Manmade or technological disasters are unpredictable, can spread across geographical boundaries, may be unpreventable, and may have limited physical damage but long-term effects. Some disasters in ...

Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, landslides, wildfires and droughts are increasing in frequency and intensity, in large part because of climate change (M. Coronese et al. Proc ...

The charts above show the 46-year history of U.S. ‘compound extremes’ (e.g., billion dollar disaster events that occur at the same time or in sequence). The physical and socioeconomic impacts of ...

When disasters hit, they can mean days to weeks without power, and sometimes they allow just enough time to grab a bag of supplies and go. Now is the time to prepare, well before the disaster is on ...

Wildfires have torched parts of Maui before, but never any as devastating as the ones that tore through Lahaina last week. Authorities are still working to understand what could have been done to ...

From tropical storms to wildfires, climate disasters aren’t confined to the places we’re used to seeing them. From tropical storms to wildfires, climate disasters aren’t confined to the places we’re ...

KIHEI >> Hurricane-fueled flash floods and mudslides. Lava that creeps into neighborhoods. Fierce drought that materializes in a flash and lingers. Earthquakes. And now, deadly fires that burn block ...

When Mother Nature reveals her unpredictable side, which cities are the most prepared to weather the storm? As summer becomes fall and weather patterns become more unpredictable, Gutter Gnome ...

As my L.A. County Fire partner and I were trying to get ahead of the flames, we drove up a narrow road into a canyon neighborhood above the endless sea of homes in the flat valley below. Appropriately ...

Explosions can inflict multi-system life-threatening injuries to many persons simultaneously. Multiple factors contribute to the injury patterns which result from blasts. Contributing factors include ...