The Disaster Research Center And Its Activities

The Disaster Research Center (DRC) was established at the Ohio State University in 1963 and moved to the University of Delaware at the end of 1984. The Center was the first of its kind in the world and is the oldest in the United States. At the present time it is one of the extremely few research operations anywhere that maintains stand-by teams ready to launch immediate field studies of impending disasters and actual disaster impacts.