Natural Hazards Links

Lecture Questions

1. PDF of Lecture Questions
2. PDF of Lectures
3. Exam 1 Key
4. Exam 2 Key

Whatcom County Resousres

1. C&H Cartoon
2. WA Emergency Management Division
3. Whatcom County Hazards Map
4. Whatcom County Vulnerability Analysis
5. Whatcom County Emergency Management (DEM)
6. 2003 Disaster Preparation Handbook
7. Whatcom County Maps
8. Whatcom County Lahar Hazard Map
9. Whatcom County Liquefaction Map
10. Coastal-Slope Stabilty, Whatcom County (Ecology)
11. TerraServer USA (Web-Based Topo Map)
12. Washington State Liquefaction Maps

Population and Land Use

1. World Population Balance
2. World Population Densities
3. Relative World Population Densities
4. US Population Density
5. Population Statistics (GeoHive)
6. Bacteria in a Bottle
7. Negative Population Growth
8. Population Bomb Fizzles
9. U.S. Census Bureau
10. Coastal Population Densities
11. Coastal Population Explosion
12. Population Density and Volcanoes
13. Washington Population Density
14. Population Reference Bureau (Lifestyle Choices)
15. Population, World Watch Institute
16. Ecological Footprint Quiz
17. Populations Outrunning Water Supply
18. U.S. Outrunning Water Supply
19. Energy Consumption (WPB)
20. Energy Consumption (GeoHive)
21. Global Warming (EPA)
22. Sea Solar Power
23. Urban Sprawl
24. Urban Sprawl (Sierra Club)

Hazard, Risk, Mitigation, and Preparedness

1. Hazard and Risk
2. Hazard (example)
3. Risk Perception
4. Risky Jobs
5. A Comparison of Risk
6. Risk Matrix
7. FEMA Mitigation
8. Washington Emergency Management Division
9. Washington State Hazard Mitigation (MRSC)
10. Skagit County Mitigation Plan
11. Whatcom County Vulnerability Analysis
12. Whatcom County Emergency Management (DEM)
13. 2003 Disaster Preparation Handbook
14. Seattle Life-Lines Map
15. PNW Maps
16. Puget Sound Faults
17. Map of Historic EQs in Washington
18. Whatcom County Hazards Map
19. Coastal-Slope Stabilty, Whatcom County (Ecology)
20. Current River Monitoring, Washington (USGS)

Plate Tectonics

1. Plate Tectonics and the Scientific Method
2. World Map of Plates
3. World Map of Plates (USGS)
4. Juan de Fuca Plate
5. Juan de Fuca Plate Cross Section
6. Plate Velocities (GPS)
7. Cascadia GPS Sites
8. Cascadia Velocities
9. Plate Velocities (USGS)
10. Plate Tectonic ABCs
11. What on Earth is Plate Tectonics
12. Plate Tectonics (USGS)
13. Plate Tectonics Maps (USGS)
14. Alfred Wegener
15. Historical Perspective
16. Plate Tectonic Animations-Atwater
17. More Plate Tectonic Animations-2
18. More Plate Tectonic Animations-3
19. Plate Tectonic Visualizations
20. More Animations
21. Juan de Fuca Plate Magnetics
22. Shrinking Juan de Fuca Plate
23. Earthquakes and Plate Tectonics
24. Juan de Fuca EQs (USGS)

Earthquakes

1. Most Recent Earthquakes in the World (USGS)
2. Earthquakes Hazards Program (USGS)
3. CREW
4. Seismic Monitor, IRIS
5. Cascadia Subduction Zone (Canada)
6. Juan de Fuca Plate Seismic Zone
7. Earthquakes in Cascadia (Wells et al.)
8. Fault Types
9. Fault Animations
10. Shallow, Deep, and Subduction EQs (USGS)
11. Shallow Crustal EQs (USGS)
12. Washington Earthquake Information, USGS
13. Pacific Northwest Earthquake Information
14. Puget Sound Faults
15. Puget Sound Lidar Consortium
16. Quaternary Faults in Washington
17. Boulder Creek Fault
18. Seismic Wave Animations
19. Pacfic Northwest Seismograph Stations
20. Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
21. WWU Seismic Station
22. What is Richter Magnitude
23. Community Internet Intensity Map
24. Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale
25. Did You Feel it Form (USGS)
26. PNW Recent EQs (Shake Maps-USGS)
27. PNW Latest EQs (Shake Maps-UW)
28. Lake Chelan EQ (1872)
29. Cascade Volcano Seismicity (USGS)
30. Kendall Fault in the News
31. Slow Earthquakes
32. Sediment Cores indicating past subduction zone EQs
33. Earthquake Frequency (USGS)
34. Historic EQs of the PNW (USGS)
35. Nisqually Earthquake
36. Earthquake Hazard Maps 101
37. Earthquake Hazard Maps
38. EQ Probability Mapping
39. EQ Custom Mapping
40. Spectral Acceleration
41. Spectral Response
42. Critical Damping
43. Pacific Northwest Groundshaking Maps (USGS)
44. Pacific Northwest Groundshaking Map (Canada)
45. Create an EQ Probability Map
46. Uniform Building Code "Zone" Maps
47. Seattle Life-Lines Map
48. CREW (Mitigation)
49. Earthquake Prepardness
50. Cascadia and Seattle Fault Scenarios
51. Cascadia and Seattle Fault Scenarios - Transportation

