Disaster Report
Resources

Use the websites listed below to find information about your topic.

1918 Spanish Influenza PBS: The American Experience
 
1871 Chicago Fire History Files: Chicago Fire
  The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
 
1906 San Francisco Earthquake  The Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake  
1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
 
1930s Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl
The American Experience: Surviving the Dust Bowl
 
1888 New York City Blizzard The Blizzard of 1888
  Pictures at: NOAA Photo Library
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Blizzard
 
May 1980 Mt. St. Helens MSH The catastrophic first minute
How Volcanoes Work-the Mt. St. Helens eruption
 
1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill US EPA Oil Program - Exxon Valdez
NOAA NOS:Prince William's Oily Mess
Prince William Sound: Paradise Lost?
 
9/11/01 World Trade Center America's War Against Terror
  September 11 News.com
 
2004 Tsunami Intute: Natural Disasters and Hazards 
Tsunami! Sumatra 2004 
 
Hurricane Katrina  BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Hurricane Katrina
NOAA Hurricane Katrina
Time for Kids: Hurricane Katrina
Nova: Storm that Drowned a City
 
May 1999 Oklahoma City Tornado

NOAA 1999 Oklahoma/Kansas Tornado
Tornadoes in the Past

  Forces of Nature
 
!988 Yellowstone Fire NPR
  NPS:The Yellowstone Fires of 1988

Pictures at: NPS: Yellowstone Slides

 
 

 

 

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