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• The Doom of London, by Fred M. White, illust. by Warwick Goble (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• When the Sun went out, by Leslie F. Stone, illust. by Frank R. Paul (Gutenberg ebook)
• When the moon fell, by Morrison Colladay, illust. by Frank R. Paul (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Last Centurion (included on the Claws that Catch Baen CD image; c2008), by John Ringo
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 285 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 286 MB

• Nordenholt's Million (London et al.: Constable and Co., 1923), by J. J. Connington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The last American; a fragment from the journal of Khan-Li, prince of Dimph-Yoo-Chur and admiral in the Persian navy (F. A. Stokes company, 1902), by John Ames Mitchell, Albert Dodd Blashfield, F. W. Read, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, John Wilson and Son, and Frederick A. Stokes Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire, by William Harrison Ainsworth (Gutenberg text)
• Firebrands (Little, Brown, and Company, 1911), by Frank E. Martin, George M. Davis, Underwood & Underwood, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and Brown and Company Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• Checkered romance of two generations (Brunt's, 1914), by M. L. Theiss-Whaley and Brunt & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• Firebrands (Little, Brown, and Company, 1911), by Frank E. Martin, George M. Davis, Underwood & Underwood, Mass.) University Press (Cambridge, and Brown and Company Little (page images at HathiTrust)

• Travers : a story of the San Francisco earthquake (Frederick A. Stokes, 1908), by Sara Dean, W. Herbert Dunton, and Frederick A. Stokes Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Bank Director's Son: A Real and Intensely Interesting Revelation of City Life (Philadelphia: E.E. Barclay and A.R. Orton, 1852), by George Lippard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Old Saint Paul's: A tale of the plague and the fire. (George Routledge, 1841), by William Harrison Ainsworth, Hablot Knight Browne, and John Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Saint Paul's : a tale of the plague and the fire (Hugh Cunningham, Saint Martin's Place, Trafalgar Square, 1841), by William Harrison Ainsworth, John Franklin, and Zaehnsdorf (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old St. Paul's (G. Newnes, 1903), by William Harrison Ainsworth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old Saint Paul's; a tale of the plague and the fire. (G. Routledge, 1865), by William Harrison Ainsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Saint Paul's; a tale of the plague & the fire. (J. M. Dent;, 1911), by William Harrison Ainsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Saint Paul's : a tale of the plague and the fire (Stereotyped for H. L. Williams, 1846), by William Harrison Ainsworth and John Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)

• St. Dunstan's clock : a story of 1666. (Macmillan, 1893), by E. Ward (page images at HathiTrust)

• Barriers burned away. (Dodd & Mead, 1872), by Edward Payson Roe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Trentworthy. A tale of the great fire of Chicago. (Rand, McNally & company, 1889), by John McGovern (page images at HathiTrust)
• Barriers burned away. (Collier, 1902), by Edward Payson Roe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Barriers burned away (Dodd Mead, and Co., 1900), by Edward Payson Roe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Barriers burned away (Dodd & Mead, 1873), by Edward Payson Roe (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Year When Stardust Fell (Philadelphia and Toronto: J. C. Winston Co., c1958), by Raymond F. Jones, illust. by James Heugh and Alex Schomburg
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Purple Cloud, by M. P. Shiel (Gutenberg text)

• The Earthquake: A Romance of London in 1907 (London: E. Grant Richards, 1906), by W. Holt-White (at Toronto Public Library)
• The Tremendous Event (New York: Macaulay, c1922), by Maurice Leblanc, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Witness, by Margaret Johnson (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Checkered romance of two generations (Brunt's, 1914), by M. L. Theiss-Whaley and Brunt & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Caverns Below, by Stanton A. Coblentz, illust. by Frank R. Paul (Gutenberg ebook)

• Travers : a story of the San Francisco earthquake (Frederick A. Stokes, 1908), by Sara Dean, W. Herbert Dunton, and Frederick A. Stokes Company (page images at HathiTrust)

• Poinsettia (s.n.], 1907), by Charles Wilder Small (page images at HathiTrust)

• O terremoto de Lisboa : romance original (Livraria Editora de Mattos Moreira, 1874), by M. Pinheiro Chagas (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Red Dust (as published in Amazing Stories, January 1927), by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Mad Planet (as published in the Argosy, June 12, 1920), by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg text)

• The Good Seed, by Mack Reynolds, illust. by Wallace Wood (Gutenberg ebook)
• San Isidro, by Schuyler Crowninshield (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tom Pinder, Foundling: A Story of the Holmfirth Flood, by D. F. E. Sykes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Die Osternacht. Zweite Abtheilung (in German), by Leopold Schefer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Die Osternacht. Erste Abtheilung (in German), by Leopold Schefer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Vlci proti Mustangům (in Czech), by František Omelka (Gutenberg ebook)

• A Town Is Drowning, by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth (Gutenberg ebook)

