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NCEI/WDS 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 1867. Each event also links to NCEI's Global Historical hazards databases, which provide details for these events.
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| issued | 2012-02-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
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"Earth Science > Solid Earth > Tectonics > Volcanic Activity",
"Earth Science > Solid Earth > Tectonic Landforms > Faults",
"Earth Science > Solid Earth > Geomorphic Landforms/Processes",
"Earth Science > Solid Earth > Geomorphic Landforms/Processes > Tectonic Processes > Subduction",
"Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Tsunamis",
"Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Waves > Seiches",
"Earth Science > Human Dimensions > Natural Hazards > Tsunamis",
"Earth Science > Human Dimensions > Natural Hazards > Landslides",
"Earth Science > Human Dimensions > Natural Hazards > Land Subsidence",
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"ICSU-WDS > International Council for Science - World Data System",
"Geographic Region > Global Land",
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2012-02-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
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| temporal | 1867-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/1867-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | NCEI/WDS Natural Hazards Image Database |
