The Fukushima nuclear disaster triggered by the magnitude 9.0 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, reminded the world that nuclear power plant accidents like the Chernobyl and ...

Researchers developed a detailed assessment and map of vulnerability to natural disaster of the continental United States. A fifth of neighborhood blocks in the continental United States most ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The City of Charleston on Thursday released an All Hazards Vulnerability and Risk Assessment ten years in the making. According to the findings, flooding in some form and ...

While healthcare systems universally complete an HVA, a CMS requirement, the HVA alone does not define what the system must be able to do. FEMA’s Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment ...

In evaluating the quality of Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) approach to risk analysis—element (a) of this study’s Statement of Task—we must differentiate between DHS’s overall ...

Only 21% of properties within the Eaton fire perimeter were in Cal Fire’s “very high” fire hazard severity zones. Yet 94% of those properties had “severe” or “extreme” wildfire risk, according to more ...

Afghanistan is highly prone to intense and recurring natural hazards such as flooding, earthquakes, snow avalanches, landslides and droughts due to its geographical location and years of environmental ...