Sentences with phrase «tsunami risk»

The latter attitude would definitely have meant in Japan that essentially improved reserve power arrangements and other Tsunami risk mitigation measures had been put in place years ago.

Lack of attention to tsunami risk appears to have played a role in how the disaster unfolded elsewhere, as described in this report from Taro, Japan.

I encourage you to read «Tsunami - hit towns forgot warnings from ancestors,» a haunting and fascinating Associated Press story by Jay Alabaster describing centuries - old stone tablets warning of coastal tsunami risk that dot the Japanese coast ravaged by the great earthquake and resulting waves on March 11th.

After reading about Japan's aging, and largely forgotten, stone tablets warning of tsunami risk, a Dot Earth reader, «Mesa» from Telluride, Colo., posed an important question about the human capacity to act sensibly when facing future risks (some abbreviation expanded):

I've added a comment on the plant failures from Timothy Dixon, a professor in the geology department at the University of South Florida who holds a different view, asserting that the tsunami risk should long ago have been incorporated into worst - case planning scenarios for the reactors in the region.

US Geological Survey and the National Weather Service will give a presentation on tsunami risk in the South Bay.

«Tsunami scientists working for government agencies use tsunami return periods that are much too low in their calculations, leading them to underestimate the tsunami risk.

These islands, she reports, face their own serious tsunami risk.

But research in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction suggests other nations in known tsunami risk areas have not yet followed suit.

«Modeling future earthquake and tsunami risk in southwestern Japan.»

«Before the tsunami, people did not know about tsunami risk, so there was no socioeconomic segregation of tsunami - prone areas.

The world's first ranking of tsunami risks for major tourist beaches shows popular spots like Hawaii and Bali are most in danger

This is an extraordinarily important failure of a nuclear plant and the inadequate design — which utterly discounted tsunami risks, for instance — raises big questions about how best to manage the world's aging fleet of older nuclear plants — including the one here on the Hudson River — going forward.

Not exact matches

Because climate change is linked to an increase in severe weather events — like hurricanes, tsunamis and extreme temperatures — poorer countries that lack the infrastructure and resources to handle them leave millions at risk.

Dear EarthTalk: Is there any environmental risk from all that Japanese tsunami debris that is starting to wash up on the U.S. west coast?

The East Coast of the United States isn't the first place that comes to mind as being at risk of tsunamis, but new sonar maps are now helping to show that these risks do exist.

While it is clear that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown was a consequence of an earthquake and tsunami, like all disasters, it was also the result of political, economic and social choices that created or exacerbated broad - scale risks.

A recent study led by UMass Amherst looked at risk in southwestern Japan after the devastating 2011 quake and tsunami.

«We found that in tsunami - prone areas, people who have participated in community activities are more likely to undertake disaster risk reduction actions,» says IIASA researcher Raya Muttarak, who led the study.

This work is vital for understanding risk exposure in these countries from both ground shaking and tsunamis.»

Now he believes the adjacent mountains are at risk and could soon erode and cause another tsunami.

So far they have no way of computing the risk of an undersea landslide there, and thus the possibility of a large tsunami submerging the mid-Atlantic seaboard — although it's surely less imminent than the next major hurricane.

The proposal includes plans to upgrade an existing network of tidal gauges and seismographs in the Caribbean as well as to educate communities particularly at risk for tsunamis.

The major challenge remains the so - called «tsunami earthquakes,» events which are not strong enough to alarm the population at risk, yet have considerable tsunami potential.

A new study of the hazards posed by impact - generated waves suggests that coastlines face substantial risks of being slammed by tsunamis from asteroid spla

His main research interests are in the development and application of probabilistic concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering, including: structural reliability; life - cycle cost analysis; probability - based assessment, design, and multi-criteria life - cycle optimization of structures and infrastructure systems; structural health monitoring; life - cycle performance maintenance and management of structures and distributed infrastructure under extreme events (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and floods); risk - based assessment and decision making; multi-hazard risk mitigation; infrastructure sustainability and resilience to disasters; climate change adaptation; and probabilistic mechanics.