Tsunamis

1. Tsunami Warning Center, NOAA
2. Indonesia Tsunamis Disaster(BBC)
3. Indonesia Before-After Pictures
4. Tsunamis Introduction (PBS)
5. Wave Animations
6. World Large EQs , USGS
7. Tsunamis, USGS
8. Tsunamis, NOAA
9. Tsunamis Research, NOAA
10. DART, NOAA
11. How DART Works, NOAA
12. Tsunamis, UW
13. Puget Sound Tsunamis
14. Historical Seismicity for the Aleutian Islands
15. Great Alaska Earthquake 1964 - Tsunami
16. Tsunami Travel Time Maps
17. Tsunamis Annimations
18. Tsunamis Visualizations (Carelton College)
19. Tsunami Mitigation
20. Pacific County Emergency Management--Tsunami Mitigation
21. Bellingham Tsunami Inundation Map
22. Bellingham Tsunami Evacuation Map
23. Bellingham Tsunami Inundation Report

Coastal

1. Beach Erosion
2. Coastal Population Densities
3. Coastal Population Explosion
4. Coastal Population East Coast USA
5. Washington Coastal Hazards (Ecology)
6. Water Wave Information
7. Fetch and Wind Generated Wave Size
8. Dams
9. Visible Earth - Erosion/Sedimentation
10. Beach Nourishment
11. Southeast Louisiana Land Loss
12. PNW Wind Rose
13. Coastal Erosion from El-Nino Winter Storms
14. Coastal Erosion from El-Nino Winter Storms Pictures
15. Sea Level Rise, EPA
16. Sea Level Rise Mote et al., (2008)
17. Tide Gauges in Washington
18. Sea Level Rise Maps
19. Planning for Sea Level Rise, USACE
20. Shoreline Photos
21. Coastal Management, NOAA
22. Coastal Management Links
23. Groins and Other Structural Features
24. Groin Wave Animation

Volcanoes

1. The Dynamic Planet
2. Eruptions (Science Blog)
3. Volcanoes and Hot Spots
4. Volcano Hazards Programs, USGS
5. Volcanoes and Humans, Smithsonian Institute
6. Volcanic Ash, USGS
7. Ash and Aircraft, USGS
8. Cascades Volcanic Observatory, USGS
9. Mt. Baker Volcano Observatory
10. In Harm's Way: Population and Volcanic Risk (Geotimes, April 2004)
11. Global Volcanism and Human Population
12. Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI)
13. Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam
14. Mt. Baker - Living with an Active Volcano, USGS
15. Seismic Monitoring on Mt. Rainier, USGS
16. Seismic Signatures on Mt. Rainier, USGS
17. Remote Sensing, USGS-AVO
18. CO2 Kills Trees as Mammoth Mountain, CA
19. Location Map for the Three Sisters Volcano in Oregon (USGS)
20. GPS Monitoring at Three Sisters Volcano in Oregon (USGS)
21. InSAR Fact Sheet
22. Monitoring Volcanoes with InSAR
23. Hydrologic Monitoring
24. Philippines
25. Mt. Pinatubo Location Map
26. The 1991 Mount Pinatubo Eruption
27. Mount Pinatubo - 10 Years Later
28. Global Effects of Mount Pinatubo
29. Volcano World (featuring "Ask a Volcanologist")
30. Volcano Glossary

Lahars

1. Path of Destuction: The Hidden Threat at Mt. Rainiera (Geotimes,2004)
2. Lahars on Mt. Rainier, USGS
3. Hisrorical Lahars on Mt. Rainier, USGS
4. Lahar Monitoring on Mt. Rainier, USGS
5. Cities Affected by lahars on Mt. Rainier, USGS
6. Bridge for Kids (Orting, WA)
7. Whatcom County Lahar Hazard Map
8. Mitigation - MTU Peace Corps Program

