Disaster Zone Podcast

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Lori Peek, a professor in the Department of Sociology and director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder is the guest for this podcast. She points to some of the excellent resources that the Natural Hazards Center has to offer.

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Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 14, 2023

TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: Artificial Intelligence in Natural Hazard Modeling Severe Storms, Hurricanes, Floods, and Wildfire. Note that the full report is 61 pp. The Diva considers this a must read for people in the emergency management field and expects that this subject will be an important one in 2024.

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DisasterDoc

JUNE 28, 2021

Building collapse is a common phenomenon associated with multiple disasters, including those caused by so-called “natural hazards” such as earthquakes and tsunamis and landslides, as well as “technological hazards” such. The post When Buildings Collapse appeared first on DisasterDoc.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 3, 2025

There have recently been some natural hazard events of extraordinary size and power, but they are no more than curtain raisers. Natural hazard impacts are becoming fiercer, more extensive and more frequent. We must also grapple with complexity and intersection with other forms of threat and hazard.

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Emergency Planning

MAY 14, 2024

Migration, conflict, climate extremes, proliferating technological failure and associated consequences all pose this kind of threat. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. Hence, public discourse and concerns could conceivably change overnight (as they did in the USA after "Nine-Eleven" in 2001).

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

b) Technological disasters, caused by malfunction or unintended consequences of technology. Na-techs' (natural-technological disasters) appear in this category (Krausmann et al. A more up-to-date rationale might state that "there is nothing more natural than human propensity to cause disasters." Krausmann, E.,

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everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

There has also been a rise in geophysical events including earthquakes and tsunamis which have killed more people than any of the other natural hazards under review in this report. Now, technology can go a long way in automating these answers and making you a more resilient organization. Where is your inventory?

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