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East Asia Forum
In the face of the 2011 triple disaster, the residents of Fukushima banded together to manage the crisis. The word kizuna has become widely used to describe the people-to-people bonds underpinning the remarkable endurance displayed by the residents of Fukushima.
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The Wall Street Journal
The radioactive rubble has been cleared. Poured concrete has covered the toxic dust. And many workers have traded hazmat suits for surgical masks.
Five years ago, a massive earthquake spawned a tsunami that flooded the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, prompting the world’s worst nuclear disaster in a quarter century. Near the plant, many residents are angry that they still can’t return home and grieve for their lost loved ones.
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Daily Sabah
Speaking at the Istanbul Disaster Preparation Meeting held by the Prime Ministry Disaster & Emergency Management Authority, Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan said that AFAD, founded in 2009 to coordinate disaster prevention and relief efforts, prepared Turkey Emergency Response Plan laid out to minimize losses after three years of work.
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The Independent
Paris has begun an 11-day operation to help the city prepare for the possibility of a centennial flood that could reach the scale of the flood of 1910. More than 100 years ago, the Seine River rose 8 meters above its usual level following months of high rainfall, causing the catastrophe known as the Great Flood of Paris.
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IAEM
FEMA is requesting individuals who are interested in serving on the FEMA National Advisory Council (NAC) to apply to be considered for appointment. All appointments are for three-year terms starting in September 2016. All applications must be received by the close of business on March 16, 2016. The NAC is a federal advisory committee established to ensure effective and ongoing coordination of federal preparedness, protection, response, recovery, and mitigation for natural disasters, acts of terrorism, and other man-made disasters. The NAC advises the FEMA Administrator on all aspects of emergency management frameworks, strategies, and plans while incorporating the whole community's input through appointed council members. Learn more.
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IAEM
FEMA held a Mar. 2 briefing on the President's request for FY 2017 for Intergovernmental Stakeholders at the National Governors Association in Washington DC. The presentation slides are available here. Questions were raised regarding the reason for the $460 million cut to the homeland security grants when the threat of terrorism is rising. The response was that the Secretary of Homeland Security had to make difficult choices on competing priorities. It should be noticed that this budget requests a change in structure (see page 3). Emergency Management Performance Grants, Firefighter Assistance Grants, State and Local Programs, U.S. Fire Administration, Flood Hazard Mapping and Risk Analysis, Pre-Disaster Mitigation and Emergency Food and Shelter have all been moved into a single account called "Federal Assistance." The budget request has frequently proposed to move EMPG and Fire Fighter Assistance Grants into other accounts, but supporters of these programs have successfully made the case with Congress for them to continue to be separate accounts.
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Over the past several years, Members of Congress, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) have asked FEMA to look at how the federal government supports states following disasters and the associated costs. In response, FEMA is exploring the concept of a disaster deductible. The concept would include the establishment of a predetermined level of state disaster funding or investment in resilience before FEMA would begin to provide additional assistance through the Public Assistance program following a disaster declaration. The deductible concept would also include how to calculate the deductible, the scope of the deductible, how to satisfy the deductible, how this concept could influence change, implementation considerations and an estimated impact. FEMA is seeking public comments on all aspects of this concept until Mar. 21, 2016, which may be submitted through Regulations.gov.
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Reuters via Business Insider
The White House will gather U.S. state and local officials next month to urgently craft a plan to attack the notoriously hard-to-control mosquito that spreads the Zika virus ahead of its peak season.
By June or July, federal health officials expect the continental United States will see its first locally transmitted cases of the Zika virus, which has been linked to thousands of suspected cases of microcephaly, a rare birth defect, in Brazil.
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The IAEM-Global Editorial Work Group, working with the IAEM-USA Emerging Technology Caucus, is seeking feature articles on “Emerging Technology’s Impact on Emergency Management.” Articles might include, but are not limited to: cybersecurity specific to emergency threats and emerging vectors; 3-D printing in emergency management; drones (regulatory aspects); drones (actual use); wearable tech; mobile tech; self-driving cars and related implications; robots for searching buildings; overview of the full spectrum of emerging technology, both nationally and internationally; emerging technology in the EOC – innovative uses and new technology we need; and using social media to provide feedback to the government or to share information. The deadline for article submissions is Apr. 10, 2016; please read the author’s guidelines before submitting your 750-1,500 word article to Karen Thompson, editor. See the complete 2016 schedule and details here.