• Through mighty waters saved. A romance of the Johnstown destruction, May 31, 1889 (Laird & Lee, 1889), by Duke Bailie (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Naked Storm (published under "Simon Eisner" pseudonym; New York: Lion Book, 1952), by C. M. Kornbluth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Tides of Barnegat, by Francis Hopkinson Smith (Gutenberg text)
• The tides of Barnegat (C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), by Francis Hopkinson Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tides of Barnegat (Down the Shore Pub., 2001), by Francis Hopkinson Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maelstrom (2001), by Peter Watts (PDF at rifters.com)

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• Calamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential Risk (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2021), by Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods
  • HTML with commentary at umn.edu
  • PDF files with commentary at Proect MUSE
• Tragic Story of America's Greatest Disaster: Tornado, Flood and Fire in Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska and Mississippi Valley (Chicago: J. S. Ziegler, c1913), by Marshall Everett (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
• Catastrophe and Social Change, Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster (Columbia University doctoral dissertation; 1920), by Samuel Henry Prince (Gutenberg text)
• Chaos and Creation: An Introduction to Quantavolution in Human and Natural History, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)
• The Disasters Darwinism Brought to Humanity, by Hârun Yahya (multiple formats at harunyahya.info)
• The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities (2 volumes; London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; Edinburgh: Hunter, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guidelines for the preparation of state emergency welfare services plans : natural disasters, civil disorders, enemy-caused disasters. (U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social and Rehabilitation Service, Community Services Administration, 1972), by United States. Community Services Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• International relief in action, 1914-1943 (The Herald Press, 1944), by Hertha Kraus and Philadelphia Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unscheduled events. (Disaster Research Center of the Dept. of Sociology, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, The Ohio State University., 1967), by Ohio State University. Disaster Research Center (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catastrophe and social change, based upon a sociological study of the Halifax disaster (New York, 1920), by Samuel Henry Prince (page images at HathiTrust)
• From earthquake, fire and flood (Scribner, 1957), by Ronald Hewitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Surgical philosophy in mass casualty management : with detailed notes on practical care (Thomas, 1960), by Warner F. Bowers and Carl Wilson Hughes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Disaster nursing. (Littlefield, Adams, 1963), by Frances Crouch Nabbe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social organization under stress; a sociological review of disaster studies. (National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1963), by Allen Hoistington Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur kenntnis der mesozoischen Equisitales Schwedens (Almqvist & Wiksells boktryckeri-a.-b., 1908), by T. G. Halle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Disaster preparedness. ([Washington], 1969), by United States Department of the Air Force (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A proposed nationwide natural disaster warning system (NADWARN) : report with background information. (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Environmental Science Services Administration, 1965), by United States. Natural Disaster Warning Survey Group and United States. Environmental Science Services Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• The role of the nurse in disaster (American Nurses' Association, 1960), by American Nurses Association. Special Committee on Nursing in National Defense (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to instruction on Nursing in disaster (Michigan Office of Civil Defense, 1957), by Detroit and Tri County League for Nursing. Committee on Nursing Care of Mass Casualties and Michigan Office of Civil Defense (page images at HathiTrust)
• Natural disaster survey report. (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration., in the 20th century), by United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Environment: problems, solutions & emergency preparedness. (Defense Civil Preparedness Agency, 1972), by United States. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Guide for the primary care physician (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services, 1995), by American Academy of Pediatrics. Work Group on Disasters, Crystal Milazzo, Brian Flynn, Stanford B. Friedman, United States Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Center for Mental Health Services (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disaster plan for the Bentley Library (Bentley Historical Library], 1977), by Ann Flowers and James W. Craven (page images at HathiTrust)
• Animals in disaster independent study course (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1998), by Emergency Management Institute (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disaster mental health services : a guidebook for clinicians and administrators (National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, 1998), by Bruce H. Young, Fred D. Gusman, Matthew J. Friedman, Josef I. Ruzek, and Julian D. Ford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Guidelines for CDC international travelers (U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, 1987), by Centers for Disease Control (U.S.). International Health Program Office, Centers for Disease Control (U.S.). Epidemiology Program Office, and Centers for Disease Control (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disaster--preparedness and relief; a manual for chapters. (The American national Red cross, 1930), by American National Red Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
• When disaster strikes; manual of preparedness and relief. (The American national Red cross, 1934), by American National Red Cross. Dept. of Civilian Relief (page images at HathiTrust)
