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Disaster
Management Resources: >
Databases
Databases
related to studies and resources for disaster mitigation:
Here is
a selection of databases both national as well international,
searched from web. A collection of studies and links of
documentation related to disasters, relief and rehabilitation
methodology. Besides these, links to resources for forecasting
disasters are provided here. The source of the reference is
also given along with them.
General:
 Global
Emergency Management Systems:
The Global
Emergency Management System is an online, searchable database
containing links to Websites in a variety of categories that
are related in some way to emergency management. In most cases
there is also a brief description of what the Website offers.
Go to http://www.app1.fema.gov/gems/
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Earthquake:
Database related to earthquake related
experiences and studies:
Asian Disaster Reduction Center:
The Asian Disaster
Reduction Center has been established in Kobe, Hyogo
Prefecture, to facilitate exchange of disaster reduction
experts from each country and concerned bodies, accumulate and
provide disaster reduction information, and carry out research
into multinational disaster reduction cooperation as the focus
of this initiative. Go
to: http://www.adrc.or.jp/hanshin/database/government.asp?Frame=
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National Information Center of Earthquake
Engineering- IIT Kanpur:
National
Information Center of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) at the
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
provides information related to earthquake engineering. The
center has a collection of books related to Earthquake Engineering
and seismology: Go to
http://nicee.org/NICEE/acquisitions.html as
also Information
Resources on Indian standards related to earthquake
engineering: Go to http://nicee.org/NICEE/suggested_readings.htm
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Info
Change - Disasters: - A ICICI Communities & Info Change
initiative
India
is the worst-affected theatre of disaster in the South Asian
region. Drought, floods, earthquakes and cyclones devastate
the country with grim regularity. Ten thousand were killed in
the Orissa supercyclone of 1999, and 16,000 died in the
earthquake that hit Kutch in January 2001. Are these natural
disasters caused by nature's fury? Go to http://www.infochangeindia.org/DisastersIh.jsp?section_id=12&detailurl=Disasters
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Manage
Disasters: An initiative providing vital disasters related
information for India:
This
site provides: 
A background to natural disasters and disaster management in
India Information,
right down to the district level, on the vulnerability and
disaster-preparedness of the ten most disaster-prone states in
India Checklists
for emergency situations Detailed
case studies from hotspots such as Kutch. This
site is a collaborative initiative of InfoChange and NCA. Go
to http://managedisasters.org/
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CRID
Disaster Database:
CRID is the Spanish acronym for the
Regional Disaster Information Ctr., a group of 6 organizations
combined to ensure the compilation & dissemination of
disaster-related information in Latin America & the Caribbean. Go
to http://www.crid.or.cr/crid/bodyen.asp
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EEA--
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (NISEE):
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
covers the world literature in earthquake engineering since
1971. Contents include selected technical reports, conference
papers, monographs, and journal articles. Most materials are
available for loan from Nisee. Go
to
http://nisee.berkeley.edu/eea.html
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QUAKELINE®--MCEER
database:
QUAKELINE® is a bibliographic
database produced by the MCEER Information Service since 1987.
It covers earthquakes, earthquake engineering, natural hazard
mitigation, and related topics, and includes records for
journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, maps,
and videotapes. Most materials are available for loan or
photocopy from the MCEER Information Service. Go to
http://mceer.buffalo.edu/utilities/quakeline.asp
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Hazards
Literature Database (HazLit):
HazLit is the online library
database of the Natural Hazards Research and Applications
Information Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The library of the Natural Hazards Center houses an extensive
collection of social science literature focusing on how
society prepares for, responds to, recovers from, and
mitigates natural disasters. This non lending library is an
important resource for all persons involved in disaster
management. The collection includes approximately 17,000
items, approximately one-third of which are fully annotated in
this database. The HazLit Database is an on-line index that
provides bibliographic access only to that collection. Hazlit
is not a full-text database, and the Hazards Center Library
does not loan its holdings to the general public. Go to http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/litbase/litindex.htm
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ASCE's
Civil Engineering Database:
ASCE publications. The database
covers ASCE documents published since 1974. It provides access
to all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards,
manuals, magazines, and newsletters. Go to http://www.pubs.asce.org/chrhome2.html
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Earthquake
Spectra Abstract Search:
The Earthquake Engineering
Research Institute is a national, nonprofit, technical society
of engineers, geoscientists, architects, planners, public
officials, and social scientists. EERI members include
researchers, practicing professionals, educators, government
officials, and building code regulators. EERI established
Earthquake Spectra to improve the practice of earthquake
hazards mitigation, preparedness, and recovery. It is intended
to serve the informational needs of the diverse professions
engaged in earthquake hazards reduction--civil, geotechnical,
mechanical and structural engineers, geologists,
seismologists, architects, city planners, public officials,
social scientists, and researchers. Go to http://www.eeri.org/Publications/AbstractSearch.html
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Earthquake
Intensity Database Search 1638-1985 (NGDC):
The Earthquake Intensity Database
is a collection of damage and felt reports for over 23,000
U.S. earthquakes from 1638 to 1985. It contains information
regarding epicentral coordinates, magnitudes, focal depths,
names and coordinates of reporting cities (or localities),
reported intensities, and the distance from city (or locality)
to epicenter. Go to http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/int_srch.shtml
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Significant
Earthquake Database (NGDC):
The Significant Earthquake
Database is a global digital database containing information
on more than 5,000 destructive earthquakes from 2150 B.C. to
the present. The database provides the following information
for each event: time, latitude and longitude, depth,
magnitude/intensity, deaths, damage, class, references and
geographic location. Go to http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/hazard/sig_srch.shtml
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PEER
Strong Motion Database:
The PEER Strong Motion
Database contains over 1000 records from 140 earthquakes from
tectonically active regions. The database is processed by
using publicly available data from Federal, State, and private
providers of strong motion data. Go to http://peer.berkeley.edu/smcat/index.html
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Cyclone:
India
- Cyclones Fact Sheet:
U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID), Bureau for
Humanitarian Response (BHR): On October 18 and 19, a severe
cyclone in the Bay of Bengal hit the eastern coast of India,
causing floods and wind damage in Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, and
West Bengal states. A second, larger cyclone (the worst storm
in almost 30 years) struck India's eastern coastline on
October 29, further impacting Orissa and West Bengal states.