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Stay safe with the Gorman-Redlich CRW-S NOAA Weather Radio receiver, which includes SAME decoding and interfaces with digital signage, emergency lighting, PA systems and more. MORE
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IAEM
Authors are being solicited for a five-volume series of case studies. The series focuses on expert practice in the field of disaster and emergency management, including the ability to adapt and innovate in the face of changing demands. Get more information and learn how to submit a proposal.
The Weather Channel
Tornado outbreaks have been producing more tornadoes and more deaths in recent years, according to a new study.
Published in the online journal Nature Communications, the findings revealed tornado "clusters" are more dangerous now than they've been since at least 1954. Responsible for 79 percent of tornado fatalities in the eastern two-thirds of the U.S., these outbreaks often leave damage totals in the billions, the study also found.
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NJ.com
In late August 2011, New Jersey was under a state of emergency and residents were evacuating towns along the Shore as Hurricane Irene was barreling up the Atlantic coast packing sustained winds as high as 85 mph.
But before the hurricane would make landfall near Atlantic City, it suddenly weakened.
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Los Angeles Times
In November, as a forecast of severe winter weather seemed to threaten Los Angeles' homeless population, activists clamoring for Mayor Eric Garcetti to declare a citywide state of emergency had little luck.
Garcetti resisted the idea of an emergency proclamation — a move that would enable him to assume broader executive and police powers in the fight against homelessness — describing it as a "rabbit hole" that risked distracting from long-term solutions to the plight of thousands who live on L.A.'s streets.
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The National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), a joint program of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government is bringing Leonard Marcus, founding and co-director for a plenary session at the 2016 IAEM Annual Conference on Oct. 19, 2016, in Savannah, Georgia. Marcus will speak on the conceptual and pragmatic basis for “Meta-Leadership,” overarching leadership that strategically links the work of different agencies and levels of government; “Connectivity,” the coordination of people, organizations, resources, and information to best catch, contain, and control a terrorist or other threat to the public’s health and well-being; and “Swarm Intelligence” as it applies to crisis leadership. For more information, visit our website.
Pacific Standard
Is there such thing as a natural disaster? Historian Jacob Remes says no. In Remes' account, disasters are the intersection of natural hazards with society and politics. Remes came upon this framing during Hurricane Katrina, when he, like many of us, sat in front of screens watching citizens crammed into makeshift shelters. We saw corpses floating down city streets, the same ones Blackwater contractors patrolled as if they were in Iraq.
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Los Angeles Times
The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 killed more than 200,000 people, caused widespread devastation and posed even bigger challenges to the already poverty-stricken Caribbean nation.
Six years later, despite an initial outpouring of humanitarian assistance and $13.5 billion in pledges and donations, Haiti remains vulnerable.
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The Politics of Poverty
Members of the Santa Eduviges local civil-protection committee discuss preparedness plans near the widening ravine that threatens their community. In the storm of November 2009, the losses were heavy: eight houses were buried or badly damaged by landslides around the nearby ravine.
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CityLab
When it comes to earthquake preparedness, the U.S. is surprisingly behind the times. Despite the fact that nearly half of all Americans are susceptible to potentially damaging earthquakes, the country is ill-prepared to sustain a tremor of the magnitude that scientists have warned about. Kathryn Schulz of The New Yorker recently reported that the odds of a disastrous earthquake occurring in the Pacific Northwest in the next 50 years are about 1 in 3.
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The Associated Press via Herald & Review
Researchers say they've come up with a way to predict the likelihood of tornadoes two or three weeks in advance — a step toward better warnings of storms that kill an average of 80 Americans each year.
Victor Gensini, a meteorology professor at the College of DuPage outside Chicago, found a link between tornado activity in the United States and complicated atmospheric wave patterns that shift every 40 to 60 days.
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Daily Times
Due to diverse geo-climatic conditions prevalent in different parts of the globe natural catastrophes cause enormous destruction and create human sufferings and produce negative economic impact.
Disaster occurrences cannot be eliminated, but they can be managed in a better way.
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The Economic Times
Rescue dog Gonta, outfitted with a GPS-enabled backpack but driven by his own innate sense of smell, jumps onto a pile of collapsed rubble to find buried survivors.
Though just a drill, the intensity of the Brittany spaniel in scouring the mound of broken concrete highlights the key role of sniffer dogs in saving lives when buildings collapse, such as in earthquakes or explosions.
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Phys.org
A ground-breaking tracking system called HYPERION based on eye-safe lasers could enable aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and even orbiting satellites to transmit vital data to ground stations more securely, quickly and efficiently. The development of HYPERION has been pioneered by a joint team through Innovate U.K.'s HITEA program: the University of Oxford with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, and Airbus Group Innovations with Innovate U.K. support.
