Sentences with phrase «about earthquake risks»
I write a lot about earthquake risks and how to limit losses if the worst happens.
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I'm on the road but can't avoid posting on the conviction of six scientists and a government functionary in Italy on criminal charges, with substantial prison sentences handed down, for statements made about earthquake risks not long before a moderate earthquake toppled buildings and killed 308 people in L'Aquila in 2009.
I think that's why it's so important for engineers to communicate and educate the public about earthquake risks.
Another approach is to be open about earthquake risk even if scientists aren't sure about the implications of recent seismic activity.
Not exact matches
When Hop thinks about the risks that could bring Tesla shares, and his sizable investment, crashing down, he worries about earthquakes and Musk stepping down as CEO.
«It's as much about reducing the risk of another earthquake hitting people so hard as it is about recovery.»
About 3 million people in Oklahoma and southern Kansas live with an increased risk of experiencing induced earthquakes.
«Now we can begin to reduce our uncertainty about how hard induced earthquakes shake the ground, and that should lead to more accurate estimates of the risks these earthquakes pose to society going forward.»
The rest of this special News & Analysis section examines what we have learned about radiation risks from previous exposures (p. 1504), improvements in safety since the boiling water designs at Fukushima (p. 1506), what to do with the wrecked reactors (p. 1507), and damage to research facilities from the earthquake (p. 1509).
«We have a choice when issuing earthquake warnings,» says study leader Sarah Minson, a seismologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, or USGS, in Menlo Park, Calif. «You have to think about your relative risk appetite: What is the cost of taking action versus the cost of the damage you're trying to prevent?»
• In a long letter posted in this week's issue of Science, Enzo Boschi, one of the Italian scientists sentenced to 6 years imprisonment for (in his words) «failing to give adequate advance warning to the population of L'Aquila, a city in the Abruzzo region of Italy, about the risk of the 6 April 2009 earthquake that led to 309 deaths.»
Research suggests that small quakes immediately raise the risk of a large quake by as much as a thousandfold, says Thomas Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, though the probability is still only about 1 percent per day and falls rapidly with time.
Previous examples were the conviction of Italian researchers for their failure to warn about the risk of a deadly earthquake in L'Aquila and the recent debate about the Stamina Foundation, which offers stem cell therapies that many scientists say aren't scientifically proven.
Producing a clear message about seismic risk remains a major challenge, Mulargia says, given that scientists are still unable to predict when, where, and with what strength the next earthquake will strike.
More broadly, the Pisagua event has seismologists rethinking some basic ideas about the risk of earthquakes in similar geological settings elsewhere — places with deep - diving crustal plates, such as Japan and Indonesia.
Learn more about Cascadia's societal risk from earthquakes.
About Youtuber The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is a nonprofit multi-disciplinary technical society of experts dedicated to reducing earthquake risk by advancing the science and practice of earthquake engineering, improving understanding of the impact of earthquakes on the physical, social, economic, political, and cultural environment, and advocating comprehensive and realistic measures for reducing the harmful effects of eaEarthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is a nonprofit multi-disciplinary technical society of experts dedicated to reducing earthquake risk by advancing the science and practice of earthquake engineering, improving understanding of the impact of earthquakes on the physical, social, economic, political, and cultural environment, and advocating comprehensive and realistic measures for reducing the harmful effects of eaearthquake risk by advancing the science and practice of earthquake engineering, improving understanding of the impact of earthquakes on the physical, social, economic, political, and cultural environment, and advocating comprehensive and realistic measures for reducing the harmful effects of eaearthquake engineering, improving understanding of the impact of earthquakes on the physical, social, economic, political, and cultural environment, and advocating comprehensive and realistic measures for reducing the harmful effects of earthquakes.
Despite the risks faced by residents of this state, only about 12 percent of Californians have earthquake insurance coverage.
The insured in question was also concerned about earthquakes, which are a small but non-zero risk in the area.
If you're concerned about the risk and want to protect yourself, you can certainly get an earthquake endorsement on your policy, generally for a few dollars a year.
Costas Synolakis, an expert in earthquake risk and engineering at the University of Southern California, wrote to me earlier this week about the challenge of reducing vulnerability to inevitable disasters.
Public concerns about the plant are addressed through that scene and at other points — including an interview with Lynn Sykes, an emeritus geology professor at Columbia University who insists the earthquake risk to the plant is greater than Entergy or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have calculated.
It says a lot about the scale of seismic risk in the region that this great earthquake (the strongest category) is not the predicted «big one.»
Here's the relevant line from Bilham, who's been voicing concerns about under - appreciated risk from great, but rare, earthquakes in crowding seismic hot zones around the world:
We've gone down a different path when talking about climate - change risk than we have with other risk topics like earthquakes and pandemics.
Does a country have in - house specialists or international advisers with sufficient training and experience to recognize and assess the country's earthquake risk and to think about the design strategies needed to reduce vulnerability in the face of that risk?
Once the earthquake problem is solved, we can go back to worrying about the potential risk for groundwater pollution.
There is some risk of severe storms that produce tornadoes but no other risks like earthquakes to worry about:
If you're concerned about the risk and want to protect yourself, you can certainly get an earthquake endorsement on your policy, generally for a few dollars a year.
A local agent will be familiar with your earthquake risks and can offer you advice about your various policy options.
About Youtuber The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is a nonprofit multi-disciplinary technical society of experts dedicated to reducing earthquake risk by advancing the science and practice of earthquake engineering, improving understanding of the impact of earthquakes on the physical, social, economic, political, and cultural environment, and advocating comprehensive and realistic measures for reducing the harmful effects of eaEarthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is a nonprofit multi-disciplinary technical society of experts dedicated to reducing earthquake risk by advancing the science and practice of earthquake engineering, improving understanding of the impact of earthquakes on the physical, social, economic, political, and cultural environment, and advocating comprehensive and realistic measures for reducing the harmful effects of eaearthquake risk by advancing the science and practice of earthquake engineering, improving understanding of the impact of earthquakes on the physical, social, economic, political, and cultural environment, and advocating comprehensive and realistic measures for reducing the harmful effects of eaearthquake engineering, improving understanding of the impact of earthquakes on the physical, social, economic, political, and cultural environment, and advocating comprehensive and realistic measures for reducing the harmful effects of earthquakes.
About Youtuber The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is a nonprofit multi-disciplinary technical society of experts dedicated to reducing earthquake risk by advancing the science and practice of earthquake engineering, improving understanding of the impact of earthquakes on the physical, social, economic, political, and cultural environment, and advocating comprehensive and realistic measures for reducing the harmful effects of eaEarthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) is a nonprofit multi-disciplinary technical society of experts dedicated to reducing earthquake risk by advancing the science and practice of earthquake engineering, improving understanding of the impact of earthquakes on the physical, social, economic, political, and cultural environment, and advocating comprehensive and realistic measures for reducing the harmful effects of eaearthquake risk by advancing the science and practice of earthquake engineering, improving understanding of the impact of earthquakes on the physical, social, economic, political, and cultural environment, and advocating comprehensive and realistic measures for reducing the harmful effects of eaearthquake engineering, improving understanding of the impact of earthquakes on the physical, social, economic, political, and cultural environment, and advocating comprehensive and realistic measures for reducing the harmful effects of earthquakes.