Go to
http://www.usaid.gov/hum_response/ofda/indiacyclone_fs1_fy00.html
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Down
to Earth: Cyclones in India:
The
term cyclone includes all tropical storms. They start as
swirls of cloud and rain that eventually intensify into
storms. The Indian sub-continent is the worst affected part in
the world. Although India accounts for only six per cent of
the cyclones worldwide, it records the maximum damage. Go to
http://www.cseindia.org/html/dte/dte20010630/dte_stati.htm
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Tropical
Cyclone Watch:
Publications
and references to tropical cyclone watch, data and observations, plus
online resources to tracking the cyclone. Go to
http://ltpwww.gsfc.nasa.gov/Architext/AT-NDRDRESsearch.cgi?search=concept&search=tropical+cyclones
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Tropical
Storm Watch:
This
is a seasonal page, and has been unlinked from major
navigational pages. It is maintained here for archival
purposes only. No updates will occur to this page, in
particular but reference could be taken from this page to get
information about the climatic condition in tropical reagions.
Go to http://www.fema.gov/fema/trop.htm
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Floods:
Central
Water Commission, Government of India:
Central
Water Commission is a premier Technical Organization in the
country in the field of Water Resources since 1945 and is
presently functioning as an attached office of the Ministry of
Water Resources. The Commission is charged with the general
responsibilities of initiating, coordinating and furthering in
consultation of the State Governments concerned, schemes for
control, conservation and utilization of water resources
throughout the country, for purpose of Flood Control,
Irrigation, Navigation, Drinking Water Supply and Water Power
Development. It also undertakes the investigations,
construction and execution of any such schemes as required. Go
to
http://www.nic.in/cwc/
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International Commission for
Irrigation and Drainage ICID, New Delhi:
LOGID is a database which has been launched by the working group
"Decision system for earth and water management " from ICID
(India) and is freely distributed on a disk allowing to browse
existing software and to add new products by ICID National Committees.
LOGID is freely distributed and has been provided by the ICID for free
download from the IRRISOFT a FTP Server. Go to http://www.wiz.uni-kassel.de/kww/irrisoft/irrisoft_i.html#index
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Flood
Hazard Database:
RMSI has executed projects to
provide high resolution seismic and hurricane hazard-related
databases for regions of risk round the world. For seismic
hazard risk, the data captured includes geo-technical
features, slope and elevation, water table level data,
location of seismic sources and locations of man made
facilities. For hurricane hazard the data captured includes:
distance to coast line, slope and elevation, terrain features
and man made features that may alter the terrain natural
roughness. Go to http://www.rmsinet.com/projectgeospatial.htm
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Hindu
Kush-Himalayan Flow
Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (HKH-FRIEND):
The HKH-FRIEND project is one of the seven regional
groups under the FRIEND project (Project 1.1: Application of methods
of hydrological analysis using regional data sets) of the
International Hydrological Programme (IHP) of UNESCO which was
launched in March 1996. Its aim is to develop a better understanding
of the hydrological variability and similarity across different
regions through the mutual exchange of data, knowledge and techniques.
Go to http://www.icimod.org.sg/focus/water/HKH-FRIEND%20Nutshell.html
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Controlling Flood
through best management practices:
At the present time 130
million people of Bangladesh are facing a series of environmental
problems. The people are repeatedly confronted by natural and
human-made catastrophes such as flooding, surface and groundwater
pollution, droughts, cyclones, riverbank erosion, air pollution,
wetland loss, tornadoes, and coastal erosion. While some of these
environmental degradations and calamities are not directly related to
human activities and land-use practices (such as tornadoes, and
cyclones), others are related to human interactions with the nature.
