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Good discussion developing the idea that increased impacts from earthquakes are the result of more people living in large poorly constructed cities in Earthquakes zones.

Page which links to the full Red Cross annual report on diasters - this years focus is on early warning, early action.

The impact of Chile earthquake.

Nick Bryant from the BBC reports on drought and the impact of poor resource management on water availability within the MDB.

Stunning pictures of the impact of drought on the Turkana people of northern Kenya.

Child eye from the Guardian, 5 minute clip about the impact of drought on the nomadic pastoralists of northern Kenya.

A look a the disparat impact of Hurricane katrina on different soci-economic groups within New Orleans.

A news article outlining the impact of the recession on migrants from eastern Europe living in rural areas of the UK.

Greta sat imgaes of the impact of the 2004 Asian Tsunami

Detailed and comprehensive site from the US covering all aspects of the hurricane hazard including formation, prediction and modeling, impacts and human response.

A brief text on Haiti earthquake - Causes (plate boundaries), Intensity, Infrastructure etc.

The 7.0-magnitude Haiti earthquake would be a strong, potentially destructive earthquake anywhere, but it is an unusually strong event for Haiti, with even more potential destructive impact because of the weak infrastructure of the impoverished nation. Sliding plates: Earthquakes typically occur along the jigsaw-puzzle pieces of Earth's crust, called plates, which move relative to one another, most of the time at an imperceptibly slow pace. In the case of the Haiti quake, the Caribbean and North American plates Intensity and infrastructure: Another factor in the damage that a quake can cause is it intensity. While magnitude is a measurement of how much energy is released by an earthquake, intensity is "simply an estimate or a measure of how strongly that earthquake was felt," said Don Blakeman, an earthquake analyst with the United States Geological Survey.

Guardian photographer and filmmaker David Levene spent a week in Port-au-Prince documenting the human cost of the recent earthquake"

UN agency website established to pull together attempts to reduce the impact of disasters around the world.

Good for learning the basic ideas for the cyclone happened in Bangladesh in 2007.