Sentences with phrase «damage infrastructure built»

But Cuomo, in formally announcing his veto, said al - Qaida has threatened to target such facilities and superstorm Sandy was powerful enough to damage infrastructure built to survive 100 - year storms.

Not exact matches

Harvey is on track to become one of the costliest storms in U.S. history, with an estimates ranging from around $ 75 billion to $ 95 billion in damages, accounting for property damage to cars, homes, commercial buildings and infrastructure.

And they don't damage buildings, vehicles or infrastructure.

Prolonged afterslip could delay post-earthquake recovery by continuing to cause damage to critical infrastructure built across the fault such as rapid transit and utilities, said Lienkaemper, who noted that better forecasts of afterslip «can be used to plan temporary and final repairs to rapid transit tracks, water, gas and data lines.»

Kathmandu's basin of soft sediments helped amplify low - frequency waves, as seen in its destructive effect on taller buildings, says Youssef Hashash, an earthquake engineer at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, and the lead author of a report published last week that documented the quake's damage to infrastructure.

Then came World War II, which left Japan with a damaged infrastructure and a determination from planners to build superior housing connected to sewers.

The study, led by the Berlin - based think - tank Global Climate Forum (GCF) and involving the University of Southampton, presents, for the first time, comprehensive global simulation results on future flood damages to buildings and infrastructure in coastal flood plains.

The total cost of each disaster includes insured and uninsured losses, including physical damages to buildings and infrastructure, along with factors like costs for businesses and damages to crops.

In an effort to understand how extreme weather causes structural damage, four Japanese organisations — the National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management (NILIM), the Building Research Institute, the University of Tokyo and the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University — have been developing a tornado simulator.

In relation to the current capital value of infrastructure and buildings in each country, the damage is reducing from natural catastrophes.

They range from improving earthquake forecasting and developing early - warning systems to understanding how to increase the resistance of existing buildings to damage and how to preserve electricity and water infrastructure.

Emanuel hopes that the study's results will help city planners and government officials to decide where and how to rebuild and fortify infrastructure, as well as whether to recode building standards to stand up to stronger storms and more damaging floods.

Adding pressure on Trump, scientists from the United States and other Arctic nations issued a report ahead of the meeting warning that the warming could lead to trillions of dollars worth of damage to buildings, roads and other infrastructure this century..

Changes in permafrost could cause significant impacts — for example, by causing erosion that damages buildings, roads, or other infrastructure, by causing shifts in ecosystems, and by contributing large amounts of carbon to the atmosphere.

They also want to make more forays into attributing actual impacts, like heat - related deaths and infrastructure damage, but that takes building partnerships between different disciplines, such as water management and epidemiology, which takes time.

Site conditions can modify the shaking of large earthquakes and control the damage to buildings and other infrastructure caused by the shaking.

An 8.8 - magnitude quake that struck Chile a little over a month later was stronger but ultimately did less damage because that country had buildings and other infrastructure built to withstand the temblors that frequently strike the seismically active country.

Explosions and other collateral damage destroys buildings and infrastructure around the battles that take place.

COSTA MAYA - Hurricane Wilma is now over Cancun making sever damage to buildings and infrastructure.

The agency is also reporting that 90 per cent of government buildings and business structures were damaged as well as 90 per cent of the electricity infrastructure.

The building was slightly damaged during the 2011 Washington D.C. earthquake, and the construction process required reworking of the original infrastructure.

It would mean substantial damage to existing infrastructure well before its «use by» date, and it will make entire drainage systems non functional even if building are still partly usable.

A restoration economy is primarily based on renewing the places we've already developed (buildings, infrastructure, brownfields, etc.) and on repairing damage done to natural resources along the way.

Thawing permafrost has potentially damaging consequences not just for greenhouse gas emissions, but also for the stability of buildings and infrastructure in high - latitude cities.

Water may become less scarce in regions that get more precipitation, but more precipitation will probably also increase flood risk; it may also raise the groundwater table, which could lead to damage to buildings and other infrastructure or to reduced agricultural productivity due to wet soils or soil salinization.

Across America, states, cities, and communities are taking steps to protect themselves from extreme weather and other climate impacts by updating building codes, adjusting the way they manage natural resources, investing in more resilient infrastructure, and planning for rapid recovery from damages that nonetheless occur.

Increased saltwater encroachment and damage to water and waste infrastructure not built to withstand saltwater exposure

Increased saltwater encroachment and damage to infrastructure not built to withstand saltwater exposure

Why not build better infrastructure to reduce damage?

Jochen Hinkel from the Global Climate Forum in Berlin and colleagues have compiled, for the first time, global simulation results on future flood damage to buildings and infrastructure on the world's coastal flood plains.

Northrop Grumman sees potential damage to billions in shoreline defense infrastructure, such as the imperiled drydock in Hampton Roads built to construct the next generation of aircraft carriers.

(Consider for example that when a single building is damaged in a town, economic and social infrastructure in the same town may be available to help rebuild and provide temporary shelter, etc..)

According to the Istanbul branch of the Environmental Engineers Chamber, the issuing of permits for buildings close to riverbanks without creating sufficient infrastructure was a major factor in the flood damage.

Answer: Your landlord's policy only covers damage to the building itself and to the building's infrastructure.

Led technical design standard for WASH, flood damaged school building infrastructure and storm / flood protection, saving 30 - 40 % of costs through making the design environmentally friendly and low cost

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