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Matt Podbury

Maplecroft | Home | About Maplecroft | Media Room | News | China, India, Philippines an... - 0 views

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risks resilience ib_geog2009 Hazards and disasters Vulnerability Adjustments

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  • Matt Podbury on 26 Aug 11
     
    Economic Risk V's Disaster - Great resource for IB Hazards and Disasters module.
Ewa Wink

Capital Weather Gang - Forecasting hurricanes: Part 1 - 1 views

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  • Ewa Wink on 14 Nov 11
     
    Posted at 11:35 AM ET, 08/19/2010 Forecasting hurricanes: Part 1 By Steve Tracton How good (or bad) are today's forecasts? * Sun & warmth: Full Forecast | Yesterday's rain totals * This is the first of a two-part series on hurricane forecasting. Part 1 details how reliable forecasts are expected to be when (and if?) the 2010 tropical season finally picks up steam. Part 2, to appear next week, will look at ongoing research into the development of tropical systems and the prospects for improved forecasts. Hurricane Fran, Sept. 5, 1996. Satellite image by NASA. As reported in an earlier post by CWG's Greg Postel, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest update of its 2010 seasonal hurricane forecast calls for a significant chance that the remainder of the season will be very active, perhaps one of the most active on record. Whatever the number of tropical storms and hurricanes -- collectively referred to here as tropical cyclones (TC) -- most seasonal hurricane forecasts justifiably caution that it's impossible to reliably forecast when and where an individual storm might develop, nor its intensity and whether it will make landfall, before a storm even exists. The specifics of genesis, strength, size and track of TCs fall in the domain of daily weather. As such, predictability is limited in theory and practice from a few hours to about a week or two at most (no one really knows for sure). These specifics, of course, are precisely those which are required by emergency managers who, for example, must decide if and when to order evacuations, and those which ultimately determine the impact of a TC on lives and property. So, what are the current capabilities and limitations in the accuracy and utility of TC forecasts? The foundation of the TC prediction and warning process is the track forecast. If the track forecast is off, so too will be predictions of other parameters, such as wind speed and direction, rainfall, and storm surge relative to landf
Richard Allaway

Disasters of the Week - 1 views

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  • Richard Allaway on 09 Dec 08
     
    Includes 'Technological Disasters'
  • Richard Allaway on 09 Dec 08
     
    Includes both 'Natural Hazards' and 'Technological Disasters'
johnwilliambray

Hurricane Katrina DVD Documentary, from Miami to New Orleans and Biloxi. - YouTube - 2 views

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Hazards and disasters Characteristics of hazards Risk and risk assessment Human hazard Responses Adjustments Vulnerability Disasters hurricanes katrina

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    video of the storm surge and changes during main storm event
Ian Gabrielson

Humans to blame for scale of devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan, say experts | South ... - 1 views

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    ""You have a very intense event hitting a very susceptible part of the world. It's that combination of nature and man," said MIT tropical meteorology professor Kerry Emanuel. "If one of those ingredients were missing, you wouldn't have a disaster.""
Jen Currie

Fukushima disaster: it's not over yet - 0 views

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  • Jen Currie on 27 Sep 11
     
    About life in Japan 5 months after the earthquake.
Gemma Archer

BBC News - Tsunami hits north-eastern Japan after massive quake - 0 views

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  • cars, ships and even buildings being swept away by a vast wall of water
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      Gemma Archer on 11 Mar 11
       
      primary effects
  • sparked fires in several areas including Tokyo
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      Gemma Archer on 11 Mar 11
       
      secondary effects
  • A tsunami warning was extended across the Pacific to include the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Hawaii, the Pacific coast of Russia and North and South America.
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      Gemma Archer on 11 Mar 11
       
      responses
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  • Strong waves hit Japan's Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, officials said, damaging dozens of coastal communities. Kyodo news agency said a 10-metre wave (33ft) struck the port of Sendai in Miyagi prefecture.
  • massive surge of debris-filled water sweeping away buildings, cars and ships and reaching far inland.
  • Motorists could be seen trying to speed away from the wall of water.
  • Farmland around Sendai was submerged and the waves pushed cars across the runway of the city's airport.
  • Kyodo said at least 15 people had been killed in the earthquake and tsunami. It was believed the death toll could rise significantly.
  • The earthquake also triggered a number of fires, including one at an oil refinery in Ichihara city in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo, engulfing storage tanks.
  • here were reports of about 20 people injured in Tokyo after the roof of a hall collapsed on to a graduation ceremony.
  • Residents and workers in Tokyo rushed out of apartment buildings and office blocks and gathered in parks and open spaces as aftershocks continued to hit.
  • In central Tokyo, Jeffrey Balanag said he was stuck in his office in the Shiodome Sumitomo building because the elevators had stopped working.
  • Bullet train services to northern Japan were halted, rapid transit in Tokyo was suspended and some nuclear power plants automatically shut down.
  • Prime Minister Naoto Kan
  • televised address,
Richard Allaway

BRICs and N11 countries top Maplecroft's natural disaster risk ranking - France, Italy,... - 1 views

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  • Richard Allaway on 23 Jul 10
     
    BRICs and N11 countries top Maplecroft's natural disaster risk ranking - France, Italy, USA at "high risk"
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