The phrase
"damage assessment" refers to the process of evaluating and determining the extent or impact of harm or loss caused by an incident, such as a disaster or an accident. It involves analyzing and estimating the damages suffered in order to inform decision-making and recovery efforts.
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This will be relevant both for loss and
damage assessment in climate change negotiations, and for the assessment of trends in extreme weather events in the context of other drivers of environmental change.
Teachers will be responsible for the replacement price, collection fees and
damage assessment on materials borrowed from this library card.
Laser scanners provide detailed
damage assessments of a home hit by a rockfall during the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake.
The National Weather Service
conducts damage assessment surveys after tornadoes are reported to determine if a tornado actually touched down, and i... Read More
Estimated restoration times for impacted areas are being developed as information
from damage assessment and repair crews are reported.
«State officials have indicated they are confident that once it
completes damage assessments in all areas, it will far exceed the state's per capita threshold of $ 26.7 million,» the lawmakers wrote in the letter signed by Reps. Richard Hanna, Bill Owens, Chris Gibson, Tom Reed and Paul Tonko.
«Subsequent
battle damage assessment revealed that several structures in the target area were engulfed in fire as a result of the strikes and a few BHT survivors were seen scampering from the location.
Representation and defense of former shipbuilding client involving natural
resource damage assessment proceedings and damages claims of federal, state and tribal trustees under CERCLA.
Since 2013 there is a national framework of
damage assessment criteria for the classification of WOVs which all the States and Territories are more or less aligned to.
These maps, which are based upon aircraft observations, are invaluable for preparation of forecasts before landfall and for
damage assessment after landfall.
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An eight - member team from the Western Area Power Authority, an Energy Department agency, assisted with
initial damage assessments in Puerto Rico and has been redeployed to St. Thomas.
Travel Agent brings you the most recent
hotel damage assessments in the Caribbean following the recent passage of Hurricane Irma.
With Hurricane Maria making landfall in the Caribbean throughout the week, Travel Agent breaks down the latest island - by - island
damage assessment reports we have so far and tells you where the storm is heading to next.
FTI Consulting has an unparalleled strength and breadth of expertise in this area with a team of experts who have the skills and experience required to
provide damages assessments in complex commercial and investment treaty disputes.
His vast experience in construction claims services includes: the preparation and defense of construction delay and disruption claims through the use of detailed schedule analyses techniques, providing litigation support, issue analysis,
damage assessments as well as productivity analyses.
Some 18,000 poor families in the worst - hit north have lost their food crops, according to preliminary
damage assessments by Haiti's agriculture ministry.
Companies Citizens had hired to provide independent claims adjusters for
post-storm damage assessments supplied far fewer adjusters than Citizens requested.
A
total damage assessment for Houston and the surrounding area is yet to be calculated as storms continue to make cleanup difficult.
This week's release of regional
Brexit damage assessments from the government showed just how punishing the effect of a hard Brexit would be on many of the poorer communities which voted Leave.
A statement by the Air Force said follow - up battle
damage assessment confirmed that the air attack was successful as shown by the enclosed classified footage of the operation.
«We visited numerous homes and businesses, were in direct contact with more than 100 impacted residents and passed several
individual damage assessments along to FEMA and state officials,» she said.
While the Trump administration has said it will take weeks to complete a
comprehensive damage assessment for Puerto Rico, early estimates suggest that an effective response for the commonwealth and the U.S. Virgin Islands would be on par with what it will cost to rebuild from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
One preliminary
damage assessment puts the U.S. damage from these three storms at $ 207 billion, with another $ 25 billion in non-U.S. damage.
In the wake of the November 2013 Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines, the Yolanda GeoNode team used the collected more than 72 layers of geospatial data,
including damage assessments and situation reports by local and international agencies.
Craifaleanu, Iolanda - Gabriela and Borcia, I. S. (2011): Instrumental intensity as a tool for
post-earthquake damage assessment: validation for the strong Vrancea earthquakes of August 1986 and May 1990.
It is not known yet precisely how much damage Hurricane Harvey and the associated flooding inflicted on the Exxon Mobil Corporation's Baytown and Beaumont facilities; a
full damage assessment has yet to take place.
Accident reconstruction & causation analysis, human factors, occupant dynamics & biomechanics, occupant protection system evaluations (including: seat belts, airbags, and vehicle interior design), time - position - speed & delta - v calculations, airbag tank testing, computer - aided reconstructions & simulations, product defects, accident scene and
vehicle damage assessments, transportation issues.
Other duties of an Emergency Management Specialist include ensuring that emergency procedures are compliant with federal and state standards, serving as a liaison to various departments, staying informed to the likelihood of an impending disaster and working with officials to
prepare damage assessments after an emergency.
Halihan added: «The two [issues] that are currently unclear are
damage assessment of what a large quake would do on a particular fault and how liability would be assessed.
FTA continues to work collaboratively with FEMA to
conduct damage assessments and cost - validation work in the hardest - hit parts of New York and New Jersey, as well as other regions where transit was impacted.
For instance, in heat - stress - prone Anhui province, where rice growers used to wait for months until insurance companies
complete damage assessments, a so - called temperature index insurance service was introduced in 2009.