Jul 29 2011

Multiyear Drought in East Africa

Tag: Climate Change,Deserts,Drought,Food,Global Warming,Heat Waves,Meteorology,Natural Disasters — Tim Wall @ 9:57 am
Refugees seeking food security from drought and civil-war ravaged Somalia find floods instead.

Jul 27 2011

Landslides Kill Dozens After Downpours in S. Korea

Tag: Avalanches and Mudslides,Disaster Recovery,Floods,Natural Disasters,Rivers,Safety,Streams,Video — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 4:35 pm
Torrential rain pounding South Korea on Wednesday triggered landslides which killed 28 people and inundated hundreds of homes in the country's worst flood damage in decades.

Jun 29 2011

Smaller Salton Sea Silences Seismic Shocks

Tag: Conservation,Floods,Natural Disasters,Plate Tectonics,Rivers,Water — Tim Wall @ 10:04 pm
The periodic flooding of Southern California's Salton Sea in the past may have pressured small “stepover” faults to trigger the San Andreas. A drier Salton has eased that pressure.

Jun 24 2011

INCOMING! Asteroid to Narrowly Miss Earth on Monday

Tag: Asteroids,Astronomy,Disaster Preparedness,Disaster Scenarios,Disasters and Accidents,Doomsday,Meteorites,Meteors,Natural Disasters — Mark Thompson @ 4:20 pm
Astronomer Mark Thompson reports on the large asteroid that will pass within 8,000 miles from Earth and why we were given such short notice.

Jun 08 2011

Extreme Heat the New Norm

Tag: Carbon Emissions,Climate Change,Global Warming,Heat Waves,Natural Disasters — Tim Wall @ 5:03 pm
A Stanford study forecasts that in 20 to 60 years the coolest summer will still be hotter than any summer experienced in the second half of the 20th century.

Jun 07 2011

Did Weather Make the Plague Worse?

Tag: Drought,Floods,Meteorology,Natural Disasters,Weather — John D. Cox @ 11:31 am
A new study shows how regional climate differences controlled the intensity of outbreaks of plague in China.

Jun 02 2011

Frequent Tornadoes a Symptom of Jet Stream Change

Tag: Natural Disasters,Weather,Wind — Tim Wall @ 3:33 pm
The frequency of tornadoes this year indicates variability in the northward migration of the summer jet stream.

May 23 2011

Deadly Tornado Strikes Missouri Town

Tag: Disaster Preparedness,Disasters and Accidents,National Guard,Natural Disasters,Storms,Tornadoes — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 4:47 am
Less than a month after a tornado outbreak devastated the U.S. southeast, a deadly twister touched down in the town of Joplin on Sunday.

May 22 2011

Deadly Quakes Inside Continental Plates

Tag: Disaster Preparedness,Disaster Recovery,Disaster Scenarios,Earthquakes,Events,Natural Disasters,Tsunami — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 8:18 pm
Our perception of seismic risk is skewed into thinking earthquakes at plate boundaries are more deadly. We're wrong.

May 20 2011

Ultimate Game of Chance: Tracking the Rapture

Tag: Earthquakes,Geophysics,Natural Disasters,Plate Tectonics — Christina Reed @ 8:36 pm
A revision of earthquake risk is in store following tomorrow's day of rapture, but would have been even without the judgment based on new geophysical reports.
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