Go to http://www.bytesforall.org/8th/control_flood.htm
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Drought:
Drought
Mitigation Activities:
Paper presented at AMS Conference, 12th International Conference
on Interactive Information and Processing System (IIPS) for
Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Atlanta, Georgia
(U.S.A.) January 28-February 2, 1996. Go to
http://hydrology.nws.noaa.gov/hrl/papers/amsbah.htm
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India
Media Center: Drought
News Resource:
Drought
News Resource: Indymedia
is a collective of independent media organizations
and
hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate
coverage of major protests. Go to http://india.indymedia.org/
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A
case study of Drought recovery:
A village in Madhya Pradesh lifts itself from drought with local action and grit.
Go to http://www.goodnewsindia.com/Pages/content/conservation/balodaLakha.html
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In pictures: India's drought
Fifty million Indians across four states have been affected by
drought, said to be the worst in 100 years. A pictures profile by
BBC. Go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_728000/728124.stm
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States
affected by droughts in India:
Map
of drought affected areas in India. Go
to http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/mapinnews/03052000.htm
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Current Drought-Related Impacts and Humanitarian Issues:
USDA's
Drought Information
Page:
Provides comprehensive information on USDA's drought
assistance programs and other related resources. All Secretarial
Disaster Designations for drought are included here in map form. Go to
http://drought.fsa.usda.gov/
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The
Disaster Center:
The center maintains a Drought Mitigation
Information, Agricultural and Water News section that includes links
to all relevant disaster information for each state. Go to http://www.disastercenter.com/drought.htm
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The National
Weather Service's:
Provides weather maps and
current weather information data. Each map provides information on significant weather events across the United States for the given year. This information includes the type and date of event, states impacted, number of deaths, and monetary damage.
Go to http://205.156.54.206/om/sigwx.shtml
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NOAA-OGP's Rapid
Response Project:
RANET is an effort of several partners to make climate and weather related information more accessible throughout the world. It uses a variety of technologies, such as digital satellite radio, as well as training to accomplish its goal. The CIP is a core participant in this activity. From the CIP you can learn more about RANET. View its broadcasts as mirrored online, and participate in online discussions about the project.
Go to http://www.cip.ogp.noaa.gov/
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Disaster Relief:
Provides worldwide disaster aid and up-to-date information.
Weather Simulators Prepare Forecasters for the Real Thing: Research has long shown that big storms — from blizzards to tornadoes — are less deadly if meteorologists predict them and alert the public. To ensure that weather forecasters around the country become more familiar with the warning signs of major weather events, the National Weather Service is beginning to use a high-tech storm simulator as a training tool
Go to http://www.disasterrelief.org/
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WAOB
Outlook Reports:
Information and forecasts of world
supply-use balances of grains and products. Global 2001/02 production is up slightly from last month as
increases for Russia, Ukraine, and Mexico more than offset reductions for Argentina and Egypt. Global imports are up slightly
due to small increases for a number of countries. Projected exports
are increased for Russia, Turkey, and China but reduced for
Kazakstan. Go to http://www.usda.gov/oce/waob/wasde/wasde.htm
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FAO-World
Agricultural Information Centre:
Despite the fact that the right to food is recognized directly or indirectly by all countries in the world, hunger -- whether caused by war, drought, natural disaster or poverty -- continues to cause widespread suffering. Ensuring the right to adequate food and to freedom from hunger is a matter of international law, specifically enshrined in a number of human rights instruments to which states around the world have committed themselves.
Go to http://www.fao.org/FOCUS/E/DEFAULT.HTM
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Farm Service Agency:
American agriculture makes up
over 15 percent of our gross domestic product, and it
generates $1 trillion in economic activity each year. One in
six working Americans has a job in some aspect of the food and
fiber economy, while every American benefits from U.S.
agriculture. FSA employees are devoted to improving the
economic stability of agriculture by providing top-notch
service to 65 million rural Americans. Our Agency administers
a myriad of programs – farm loans, farm programs, food aid,
conservation incentives, and others – to help keep our
Nation’s farmers and ranchers on their land, and to help
those who wish to begin farming and ranching for their
livelihoods. Go to http://www.fsa.usda.gov
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Foreign Agricultural Service:
The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) works to improve foreign market access for U.S. products. FAS operates programs designed to build new markets and improve the competitive position of U.S. agriculture in the global marketplace.
Go to http://www.fas.usda.gov
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Center
for International Disaster Information:
Center for information on disasters
globally. Go to http://www.cidi.org/sitreps.htm
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Drought
& Prayer-'till the Rains Come:
Provides a unique forum
to drought and its effects around the world. This site is a response of ordinary people to the devastation of drought & floods in many parts of the world. A Prayer Experience is an experiment in prayer using photographs which I hope you will enjoy. Please forward your ideas, comments, etc. On the Search Latest News page, is the "GoTo" search Engine, one of the fastest, easiest ways to find the most relevant web sites on any topic, as well as links to access the worlds best news services.
Go to http://members.ozemail.com.au/~sjhop/prayer.htm
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Various Internet sites as mentioned
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