NCEI/WDS Natural Hazards Image Database

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: December 18, 2025 | Last Modified: 2012-02-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

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 1867. Each event also links to NCEI's Global Historical hazards databases, which provide details for these events.

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.ngdc:Hazard_Images_Database
issued	2012-02-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
language	[]
references	[ "https://doi.org/10.25923/3h7r-b967" ]
rights	otherRestrictions, otherRestrictions
spatial	180.0,-90.0,-180.0,90.0
temporal	1867-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/1867-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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