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Natural Hazards Image Database |
Photographs and other visual media provide valuable pre- and post-event data
for natural hazards. Research, mitigation, and forecasting rely on visual data for
post-analysis, inundation mapping and historic records. Instrumental data only reveal
a portion of the whole story; photographs explicitly illustrate the physical and societal
impacts from an event. This resource provides high-resolution
geologic and damage photographs from natural hazards events, including earthquakes,
tsunamis, slides, volcanic eruptions and geologic movement (faults, creep, subsidence
and flows). The earliest images date back to 1886. Each event also links to NGDC?s
Global Historical hazards databases, which provide details for these events.
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