| Plate Tectonics |  People and the Physical World |
| Volcano World Homepage Up to date case studies and photographs of current volcano eruptions. |
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| Virtual
Hawaii A good tour of these naturally volcanic islands |
Plate Tectonics - Rivers - Glaciers
& Glaciation - Coasts - Hurricanes |
| Riverdale Earthquake and Volcano Page Very comprehensive with links to many other volcano resources including a Mt. St. Helens information page |
Places to Live - Needs - Environment - Useful URLS |
| Earthquake of the day Up to the minute information on earthquakes around the globe |
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| Earthquake Information 1 Up to the minute information from the US National Seismic System |
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| Earthquake
Information 2 Simply laid out information from the US Geological survey, including detailed information on the Californian quakes |
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| Earthquake
Intensity Find out what the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale is |
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| Major Tectonic Plates of the World
Text based site maintained by the US Geological Survey |
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| African-European Plate Collision
Text page explaining the plate collision between Africa and Europe |
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| Shifting
and Sliding Earthquakes Includes demonstrations of divergent, convergent and transformational plates |
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| UN
Country Profiles for Disaster Relief Excellent site - up to date information |
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| Seismo-surfing the InterNet | |
| Seismic Information from: quake@gldfs.cr.usgs.gov | |
| InfoSeek Net Search Results: volcano | |
| The Electronic
Volcano Excellent site maintained by Dartmouth col. USA |
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| Earthquake info. (IIJ) | |
| Mount St. Helens | |
| Earthquake Information | |
| VolcanoWorld Online | |
| Internet Disaster Information Center | |
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| Rivers | |
| National Rivers Authority (Thames) Excellent site for all things wet in the UK |
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| The Los Angeles River
Journey down the LA River looking at flood defence, pollution and other issues |
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| Mississippi Adventure Maintained by the Center for Global Environmental Education, this site has many interactive elements including links to river flooding and the History of the river. |
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| Flood Defence
Works Basic diagram of the UK showing the flood defence works maintained during 1994/95 |
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| Flood Hazard Research Centre This site is run by Middlesex Uni's School of Geography and Environmental Management |
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| Glaciers and Glaciation | |
| Glaciers Nice simple page looking at the Glaciers of the Olympic National Park. Easy to follow and understand |
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| Icebergs Indirectly linked to glaciers, this site contains 27 FAQ's (frequently asked questions) on Icebergs. It is maintained by the St. Johns International Ice Patrol |
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| Practice Glaciers Test Excellent page - contains 23 questions on glaciers and glaciation. Constructed by Timothy Heaton, Prof. of Earth Sciences at the University of South Dakota |
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| Coasts | |
| The Thames Barrier Environment Agency pages looking at all aspects of the Thames Barrier |
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| Ocean Planet A virtual exhibition about the oceans including a section on oceans in peril |
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| Centre
for Coastal Oceanography Fairly complex University site, though definitely worth a look |
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| Water Resources Act 1991 (c.57)
This is just a summary, though does include how to order the full 270 page Act |
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| Hurricanes | |
| usa today - Guide to hurricanes USA today's comprehensive guide to hurricanes |
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| FEMA - Tropical Storm and Hurricane Watch Information Federal Emergency Management Agency site |
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| wolfe 1 Hurricane info. from Wolfe County Schools |
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| Yahoo Search - Tornadoes | |
| Purdue
Weather Processor University of Perdue - includes clickable US weather map |
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| Perdue - Hurricane and Tropical data | |
| University of Hawaii Meteorology | |
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