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A sobering new report on California’s seismic vulnerabilities said that up to 3.5 million homes could be damaged if an 8.0 earthquake ruptured on the San Andreas fault.
The new estimate, from the data firm CoreLogic, is based on a theoretical rupture of the entire San Andreas fault, which passes through Los Angeles County…
By Keli Pirtle
After deadly tornadoes struck the Southeast in March, NOAA researchers for the first time successfully captured aerial photos and video of storm damage from hard-to-reach locations using remote-controlled, uncrewed aircraft.
The new imagery helped the community’s response and recovery efforts and enabled forecasters to more accurat…
Mapping tool visualizes anticipated flood effects, aiding preparation for coastal storms
A NOAA flood exposure risk mapping tool that was developed in New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania has now been expanded to cover coastal areas along the entire U.S. East Coast and Gulf of Mexico. The Coastal Flood Exposure Mapper, a deliverable of Presi…
Universitarios implementan y desarrollan dispositivos autónomos inteligentes de monitoreo espacial para el estudio de zonas en riesgo ante desastres naturales, que permitan implementar programas de conservación de reservas ecológicas y gestión del medio ambiente.
El objetivo es tener un sistema de información en tiempo real, para realizar operaciones e…
By Risa Palm, Georgia State University and Toby W. Bolsen, Georgia State University
Advertisers understand that providing consumers with the facts will not sell products. To get people to stop and pay attention, successful advertising delivers information simply and with an emotional hook so that consumers notice and, hopefully, make a purchase.…
More than half of FEMA’s flood maps rely on decades-old data. Now, a group of Texas researchers is tackling the problem with a $3 million grant and crowdsourced data.
By Amal Ahmed
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Two years ago, Texans learned that truth the hard way when Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas coast. The storm was classified as a 500-year storm. But neighb…
By Monica Allen
Extreme heat kills more Americans than any other weather event, but not everyone’s risk is the same. Within the same city, some neighborhoods can be up to 20°F hotter than others and, due largely to the practice of historic redlining — discriminatory, race-based lending and housing policies in the 1930s — these hot spots…
This book was produced to mark the end of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), a United Nations initiative to reduce the negative effects of natural disasters.
This volume communicates solutions to the problems associated with natural disasters, stimulating discussion and improvements in methods of protecting people and prop…
Hurricane Ian left an extraordinarily broad path of destruction across much of South Florida. That was evident in reports from the ground, but it also shows up in satellite data. Using a new method, our team of spatial and environmental analysts was able to quickly provide a rare big picture view of damage across the entire state.
By using satelli…
After years of promising, Cal Fire has released new, updated maps to help residents determine if they live in a risky wildfire area.
The interactive Wildfire Hazard Severity Zone map is more than a decade in the making and comes after groups voiced criticism of Cal Fire, calling the department’s antiquated maps “pretty inexcusable.”
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Earthquakes, volcanic activity, and sediment flux can trigger underwater landslides known as submarine slides, which can translate to tsunamis on the surface. Megaslides are extreme versions of these underwater events. The sixth-largest recorded megaslide occurred in the Surveyor Fan in the Gulf of Alaska around 1.2 million years ago. It was at lea…
Flood risk maps are an essential public good. Indeed, many countries like the United Kingdom already offer flood risk mapping.Canada committed to a public flood risk mapping portal in the 2023 budget. However, despite the increasing frequency and impact of large, catastrophic floods, we still have a sparse patchwork of flood risk maps at municipal and p…
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Los estudios hidrológicos, requieren cada vez mayor uso de modelos matemáticos como herramienta que apoya la planificación y la toma de decisión en aras de la implementación de la Gestión integrada del recurso hídrico en las cuencas hidrográficas.
Estos modelos posibilitan la cuantificación de los diferentes procesos que tienen…
There is a growing interest and relevance in the interaction between science and society reflected in the economic, social and public-policy aspects of hazards. This distinction is expressed by the word 'risk' (which incorporates both hazards, their consequences and their likelihood), which covers a wider scope than the word 'hazard'. The main differenc…
The workshop will address the status and prospects for advancing climate prediction, monitoring, and diagnostics, with emphasis on five major themes:
Improving climate prediction tools and techniques through dynamical and statistical models and methods, forecaster practices and protocols, data and model improvements, and scientific concepts.
Pr…