My name is George Pararas-Carayannis. My Disaster Pages provide a wealth of educational and scientific information regarding recent and historical, global and regional destructive tsunamis, devastating earthquakes, deadly volcanic eruptions (like Krakatoa), killer hurricanes and hurricane surges and man-made disasters. To complete these comprehensive Disaster Pages, I have added the additional major categories of Climate Change, Ocean Governance, Ocean Sustainability, and Disaster Archaeology. To facilitate review and searches of certain topics, I have included on the left top corner of each page, a Navigation Guide that links to a General Site Map with specific portals to numerous other of my pages. Furthermore, I am continuously adding new material and improving on the formatting of the older pages to make them more user-friendly. I have tried to separate the informational and educational sections of this website from the more technical, scientific reports. This website has been prepared for public information, as a community service, and in support of other Internet sites dealing with the same subjects.

I have no institutional sponsor and I am solely responsible for the accuracy of the contents of this website. For your information, for about 35 years, I was involved with Tsunami Research at the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics of the University of Hawaii and with scientific organizations of the U. S. Government. I served as Director of the World Data Center A-Tsunami, as Director of the International Tsunami Information Center (ITIC) (under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO and as Tsunami Advisor for the State of Hawaii's Civil Defense.