What if sea levels rise?

http://flood.firetree.net

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Tsunami Visualizations

Carleton CollegeTsunami Visualizations

http://bit.ly/e1DBjs

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Earthquakes

Most Recent Global Earthquakes

http://bit.ly/Npu3v

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Fault Zones

California Fault Zone Maps

http://bit.ly/g2ncCa

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Storm Prediction

US National Weather ServiceStorm Prediction Center

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/

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Tsunami Animations

NOAA Center for Tsunami Research

http://bit.ly/15iYPk

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Volcanoes

Volcano Tracking

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/

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Volcano Simulations

Discovery Channel

http://bit.ly/Kp81G

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QuakeSim Animations

http://quakesim.jpl.nasa.gov/animations.html

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Earthquake Simulations

Discovery Channel

http://bit.ly/6Dnj48

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Global Geostationary Weather Satellite Images

NASA

http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/

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NOAA's nowCOAST

GIS Mapping Portal

http://nowcoast.noaa.gov/