• Public Health Service disaster assistance report, July 1967-June 1970. (Rockville, Md., 1971), by United States. Division of Emergency Health Services and George T. Furlong (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to help cases of distress: a handy reference book for almoners and others (Charity Organisation Society, etc., 1895), by C. S. Loch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disasters and the American Red cross in disaster relief (Russell Sage foundation, 1918), by J. Byron Deacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great disasters and horrors in the world's history (C. H. Brinker., 1890), by Allen Howard Godbey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Health mobilization series. I. [Health manpower] (The Division :, 1964), by United States. Public Health Service. Division of Health Mobilization (page images at HathiTrust)
• Your chance to live (Defense Civil Preparedness Agency, 1972), by Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development and Tamara C Lowery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catastrophe and social change, based upon a sociological study of the Halifax disaster (Columbia university; [etc., etc.], 1920), by Samuel Henry Prince (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il piu ́grande disastro del mondo : storia completa degli orrori del terremoto in Italia ... (s.n.] ;, 1909), by J. Martin Miller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Interesting and authentic narratives of the most remarkable shipwrecks, fires, famines, calamities, providential deliverances, and lamentable disasters on the seas, in most parts of the world (S. Andrus, 1850), by R. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Physics of the infectious diseases : comprehending a discussion of certain physical phenomena in connection with the acute infectious diseases (Jansen, McClurg, 1878), by Cornelius Ambrose Logan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catastrophe and social change, based upon a sociological study of the Halifax disaster. (AMS Press, 1968), by Samuel Henry Prince (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Review of combined trauma: research, clinical management and planning (U.S. Public Health Service, 1966), by inc Bio-Dynamics, United States Public Health Service, and United States Office of Civil Defense (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Worcester County tornado ; a medical study of the disaster. Final report submitted Sept. 1, 1954 ([Washington], 1955), by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Disaster Studies, Henry Jacob Bakst, and Massachusetts General Hospital (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nursing aspects of health mobilization. ([Washington?], 1961), by United States Public Health Service and United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (page images at HathiTrust)
• When disaster strikes: suggestions for Red Cross chapters. (American National Red Cross, 1924), by American Red Cross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transcript of hearings held in Los Angeles December 23 and 30, 1963, January 28, 1964 (State Printing Office?, 1964), by California. Legislature. Assembly. Committee on General Research. Subcommittee on the Baldwin Hill Disaster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• When disaster strikes : procedure for Red Cross chapters. (The American National Red Cross, 1929), by American National Red Cross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An introduction to methodological problems of field studies in disasters (National Academy of Sciences National Research Council, 1956), by Lewis M. Killian (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mass care in disaster. (American National Red Cross, 1951), by American National Red Cross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalog of dam disasters, failures and accidents (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation ;, 1968), by Arnold O Babb and T. W Mermel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Preparing the hospital plant for emergencies (For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1968), by United States. Division of Emergency Health Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• Date with disaster : a model for multi-hospital preparedness (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1971), by United States. Office of Emergency Preparedness, United States. Division of Emergency Health Services, United States Office of Civil Defense, and Hospital Council of Southern California (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Civil defense activities for local chambers of commerce : a handbook of actions and procedures for establishing the role of the local chamber of commerce in the community civil defense program (Washington, D.C. : The Dept., 1969., 1969), by United States. Business and Defense Services Administration and United States Office of Civil Defense (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medical planning for disaster casualty control. ([Washington, 1962), by United States Department of the Air Force (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prototype hospital; fallout protected. ([Washington, 1960), by United States. Public Health Service. Division of Hospital and Medical Facilites (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Spicilegium of by-spel van vorstelycke treur-gevallen (Gedruckt by Symon Onder de Linde ..., 1683), by Lambert van den Bos, Symon onder de Linde, and Arnold Houbraken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report submitted by the Legislative Research Council relative to minimization of damage from hurricanes and other natural disasters. (Wright & Potter Print. Co., Legislative Printers, 1956), by Massachusetts. General Court. Legislative Research Bureau and Massachusetts. General Court. Legislative Research Council (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Teacher's manual for Your chance to live ([Defense Civil Preparedness Agency], 1972), by Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, Tamara C. Lowery, and United States. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical examples of ecological disaster. (Harmonon-Hudson, N.Y. : Hudson Institute, 1963., 1963), by Jean M. Ingersoll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Northwest disaster : avalanche and fire (Binfords & Mort, 1960), by Ruby El Hult (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proposals for State action : a response to the Los Angeles riots ([publisher not identified], 1959), by California. Legislature. Assembly and Jesse M Unruh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History, by Allen Howard Godbey (Gutenberg ebook)
• Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror, by Samuel Fallows, Richard Linthicum, and Trumbull White (Gutenberg ebook)
• The necessity of a constant readiness for death. A discourse, preached at Hartford North-Meeting-House, May 25th, 1766. Occasioned by that alarming providence, the sudden demolition of the school-house, by gun-powder; whereby about thirty persons were wounded, six of whom are since dead. / By the Reverend John Devotion, A.M. of Say-Brook; providentially present. ; [Five lines of quotations] (Hartford: : Printed and sold by Thomas Green, at the Heart and Crown, opposite the State-House., [1766]), by John Devotion and Edward Dorr (HTML at Evans TCP)

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