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Displaying 90 of about 291 resultsA report from the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) and the Standards Council of Canada (SCC) recommends the development of a new national standard of Canada on wind resilience to mitigate residential and small building property damage resulting from natural disasters in Canada.
High winds contributed in part to most natural ca…
By Tim Ellis
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Nine of the 10 metros with the lowest Natural Disaster Hazard Score ratings have lower home prices than the national median price of $287,400 in February. On the flip side, many of the most disaster-prone metros, including Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and New York are expensive coastal cities that home searchers are increasing…
This publication provides a view of New Zealand’s major hazard events of 2009, and the work of the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), GNS Science and other organizations in their efforts to reduce the risks and mitigate the effects of natural hazards, in New Zealand. It includes a description of the Natural Hazards Research P…
This report will attempt to catalogue and briefly discuss the immediate medical and long-term health effects of a natural disaster. Other topics such as the disruption of a community’s critical infrastructure, vulnerable groups within populations, and common misconceptions in disaster response will also be reviewed. Finally, mitigation and loss reductio…
The mysteries of severe weather in the southeastern U.S. — and why tornadoes kill and injure more people here than any other part of the country — will get an in-depth probe this spring, as researchers from 11 research institutions around the country gather at UAH for the second year of a major research campaign.
Coordinated by the National Oceanic and…
Annual aggregated risk to the U.S. property industry from severe convective storm (SCS) is as high as the risk from hurricanes, based on 2003-2015 Verisk Analytics’® Property Claim Services® (PCS) loss statistics. Average annual loss (in 2016 USD) from severe convective storms is $11.23 billion compared to $11.28 billion from hurricanes. If we consider…
On the night of February 19, tornadic thunderstorms tore through northern sections of San Antonio, Texas. Audrey Gagné and her husband were unknowingly heading toward them, on the way home from a trip to Dallas.
Although Gagné knew thunderstorms were in the forecast, she was not anticipating a threat from tornadoes, and the couple continued onward as l…
While the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017 calls for improving the prediction of tornadoes beyond one hour, research suggests that lead times in the one hour range may make the public less likely to respond with the same sense of urgency.
Recently, the Washington Post Capital Weather Gang wrote an interesting article about advanc…
Their research, which is being published in the journal Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, is the first ever threat calculation of tornadoes across the European continent.
The team analysed tornado reports from the European Severe Weather Database between 1950 and 2015, looking at the social and economic impact of tornadoes on the contine…
Experimental facilities and cyberinfrastructure will offer opportunities for natural hazards research to bolster community resilience
Recognizing the national need for resilience against multiple natural hazards, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has initiated a new chapter in hazards research with a $40-million investment in Natural Hazards Engine…
Every year, the United States foots a multi-billion dollar bill for the economic and insured losses incurred from natural disasters, reports The New York Times. In 2014, the costs reached $25-billion with certain regions of the country more prone to calamity than others. So what disasters are the most common and how much do they cost?
These New York Ti…
Washington — A new American Red Cross app helps children between the ages of 7 and 11 learn emergency preparedness while playing a game as monster characters.
The free app, “Monster Guard: Prepare for Emergencies,” is a game to teach children how to prevent emergencies such as home fires and how help them to stay safe if severe weather or natural disas…
Project to focus on community-based rural development
Tegucigalpa/Miami - As Caribbean weather becomes more extreme and unpredictable and natural disasters become more frequent, a new initiative in Honduras is being launched to help communities prepare and protect themselves.
Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez Alvarado signed an agreement Wedne…
After 162 people got killed because of a widespread disregard for tornado sirens, officials acknowledge better system needed to emphasise severity of a siren and suggested that a "non-routine warning mechanism" be developed to make it clear when a siren should be taken seriously, reports MSNBC.
"Honestly it was a bit of a disappointment that there were…
As UNISDR observed the International Day for Disaster Reduction, the Daily Star reviewed the capacity of Bangladesh in matters of tackling disaster risks. Over the last two decades, Bangladesh suffered from various natural hazards such as tropical cyclones, flood, tornadoes, earthquakes, riverbank erosion, salinity erosion, drought, arsenic contaminatio…