Natural Disasters in Texas

Resources

Supplies:

Office and Creative Supplies

6 Video Cameras

Data Analysis Software

            LoggerPro

            CarpoCabSoftware

6 Temperature Probes

6 CO₂ Probes

Weather Kits

Flood tables

Wave tanks

 Websites:

Earthquakes

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/states.php?regionID=43&region=Texas

This website is helpful because it gives the history of earthquakes in Texas.  It also describes how the intensity of earthquakes are measured as well as what is going on with seismic activity right now.

Volcanoes

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2005/3121/2005-3121.pdf

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Cascades/CurrentActivity/current_updates.html

This website gives updates of volcanic activity accruing in the United States, particularly around Mount St. Helens.

All-

www.usgs.gov

This site has a variety of resources from computer simulations of the formation of different natural disasters to the history of different disasters to literature about what is effecting disasters today.

www.noaa.gov

This site gives up to date events happening in weather and natural disasters.