http://www.weather.com/weather/videos/most-popular-62/most-viewed-436/watching-the-tropics-6584
This is a video link from weather.com, which I really like because it shows not only current disaster videos, but also the most popular and the most shared. It also shows the different large natural disasters that have happened recently and shows great footage of these storms.
http://www.noaawatch.gov/
This is a cool website which where it talks about all different types of hazards. This link is called "NOAA All Hazard Monitor" and you can look at any type of hazard or disaster and see what they are and where they most likely occur.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/
This is a very cool link from NASA that gives an image of the world with little markers all over it which, when you hover your mouse over them, tell you the date and the type of hazard occurring there.
http://www.pdc.org/iweb/pdchome.html;jsessionid=56AC5F1018881AF5F9AFEA1DF8846549
This is a really cool website I found and when you go there there is a world map in the middle with a lot of different symbols representing current hazards taking place around the world and shows the magnitude or severity of what is going on in these areas. If you actually click on the symbols it gives you an in depth look into the disaster/hazard. Another thing cool about this site is that you can turn a population density layer on and it redraws the map with population densities so you can look at the impact that areas with high densities could possibly face from one of these events.
http://across.co.nz/WorldsWorstDisasters.html This link is a list of the worlds worst natural disasters but the one I'm looking at is the cyclone that hit bangladesh in 1970 where 500,000 people were killed. This hazard follows both the engineering and the development paradigm along with the behavioural paradigm. I chose this cyclone to look at because of the magnitude of the storm and how it went down as one of the most destructive and deadly storms in history.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/11/japan-earthquake-tsunami_n_834380.html
This is a link talking about the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan earlier this year. This disaster fits the behavioral paradigm because of the impact it had on the people living on the coast and also fits the developmental paradigm because all of the people that died as a result of Japan's dense population in areas that were hit. It's hard to say anything about the engineering approach because with this being one of the largest earthquakes in history and then the resulting tsunami, I don't know if we or anyone could be capable of constructing infrastructure to withstand this force but villages that got completely destroyed were poorer and didn't have adequate infrastructure. When looking at the complexity approach, there was some order to relocate to different places, however there wasn't much warning and response effort in the early stages.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/gsn/
I got this link from the USGS and I find it really important when looking at the complexity paradigm. This link looks at earthquake hazards and focuses on the Global Seismographic network and tells what it is and how it was formed. This site also has a current map, which it won't let me copy into here, but it shows the world with all of the different seismographic and geophysical sensors in the world and each sensor is labeled with a different color to tell if the data was from the last 10 minutes, the last 24 hours or 24 hours plus, however most of the markers display data from the last 10 minutes so its extremely up to date. You can also click on the symbols to get more information about the sensor.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032128/ns/weather/
I got this link from msnbc.com's weather section and I really like it because it gives recent weather hazards and disasters happening across the world, not just here in the U.S. I also like it because the articles relating to the hazards are well written and give good information. You can also browse great weather videos and photos.