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IAEM
The National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program (NTHMP) has updated and redesigned its Tsunami Awareness and Safety Fact Sheet. The fact sheet was developed for NTHMP partners and other interested parties to promote tsunami awareness and safety among their constituents. Two versions are available for download, a two-pager and a trifold. Both versions have space for the addition of logos and/or contact information.
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The Ready Campaign and America's PrepareAthon! are offering a social media toolkit for Severe Weather Preparedness. Communities and emergency managers can use this online resource to reach residents, partners, and stakeholders with messages about how to stay safe during hazardous weather such as severe thunderstorms and flooding. The messages are easy to insert into a post or tweet, so those who use Facebook and Twitter are able to share valuable preparedness information with family, friends, and coworkers during emergencies and disasters.
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BC Management, Inc., invites IAEM members to participate in its 6th Annual Event Impact Management Study, which is live through Mar. 31, 2016. This survey will be used to assess how specific events have impacted organizations by highlighting what was activated in times of an event, the impact to the business, the impact to the personnel, downtime as well as the estimated financial loss by event. Study participants will receive a complimentary report assessing the data findings collected from this annual study. Learn more.
IAEM
Do you have emergency management or disaster risk reduction experience working in or with local government? If so, you are invited to participate in an international survey that is seeking to understand the drivers and barriers of local government action on disaster risk reduction. The survey is designed to improve understanding of the relationship between a local government's risk, political and development setting, resources and activity in reducing the disaster risk of its community and will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. Please complete the survey now.
IAEM
AEMC is Asia’s specialized Emergency Management Conference for Urban Areas. It is taking place May 10-12, 2016, at the Venetian, Macao. More than 30 international speakers already have been confirmed for the three-day program, featuring thought leadership speeches, practical workshops and excellent networking opportunities. IAEM also will be present throughout this event including panel session and the concurrent exhibition. Learn more about AEMC.
IAEM
Join FEMA on March 15, 2:00-3:00 p.m. EDT, for a webinar providing an overview of the 2016 Individual and Community Preparedness Awards and highlighting the benefits of winning this prestigious honor. The webinar will feature past winners who will discuss how the awards impacted their programs and communities. Featured speakers will include: Iskra Gencheva, Ready New York, NYC Citizen Corps, NYC Community Emergency Response Team, and 2015 winner of Outstanding Citizen Corps Council; Brenda Emrick, Orange County, California CERT Mutual Aid Program, and 2015 winner of the Outstanding Community Emergency Response Team Initiatives; Betsy Miller, Whole Community Disaster Simulation, Ready Montana, and 2015 winner of the John D. Solomon Whole Community Preparedness Award; Craig Wolfe, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator for Hull, Massachusetts, and 2015 winner of the Community Preparedness Heroes; and Yuri Graves, City of Henderson, Nevada, Get READY! Stay READY! Campaign, and 2015 winner of Awareness to Action. Please register for the event using the Adobe Connect registration web link.
IAEM
The communities of Joplin and Duquesne are hosting the Joplin Disaster Recovery Summit, May 19-20, 2016, at Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, Missouri, to share the lessons learned during their recovery journeys. In 2011, a devastating tornado struck southwest Missouri, significantly impacting the communities of Joplin and Duquesne and damaging surrounding areas in Newton and Jasper counties. The summit will cover a multitude of topics including debris management, crisis communications, financial resiliency, human services, voluntary networks and long-term recovery, featuring many subject matter experts who either were impacted by a disaster or assisting with community recoveries. Pre-register to reserve your seat at the summit, and obtain additional information here.
The Weather Channel
Winter 2015-2016 was the warmest on record in the contiguous United States dating to the late 19th century, according to a government report released.
The mean temperature from December through February, known as meteorological winter, over the lower 48 states was just over 4.5 degrees Fahrenheit above the long-term (1901-2000) average for that three-month period.
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NBC News
A woman in California drowned after the car she was in drove into floodwaters as El Niño-inspired storms hit the area over the weekend, and homes were damaged.
The woman, who was not identified, was a passenger in a car that drove around a blockade in Olivehurst and became submerged, NBC station KCRA of Sacramento reported.
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Reuters via Standard Digital News
At least 24 people, many of them children, died and dozens were missing in Angola after a flash-flood swept through a market in the southern city of Lubango, state media said. The Angop news agency said flood-waters from the Capitao river, swollen by nearly 24 hours of torrential rain in the area, washed through the market, where many young Angolans congregated to wash cars and bicycles.
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