Resources for emergency and disasters

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Here are a few representative organizations and civil activities/efforts that you might find helpful. If you’re aware of one that isn’t listed here, feel free to suggest it to us for inclusion.

General resources

• Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters, 1980-2010.
• Google Crisis Response.
• Hungarian National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE). (Disregard the arcane name; this is a very useful global map of humanitarian incidents.)
• United Nations site with information on humanitarian relief organizations.

By disaster type

Earthquakes

• Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program.
• US National Seismic Hazard Maps.

Tornadoes

• US tornadoes,1950-2009. Over 53,000 tornado maps.
• Tornado: Worldwide Tornado Intensity Map.

Volcanoes

• Volcano map.

Emergency Preparedness and Response

• US Centers for Disease Control emergency preparedness.
• International Red Cross Emergency-specific preparedness information.

By city

San Francisco

• San Francisco Fire Department Neighborhood Emergency Response Team (NERT), a community based training program dedicated to a neighbor-helping-neighbor approach.
• 72Hours.org, an effort of the City and County of San Francisco. Are you prepared?
• San Francisco Department of Emergency Management.
• SPUR’s Resilient City project.

New York

• New York City Office of Emergency Management and Get Prepared.
• New York State Office of Emergency Management.
• Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program information.
• Brooklyn South Community Emergency Response Team.