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Category: Natural Hazards
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One of my favorite ways of wasting a couple minutes is reading the local "Go Blue Ridge Dot Net." Here is an example: An earthquake rocked the area at the Watauga-Caldwell line early this morning, prompting calls about explosions and other inquiries to the Watauga Communications Center, who dispatched fire and other emergency units before…
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If you have a scientific result worth sharing, take the effort to share it in an accessible way.
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Short answer: "if the NFIP was a private insurance company it would no longer be in business." Carolyn Kousky and Leonard A. Shabman: Flood insurance in the United States is offered through the federal National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The 2005 hurricane season sent the program massively into debt to the US Treasury. As the deficit…
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With that title we're trying to boost our traffic and maybe even get Typepad to crash: In 2011 Steven Schlozman, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, went on a late-night radio show and said he had recently discovered a paper about a mysterious disease, called Ataxic Neurodegenerative Satiety Deficiency syndrome, written by…
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I've been noticing them all the time! The number of tornadoes recorded by the National Climatic Data Center has increased in recent years, but that doesn’t mean there have been more twisters. “The changes there are huge but almost certainly due to reporting changes,” said Harold Brooks, a scientist with the National Severe Storms Laboratory…
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My parents called last night and said they got a little rain yesterday. Here's the 24 hour cumulative rainfall estimates. *Someone will get the dual meaning.
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Don't you hate it when the weatherman gets it wrong? Apparently, so does Kim Jong Un. According to state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun, the North Korean leader has been touring meteorological facilities in his country complaining that there are "too many incorrect" weather forecasts. As further proof of the supreme leader's extreme displeasure, the Rodong Sinmun…
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Ohio is leading a group of drilling states working with seismology experts at energy companies, government agencies and universities across the U.S. on how best to detect and regulate human-induced earthquakes. How do you regulate an earthquake? The initiative follows Ohio's discovery in April of a probable link between the drilling practice called hydraulic fracturing,…
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Seeing this post on Vox got me thinking – I wonder how housing prices vary in response to disaster risk when the risk is forecasted over a longer term rather than a shorter term? I've read a bit of the literature on the housing price response to hurricane risk and climate change-based flood risk (from…
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