http://www.asc-india.org/
Amateur Seismic Centre. An informative site started by a young
undergraduate as a personal project who is now working as an Earthquake
Hazard Researcher with the United Nations Development Programme. The
site is a collection of information on recent quakes in South Asia.
Topics include: how we feel a quake, intensity maps, seismicity,
tsunamis, fault plane sols, and photographs.
http://www-megacities.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/www-mega/downloads/
A comprehensive summary of the Earthquake Master Plan for Istanbul
prepared by Mustafa Erdik from Bogazici University. The development of
the master plan was initiated by a request from the Metropolitan
Municipality (IMM) to a consortium involving four leading Turkish
universities: Bogazici, Istanbul Technical, Middle East Technical and
Yildiz Technical.
http://www.fema.gov/hazards/earthquakes/nehrp/
FEMA set up this site on their National Earthquake Hazards Reduction
Program (NEHRP). It includes resources, best practices, news
releases, and more. NEHRP is a Federal Government program to reduce the
risks to life and property from earthquakes. NEHRP agencies comprise;
FEMA, the lead agency; the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST); the National Science Foundation (NSF); and the United
States Geological Survey (USGS).
http://www.lastfirst.net/index.php
Last-First Networks Tools for Change. This non-profit resource
centre is dedicated to advancing effective community renewal and
grassroots development. It achieves this by raising awareness of proven
practical approaches to working with poor and marginal groups of any
society, and by resourcing practitioners and organizations who work with
these groups. The website has a searchable catalogue of over 11,000
resources on every aspect of community renewal, social change,
peace-building, aid and development practice, micro-enterprise, advocacy
and much more. An online shopping feature allows users to order
resources online.
http://www.disastereducation.org/guide.html
Talking About Disaster: Guide for Standard Messages (2004). This
site contains awareness and action messages intended to help people
reduce risk of injury or loss in the event of natural or human-caused
disasters. The earthquake section covers the need to talk about
earthquake disasters and awareness messages, actions to be taken at all
phases of a disaster event, Dos & Don’ts and Facts & Fictions about
earthquakes. Produced by the National Disaster Education Coalition (NDEC),
Washington DC, the Expert Disaster Preparedness Guide may be downloaded
for free.
http://www.undp.org.in/dmweb/UEVRP/
UNDP’s Urban Earthquake Vulnerability Reduction Project’s (UEVRP).
A collection of information resources on project activities, maps,
photographs, publications, documents and manuals, training courses and
workshops, human-interest stories, best practices and lessons learned.