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WIth 2018 here, IAEM would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy New Year. Taking a moment to reflect on the past year for the industry, we are providing the readers of the IAEM Dispatch a look at the most accessed articles (part 2) from 2017. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 11.
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Reno Gazette-Journal
From Feb. 16: As the nation's 84,000 dams continue to age, a growing number of people downstream of these structures are at risk, according to experts and data of the nation's dams. It's a problem highlighted this week as nearly 200,000 people evacuated the area near California's Oroville Dam, which suffered a potential failure of its emergency spillway.
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Government Executive
From Sept. 7: Donald F. Kettl writes: A decade ago, my wife and I finally escaped on a long-delayed week away. We picked Bermuda because it had beautiful water, offered cheap off-season prices, and was a short hop. When we settled into our plane seats, we saw lots of other casually dressed tourists. But we were surprised to also see a large number of well-dressed women and men in expensive dresses and suits. They obviously weren’t heading to the beach.
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Blasting News
From Aug. 24: Facebook is expanding rapidly. Today, the social media giant stands at a point wherein it has touched almost every field in the society – be it getting people connected or helping them out in the times of need. In a similar effort, the company had launched something called the “#Safety #Check” #feature back in 2015. Their main objective was to extend help to victims of the Nepal earthquake. It appears that the company is implementing a couple of changes to its “Safety Check” feature now.
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FCW
From March 2: The Federal Emergency Management Agency needs a new, experienced administrator quickly or it could lose some of its forward momentum, said both the agency's former head and lawmakers during a hearing on FEMA's future. "FEMA is not the place for on-the-job-training," former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate told a House Homeland Security Committee's Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications Subcommittee hearing on Feb. 28.
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The Weather Channel
From April 20: You can probably guess the nation's most tornado-ravaged states, but a NOAA dataset allows us to zero in on the most tornado-prone counties in the U.S. Using the Storm Events database from NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, we compiled tornado data for each county in the U.S. from 1950-2016. Since a given tornado may travel over multiple counties, the dataset isn't strictly the number of tornadoes, but rather number of tornado segments.
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Government Security News
From Feb. 23: An overwhelming majority of power and utility executives say their cybersecurity function does not fully meet their organization's needs, according to the EY Global Information Security Survey 2016-17. That number continues to rise compared with last year as companies struggle to manage increased risk from growth in digital and connected devices.
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Phys.org
From Feb. 2: Researchers of the Mathematics Research Centre and the UAB have developed a mathematical law to explain the size distribution of earthquakes, even in the cases of large-scale earthquakes such as those which occurred in Sumatra (2004) and in Japan (2011). The probability of an earthquake occurring exponentially decreases as its magnitude value increases.
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The Washington Post
From March 9: The Trump administration, searching for money to build the president’s planned multibillion-dollar border wall and crack down on illegal immigration, is weighing significant cuts to the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration and other agencies focused on national security threats, according to a draft plan.
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VICE News
From Jan. 12: Asteroid 2017 AG13 was only spotted by scientists at the last minute. On Monday, while you were watching Meryl Streep's viral Globes speech or doing whatever else to fill the void, planet Earth came dangerously close to being hit by a small asteroid. Asteroid 2017 AG13 — as it has since been dubbed — is roughly the size of a multi-storey apartment building, and just scraped by without making contact with the planet we're living on.
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Homeland Security Newswire
From June 8: As the recent terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom painfully show, the odds are in favor of terrorists. All they have to do is succeed once, no matter how many times they try. For public safety professionals to be fully successful, they have to prevent 100 percent of the terror attempts. It’s a number to aspire to, but even the most experienced countries fighting terror — such as Israel and the U.K. — can’t measure up to this standard.
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