Landslides

1. Slope Mechanics Lecture
2. Kayak Landlside Video
3. Washington DNR - Landslides
4. La Conchita, CA Landlside (USGS Report)
5. The Liquid Earth, by Brenda Bell
6. College Way Slide
7. Puget Sound Landslides (DOE)
8. Landslide Hazards Program (USGS)
9. December 7, 2007 Storm, DNR
10. Seattle Landslide Probability
11. Seattle Landslide Probability Map
12. Whatcom County Hazard Map
13. Landslide Monitoring (USGS)
14. Landslides-Rainfall Intensity (USGS)
15. Japan Landlside Video
16. Vaiont Landslide
17. Kelso Washington Landslide
18. Seattle Project Impact: Landslides
19. Landslides in Seattle after 1996 Storm, Ecology
20. Landslides in Seattle after 1996 Storm, USGS
21. Landslides and Rainfall Intensity in Seattle
22. Transpiration

Subsidence

1. Land Subsidence (USGS)
2. Land Subsidence from Groundwater Pumping (USGS)
3. Land Subsidence in Houston, TX
4. Land Subsidence in Mexico City
5. Land Loss of Coastal Louisiana
6. Antigravity in Pisa (2000, August)
7. Subsidence of New Orleans
8. Antigravity in Pisa (2000, August)
9. Leaning Tower of Pisa
10. Coal Mines in Bellingham
11. Soil Liquefaction
12. Soil Liquefaction Maps for Counties in WA (DNR)
13. Liquefaction Susceptibility for WA State (Palmer et. al, 2004)
14. Soil Liquefaction Map for Seattle
15. Intensity Map: Nisqually EQ
16. Ground Shaking Map: Nisqually EQ
17. Liquefaction: Nisqually EQ
18. Landslides: Nisqually EQ
19. Liquefaction: Nisqually EQ Pictures
20. Soil Liquefaction Map of San Francisco Bay Area
21. Washington State Liquefaction Maps

Floods

1. Virtual River Exercise
2. Stream Gauging Tutorial, NSF
3. WWU Weather Station
4. WWU Weather Station Archive
5. CO2 and Streamflow
6. Washington Annual Precipitation
7. Whatcom County River and Flood Division
8. Washington State Flood Hazard Profile
9. USGS Water Watch
10. WWU Weather
11. Flood Hazards (USGS)
12. WWU Weather Station Archive
13. Floods, USGS
14. Current River Conditions in Washington, USGS
15. Remote Sensing - Snow (NOAA)
16. Washington State SNOTEL Sites
17. Nooksack at Ferndale - Peak Flow
18. Teaching Floods and Flooding Quantitatively (Carleton)
19. The 100-Year Flood, USGS
20. Whatcom County 100-Year Flood Hazard Map
21. FEMA Map Service
22. Northwest River Forecast Center, NOAA
23. Hydrometorological Modeling and Forecast Group, UW
24. Levees in New Orleans
25. Levees Setback Project
26. Diversions in China
27. Whatcom County Flood Fact Sheet
28. Flood Survival Guide

Groundwater

1. National Groundwater Atlas
2. Hydraulic Conductivity: Power Point (pdf)
3. Seawater Intrusion Power Point (pdf)
4. Nitrates in Whatcom County: Power Point (pdf)
5. Sources of Groundwater Contamination
6. Water Science for Schools
7. King County Groundwater Video
8. World Watch Institute: Water
9. Water and Food: Postel
10. Groundwater Foundation
11. Groundwater Awareness (State of Nevada)
12. Seawater Intrusion: Whidbey Island
13. Seawater Intrusion: Lopez Island
14. Hanford Location Map
15. Hanford Contamination Sources
16. Hanford Hydrogeology
17. Hanford: Groundwater Report Figures
18. Hanford Contaminants (Fact Sheets)
19. Hanford: General Information
20. 4th & Harris Site
21. Nonpoint Source Pollution
22. Abbotsford-Sumas Aquifer
23. Abbotsford-Sumas Aquifer: Figure
24. Nitrate Vulnerability in the Puget Sound
25. MTBE in Groundwater
26. What is a Superfund?
27. US Superfund Sites
28. Superfund Sites in Washington
29. Yucca Mt Info
30. Groundwater Remediation (EPA)

Global Warming

1. RealClimate Blog Site
2. NOAA Global Warming Site
3. NOAA Abrupt Climate Change
4. International Panel on Climate Change
5. Climate Change Kids Site (EPA)
6. Climate Change (EPA)