Natural Hazards & Disasters Information & Research Centers
The purpose of this resource is to provide a listing of information and research centers located around the world dedicated to the study of natural disasters and hazard mitigation.
- Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
- http://www.adpc.net/
- Asian Disaster Reduction Center
- http://www.adrc.or.jp/
- Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre
- http://www.abuhrc.org/
- British Geological Survey
- http://www.bgs.ac.uk/
- California – Department of Conservation Earthquakes
- http://www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/geologic_hazards/earthquakes/
- California – Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES)
- http://www.oes.ca.gov/
- Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI) – University of Memphis
- http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/
- Center for Geotechnical Practice & Research – Virginia Tech
- http://cgpr.ce.vt.edu/
- Center for Hazards and Risk Research (CHRR) – Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Columbia University
- http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/
- Central United States Earthquake Consortium
- http://www.cusec.org/
- Centre for Disaster Studies – James Cook University
- http://www.tesag.jcu.edu.au/
- Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE)
- http://www.curee.org/
- Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- http://www.dhs.gov/
- Disaster Center
- http://www.disastercenter.com/
- Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) – Kyoto University
- http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/
- Disaster Research Center – University of Delaware
- http://www.udel.edu/
- Disasters Roundtable of the National Academies
- http://dels.nas.edu/
- Division of Seismology, Geology & Tectonophysics – Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
- Earth Observatory
- Earthquake Engineering Research Center – University of Bristol, UK
- http://www.bristol.ac.uk/
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
- http://www.eeri.org/
- Earthquake Engineering – Caltech Library Services
- http://library.caltech.edu/
- Earthquake Hazard Center (EHC) – University of Wellington, New Zealand
- http://www.vuw.ac.nz/
- Earthquake Information Center – University of Tokyo
- http://wwweic.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
- Earthquakes Canada – Natural Resources Canada
- http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/
- Emergency Management Australia
- http://www.ema.gov.au/
- Emergency Management Institute (EMI)
- http://training.fema.gov/
- Get Disaster Information – Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- http://www.fema.gov/
- Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
- http://gfdrr.org/
- Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program (GSHAP)
- http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/GSHAP/
- Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center – Texas A&M University
- http://archone.tamu.edu/hrrc/
- Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS)
- http://archone.tamu.edu/hrrc/
- Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS)
- http://www.ibhs.org/
- Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR)
- http://www.iclr.org/
- International Centre for Geohazards – Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
- http://www.geohazards.no/
- Information Network of Earthquake Disaster Prevention Technologies – International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (IISEE)
- http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/net/
- International Seismological Centre
- http://www.isc.ac.uk/
- International Tsunami Information Centre – UNESCO
- http://ioc3.unesco.org/itic/
- John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center – Stanford University
- http://blume.stanford.edu/
- Lessons Learned from Natural Disasters & Natural and Environmental Disaster Information Exchange System
- http://nedies.jrc.it/
- MCEER Information Service
- http://mceer.buffalo.edu/infoservice/
- Mid-America Earthquake Center (MAE)
- http://mae.ce.uiuc.edu/
- Middle East Seismological Forum (MESF)
- http://www.meseisforum.net/
- National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) – Center for Disease Control & Prevention
- http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/
- National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) - USGS
- http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/neic/
- National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA)
- http://www.nfpa.org/
- National Hazards Centre & New Zealand
- http://www.naturalhazards.net.nz/
- National Hazards Data & National Geophysical Center (NGDC)
- http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
- National Information Center for Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) – IIT Kanpur, India
- http://www.nicee.org/
- National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE) & EERC
- http://nisee.berkeley.edu/
- National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue (NIUSR)
- http://www.niusr.org/
- National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention & NIED
- http://www.bosai.go.jp/e/
- Natural Hazards Center – University of Colorado at Boulder
- http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/
- Natural Hazards Gateway – United States Geological Survey (USGS)
- http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/
- New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering Inc.
- http://www.nzsee.org.nz/
- Northeast States Emergency Consortium (NESEC)
- http://www.nesec.org/
- Observatories and Research Facilities for European Seismology (ORFEUS)
- http://www.orfeus-eu.org/
- Ottawa Carleton Earthquake Engineering Research Centre
- http://www.genie.uottawa.ca/oceerc/
- Pacific Disaster Center (PDC)
- http://www.pdc.org/
- Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER)
- http://peer.berkeley.edu/
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
- http://www.paho.org/
- ProVention Consortium
- http://www.proventionconsortium.org/
- Regional Disaster Information Center (CRID) Latin American & the Caribbean
- http://www.crid.or.cr/crid/ing/
- Risk Frontiers – Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- http://www.riskfrontiers.com/
- Seismology Research Centre
- http://www.seis.com.au/
- Societal Aspects of Weather
- http://www.sip.ucar.edu/socasp/
- Southern California Earthquake Center
- http://www.scec.org/
- University of the West Indies Seismic Research Unit
- http://www.uwiseismic.com/
- Western States Seismic Policy Council (WSSPC)
- http://www.wsspc.org/