Google News: Natural Hazards

February Is Earthquake Awareness Month in Missouri
Kansas City infoZine
“While many earthquakes do not cause loss of life, they are a natural hazard that no one can predict and there are things we can do to be better prepared in the event a damaging earthquake occurs in Missouri." During Earthquake Awareness Month, ...

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Tioga County updating FEMA Hazard Mitigation Plan
Towanda Daily Review
... its vulnerability to natural hazards, evaluate progress on the mitigation strategies identified in the original plan, and add new mitigation actions/projects/initiatives so that the County can continue to lower its overall natural hazard risk.

Support the CAIC at A-Basin's beacon bowl
Summit Daily News
The CAIC provides forecasting and public education surrounding avalanches in Colorado, a natural and human-triggered phenomenon that has killed more people in Colorado than any other natural hazard since 1950. CAIC's goal is to minimize those human and ...

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The Herald-Times (subscription)
Top federal official to lecture at IU Monday on peak oil, earthquakes
The Herald-Times (subscription)
“She is not only a highly respected research scholar, but as the director of the US Geological Survey, she is one of the government's leading experts on energy policy, environmental issues and natural hazard mitigation.” A lunchtime brown-bag lecture, ...

Industrial Spotlight: Dow, The Nature Conservancy share progress report
Midland Daily News
Three ecosystem services were determined to have high value for investigation -- freshwater, air quality mitigation and coastal natural hazard mitigation. Among the objectives for the second year of the collaboration is to begin to run environmental ...

Kathy Yamamoto: Banks must make disclosures to buyers
The Salinas Californian
Natural Hazard Disclosure Statement: Although an REO lender is exempt from the requirement of providing a Natural Hazard Disclosure Statement, REO sellers must disclose other provisions of California law requiring disclosures that a property is located ...

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Execs to move school campus out of danger zone
Inquirer.net
An MGB natural hazard study in Buenavista, which lies on the foothills of Mt. Malindang, showed that the entire Sitio Diwat, where the school is built, is highly susceptible to landslide. The MGB assessment was confirmed when rocks plummeted from the ...

Second Community to Benefit from World Bank-Funded Landslide Mitigation Project
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service
The project will see the erecting of a network of strategically placed drains, channels and rainwater harvesting systems that will act as natural hazard intervention techniques. One key element of the project, Mr. Frankson, is the utilisation of local ...

Triple Pundit
Progress Report: Dow Chemical Partners with The Nature Conservancy
Triple Pundit
The ecosystem services include fresh water, air quality mitigation, coastal natural hazard mitigation: Fresh water—The site receives it fresh water supply from the Brazos River. The collaboration identified Brazos River's “salt wedge” as a problem.

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Grant still pending
Branson Tri-Lakes news
The latest holdup on the grant is the Taney County Natural Hazard Mitigation plan, which expired in January, she said. Redford is hopeful in the next week to 10 days that a request for an extension of that plan will be approved and the district will ...

ODPEM Says Retaining Walls May Not be the Best to Prevent Landslides
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service
... PRIDE settlement, is now a regularised community which overlooks Harbour View, where some $50 million is to be spent erecting a network of drains, channels and rainwater harvesting strategies that will act as natural hazard intervention techniques.

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Director to speak about fossil fuel prospects, earthquake effects
Indiana Daily Student
“She is not only a highly respected research scholar, but as the director of the US Geological Survey, she is one of the government's leading experts on energy policy, environmental issues and natural hazard mitigation.” McNutt is the first woman to ...

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South Florida Caribbean News
'QUAKE: Haiti in Jamaica' Documentary Spurs Response In Jamaica and Caribbean
South Florida Caribbean News
“It was aimed at getting more people to pay keen attention to where they build, and to prepare for the eventuality of a catastrophe as one event resulting from a natural hazard has the potential to do more harm than any violent outbreak.

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Buyers Concerned About Insurance Pricing, Availability, Survey Finds
PropertyCasualty360
... insurance brokers and risk management services firms, shows that risk managers and buyers also are concerned about managing risk with fewer resources and reduced budgets, particularly for firms with large natural-hazard and supply-chain exposures.

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Harbour Heights for ODPEM Project
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service
The mitigation project will include the plotting (with the aid of GPS technology and local 'lay-of-the-land knowledge), outlining and erecting of a series of drains, gutters, channels and rainwater harvesting strategies that will act as natural hazard ...

Director of US Geological Survey to speak on fossil fuel resources, earthquakes
Indiana University
"She is not only a highly respected research scholar, but as the director of the US Geological Survey, she is one of the government's leading experts on energy policy, environmental issues and natural hazard mitigation.

Daily Gossip
Houston Weather Forecasts Warn About Storms And Floods
Daily Gossip
Although flooding is the most common natural hazard people in Houston have to deal with, there still are a lot that take the problem too lightly, according to officials. City officials warn that 6 inches of water can cause tires to lose traction and ...

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Suncorp to shift back-office jobs to India
The Australian
Suncorp's total natural hazard damages bill for the December half is expected to be between $360 million and $420m. That is above its $240m natural hazard allowance for the period, meaning it will incur a charge of between $120m and $180m.

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Moeraki landslip data collected
Timaru Herald
So far, half the claims with the EQC have been declined, as a notice had been placed on the certificate of title identifying the natural hazard. There are still nine active claims and two almost settled. Four have been withdrawn.

Property insurers lifting rates as storms defy models
Lincoln Journal Star
... Alley" of Texas north through, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska and South Dakota to North Dakota, said Howard Botts, executive vice president at CoreLogic Inc.'s spatial solutions business, who creates natural hazard databases for the industry.