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• 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 Harun Yahya (illustrated HTML at harunyahya.com)
• 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)

• The Economic Consequences of a Catastrophic Earthquake: Proceedings of a Forum (1992), by National Research Council Committee on Earthquake Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London, by Evelyn Everett-Green (Gutenberg text)

• Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire, by William Harrison Ainsworth (Gutenberg text)

• The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London, by Evelyn Everett-Green (Gutenberg text)

• The Doom of London, by Fred M. White, illust. by Warwick Goble (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)

• Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire, by William Harrison Ainsworth (Gutenberg text)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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 Tides of Barnegat, by Francis Hopkinson Smith (Gutenberg text)

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

• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Emergency Management (1980), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (text with commentary at textfiles.com)
• In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968), by United States Office of Civil Defense (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Building an Emergency Plan: A Guide for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999), ed. by Valerie Dorge and Sharon L. Jones (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Disaster Preparedness Tokyo (Tokyo Bousai): Let's Get Prepared (English version; ca. 2015), by Tokyo (Japan) (PDF files in Japan)

• Disaster Preparedness Tokyo (Tokyo Bousai): Let's Get Prepared (English version; ca. 2015), by Tokyo (Japan) (PDF files in Japan)

• Are You Ready? An In-Depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness (2004), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (PDF at fema.gov)
• Hurricanes, Unleashing Nature's Fury: A Preparedness Guide (2007), by United States National Weather Service (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Hurricanes, Unleashing Nature's Fury: A Preparedness Guide (2003), by United States National Weather Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• National Response Framework (second edition, 2013; with supplementary materials), by United States Department of Homeland Security (PDF files with commentary at fema.gov)

• Public Health Guide for Emergencies (second edition, 2008), by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (PDF files at jhsph.edu)

• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Community Members Can Do (2014), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Rescue Workers Can Do (2014), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope with Violence and Disasters: What Parents Can Do (2013), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (multiple formats with commentary at NIH)

• Uses of Risk Analysis to Achieve Balanced Safety in Building Design and Operations (1991), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Greater Safety at Sea, and International Tribunals for Questions of Collision: Paper Presented to the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations (New York: J. Polhemus, 1875), by David Dudley Field (page images at Gallica)

• The Disastrous Love Affair of Moon and Mars: Celestial Sex, Earthly Destruction, and Dramatic Sublimation in Homer's Odyssey, by Alfred De Grazia (PDF files at grazian-archive.com)

• Dull Disasters? How Planning Ahead Will Make a Difference (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, c2016), by Daniel J. Clarke and Stefan Dercon (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)
• Managing Major Events: Best Practices From the Field (2011), by Police Executive Research Forum (PDF at policeforum.org)
• Public Health Guide for Emergencies (second edition, 2008), by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (PDF files at jhsph.edu)
• Bolstering Critical Infrastructure Resilience After Superstorm Sandy: Lessons for New York and the Nation (Boston: Northeastern University, 2015), by Stephen E. Flynn (multiple formats at Northeastern)
• Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (c2012), by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF at ipcc-wg2.gov)
• Observing the Volcano World: Volcano Crisis Communication (Cham: SpringerOpen, c2018), ed. by Carina J. Fearnley, Deanne K. Bird, Katharine Haynes, William J. McGuire, and Gill Jolly (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)

• History of the Great Fires in Chicago and the West, by E. J. Goodspeed (page images at MOA)

• Comparison of an Eight-Hour Plant and a Ten-Hour Plant (Public health bulletin #106; Washington: GPO, 1920), by Josephine Goldmark and Mary Della Hopkins
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Ley de Accidentes del Trabajo: Estudio Crítico de la Española de 30 de Enero de 1900, de su Reglamento y Disposiciones Concordantes Comparadas con las Principales Legislaciones Extranjeras (in Spanish; Salamanca: Impr. de Calón, á cargo de A. Iglesias, 1903), by Hipólito González Rebollar, contrib. by Adolfo A. Buylla y G. Alegre
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Bolstering Critical Infrastructure Resilience After Superstorm Sandy: Lessons for New York and the Nation (Boston: Northeastern University, 2015), by Stephen E. Flynn (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• Proceedings of a Meeting, and Report of a Committee of the Citizens of Cleveland, in Relation to Steamboat Disasters on the Western Lakes, by Cleveland Committee on Steam Navigation on the western lakes (page images at MOA)

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