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Displaying 90 of about 119 resultsBy Jon Keeley
As of late October more than a dozen wildfires north of San Francisco had killed more than 40 people, burned approximately 160,000 acres and destroyed more than 7,000 structures.
This tragic loss of life and property is unprecedented in California. However, the fires are not anomalous events in terms of their size, intensity or the spee…
By Francie Diep
Pacific Standard spoke with three California residents, all of whom have interesting, well-supported, yet often little-known ideas for wildfire prevention strategies that go a bit deeper than tree removal. It remains to be seen whether their proposed policies are politically and financially feasible, but, in the meantime, the ideas rev…
By Emery Cowan
A decade ago, the Flagstaff City Council approved a new addition to the city's regulations: the Wildland Urban Interface Code. Adopted in February 2008, the code was one more line of defense in the ongoing efforts to address the city’s key vulnerability: wildfire.
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Ten years later, the code has proven itself highly effective, acco…
By Suzanne Barlyn
Southern California’s Getty Center, one of the world’s wealthiest art institutions, said it had survived a wildfire tearing through Los Angeles thanks to a disaster plan that has it ready for earthquakes as well.
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The museum has its own water tanks and has landscaped the complex in order to keep flames at bay.
“By putting all…
"The one thing we are sure about is that major earthquakes will happen again in this country. We know that not only the country but the entire region – Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria – is going to witness major earthquakes soon, because the cycle of earthquakes on the major fault line that passes through this country, is now active,” warns At…
By Mark Maund, Kim Maund, SueAnne Ware et al.
We should stop developing into high-risk areas, as the associated land clearing is too significant to our ecosystems and may still result in houses being lost.
Yesterday, the New South Wales government accepted all 76 recommendations from an independent inquiry into last summer’s devastating bush…
In 2023, Canada experienced a wildfire season of unprecedented scale, shattering the previous record set in 1995 by twofold, and contributing to insurable losses estimated to exceed $3 billion (according to CatIQ). Fires burned an estimated 18.5 million hectares—eight times greater than the average annual area burned over the past 25 years. Smoke a…
(From left to right: Robert Watkins, Margareta Wahlström and Najib Mikati)
By Denis McClean
BEIRUT, 20 October 2011 - One of the world’s most earthquake-prone and heavily urbanized countries, Lebanon, is bringing together 96 mayors and other leaders from over 80 cities and municipalities for two days this week to discuss progress on disaster risk red…
Wildfire, in one way or another, touches nearly everyone who lives in California and, increasingly, the West.
Those of us living in California last fall can recall awakening to orange skies and smoke that blanketed nearly the entire state. Even if our home was untouched, we experienced the effects of wildfire. We inhaled them. We swiped them off…
This meeting will address issues that arise when earthquake and tsunami disasters span national borders. A panel discussion of the recent El Mayor-Cucapah earthquake, the San Diego wildfires, and border challenges since the events of September 11, 2001, will kick off the meeting. Session topics include regional earthquake response planning and policy, m…
Previous tentative date: 12 Oct 2011
Previous title: CIEDM workshop on disaster reduction
As part of 10th anniversary of the tragic events on 11 September 2001, the US President Obama proclaimed on 31 August 2011 that this September is the National Preparedness Month. The objective of proclamation is to encourage all Americans to recognize the importa…
Proceedings of the European Colloquy on Regulatory Measures concerning the Protection of the Architectural Heritage against Natural Disasters in Europe(Ravello, Italy, 15-17 November 1989. Architectural heritage series no.2
This proceedings includes inter alia the specific outputs of the meeting which included: an inventory of the relevant technical, l…
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government's disaster prevention council has updated damage predictions in case an inland earthquake hits the Tokyo metropolitan area following the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 2011. According to Mainichi Daily News, the latest predictions, described as a "worst possible scenario" by the council, presents more realistic su…
By Diana Olick
Extreme weather, from floods to wildfires to high-category hurricanes, is causing ever more damage to neighborhoods. Now, new research shows that much of the nation’s housing stock may be underinsured against these disasters.
The cost of rebuilding has risen significantly in the past two years and continues to rise, due to a severe cons…
By Chris Folkman
Describing the scale and savagery of the wildfires currently burning in California is difficult to do, but a simple recounting of the statistics is a good starting point. They are thus:
At the time of writing, fifteen wildfires are now burning more than 280,000 acres (~113,000 hectares) in California. Collectively, they have laid wast…