And the Daiichi complex in Fukushima, Japan, damaged by the 11 March earthquake and tsunami contains more fuel than was at risk at Three Mile Island.

But that consensus did not influence seismic risk assessments, tsunami preparedness, or a review of the hardiness of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

In response to the Great East Japan earthquake and the devastating tsunamis that followed, Tohoku University established the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) in April 2012, and Suppasri became an associate professor at the Hazard and Risk Evaluation Research Division.

At 11AM we are excited to have Peter Anderson from Simon Fraser University present on «Improving End - to - End Tsunami Warning for Risk Reduction Along Canada's West Coast».

Therefore, SMR - 160 will withstand a Fukushima - type earthquake and tsunami without any risk to public health and safety.

Every conceivable catastrophic event — severe cyclones (hurricanes or typhoons), tsunamis, flood, earthquakes, fire and crashing aircraft — has been considered in SMR - 160's design basis, and appropriate features incorporated to ensure that it will withstand these events without damage to itself, nor impose any risk to public health and safety.

The main body of contents is composed of scientific papers on the various aspects of seismology, including: investigation of specific earthquakes, theoretical and observational studies of seismic waves; inverse methods for determining the structure of the earth or the dynamics of the earthquake source; seismometry; earthquake hazard and risk estimation; seismotectonics; earthquake engineering; paleoseismology; tsunami studies.

The price of your tsunami insurance policy is mostly determined by your risk of flood damage.

But at the other end of the spectrum, in the floating world, investors are increasingly risk - agnostic about buying the biggest & best blue - chips — which are the primary beneficiaries of a world awash in a central bank tsunami of liquidity & quantitative easing.

Mark Tucker at AIA and Chairman Gao at CPIC maintain strong balance sheets, know their risks, insist on profitable underwriting, and have a tsunami of demand at their backs in Asia.

Although a Tsunami poses little threat to us in upstate New York, we are at risk for other types of natural disasters.

The Hyogo Framework for Action, negotiated in 2005 in the wake of the tsunami, sets out priorities for disaster risk reduction and calls upon the international community to take practical steps to make communities safer.

Please also visit the website of Geohazards International, which has helped develop effective, affordable designs for tsunami evacuation «parks» in high - risk cities.

Below you can read a helpful «Your Dot» contribution in which Synolakis reflects on how the world has, and hasn't, acted to reduce risk from tsunamis since that extraordinary catastrophe on Boxing Day 10 years ago.

Radiation detected off the U.S. West Coast from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan has declined since the 2011 tsunami disaster and never approached levels that could pose a risk to human health, seafood or wildlife, scientists say.

In a ranking of near - term «fatal discontinuities» in his 2008 book, «Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years,» Vaclav Smil puts asteroid collisions far below the persistent risk of large - scale war (particularly because so many nuclear weapons are still arrayed around the world), great earthquakes and tsunamis and pandemics, but above global warming (because of its gradual slope).

Health Risk Assessment from the Nuclear Accident After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, Based on a Preliminary Dose Estimation (World Health Organization, 2013); http://go.nature.com/2ndqml3

The obsession with average sea level rise compared with other coastal hazards (increases in water levels driven by storms as well as tsunamis) is a good illustration of how the focus on climate change is distorting assessments of risks and hazards.

The APG works closely with EOS scientists, other leading academics, and geo - risk experts, customising projects for organisations to assess and mitigate risks around climate change, sea - level rise, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and floods.

The tsunami of stupidity and science denial that has washed over Washington, D.C., won't be held back by earnest calculations of long - run risks, or by the potential inundation of remote island nations, or by the news that polar bears and other iconic species are endangered.

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A set of past events pointing toward 21rst Century risks explored in the book: Waking the Giant — How Climate Change Triggers Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis.

It is expected that consumers will be able to choose electricity from renewable sources instead of fossil fuel - powered thermal (along with its problems in terms of climate change) or nuclear power generation (whose great risks again became evident with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, caused by the tsunami after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011).

Many reported fleeing in just the clothes they had on, without taking time to gather valuables, medical records or even to lock their homes, with some thinking they were being evacuated because of the risk of a further tsunami.