Natural Disasters

Use the following resources to research natural disasters that have occurred in both historical and modern times.

Book Sources

Use Web Collection Plus to search for books located in the IMC.

Books will be located in a variety of call numbers including the 500s.

eBooks

 

Conduct a Power Search to search the Gale collection of eBooks and four other databases including Discovering Collection and Newspaper Source.

Online Databases

Science Databases
Science Online from Facts on File
Science Reference Center from Ebsco
Science Resource Center from Thomson/Gale

Historical & Magazine and Newspaper Databases
Historical New York Times from Proquest
History Database Search from Facts on File
History Resource Center-World  from Gale
MasterFile Premier from Ebsco
SIRS Researcher and Government Reporter from Proquest

Multimedia Databases
AP Images from AccuNet
Learn 360 from Gloucester County AVA
United Streaming

Websites
Global Volcanism Program from the Smithsonian Institute
NASA's Volcano Research Center
National Hazards Data from the National Geophysical Data Center
Natural Disasters from National Geographic
Natural Disaster Reference Database from the Earth Sciences Division of NASA
US Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory Website
Volcanoes  A List of Websites created by the Librarians' Internet Index