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The UN General Assembly has designated Nov. 5 as World Tsunami Awareness Day. Each year, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction calls on governmental and nongovernmental organizations to observe the day by engaging in efforts to raise tsunami awareness and share innovative approaches to risk reduction. For the third year in a row, World Tsunami Awareness Day will align with the International Day for Disaster Reduction and the "Sendai Seven Campaign" and focus on the third target of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, which aims to reduce the economic losses associated with disasters. Visit https://www.tsunami.gov/ to learn about the U.S. Tsunami Warning System and its ongoing efforts to minimize the impacts of tsunamis in the U.S. and around the world.
Route Fifty
Wireless service remains spotty in the areas of the Florida panhandle that were hit hardest by Hurricane Michael a week ago, with officials saying storm victims have struggled to find out about emergency assistance because of the communications breakdown.
In Bay County, where Panama City and Mexico Beach are located, 47 percent of cell sites were down as of Thursday according to a Federal Communications Commission’s status report.
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USA Today
The oceans near North America have been angry this year.
When all the hurricanes and tropical storms that have formed in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans this year are added together, the 2018 hurricane season is the most active season ever recorded, Colorado State University meteorologist Phil Klotzbach announced Tuesday.
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Discover Magazine
Typhoons are becoming more destructive at northern latitudes, according to the first long-term study to document how the storms in East Asia are drifting toward the poles. As climate change expands the tropics and warms sea surface temperatures, those conditions are triggering cyclones to form further north, scientists say.
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Business Insider
It's shaping up to be another record-breaking year of wildfires in California. As of October 20, more than 7,100 fires have burned a combined total of more than 1.5 million acres across the state, the National Interagency Fire Center reports. The state also set a new record for its largest single wildfire to date when the Ranch Fire burned through 410,203 acres this fall.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is seeking comments on its draft Senior Leader Toolkit, which will provide easy-to-edit tools to help emergency managers prepare their senior leaders and policy makers to fulfill their incident responsibilities. Senior leaders and policy makers play a critical role in incident management. This role varies widely across the nation according to local laws and authorities. Stakeholders have asked for assistance developing materials for their senior leaders; however, FEMA understands that local personnel best understand the specific roles and responsibilities within their jurisdiction. For this reason, FEMA is releasing these documents as customizable templates, so that local emergency managers can revise them according to their local authorities and procedures. The templates in the toolkit include: an Elected Officials/Senior Executives Quick Reference Guide; a Department Head Quick Reference Guide; and a NIMS Senior Leader Briefing Template. Review the draft Senior Leader Toolkit online, complete the feedback form, and submit to FEMA-NIMS@fema.dhs.gov by 5:00 p.m. EST, Nov. 16, 2018.
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On Tuesday, Oct. 23, Peter T. Gaynor was sworn in as deputy administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Gaynor is the former director of the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency. He joins FEMA Administrator Brock Long in his vision to build a stronger agency and to help implement the 2018-2022 Strategic Plan to unify and further professionalize emergency management across the country.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Oct. 18 released a new set of 48 Core Capability Development Sheets updated with standardized capability targets and newly released resource types. First released in June 2017, the sheets provide core capability definitions and tasks, relevant trainings, example capability targets, typed resources, critical planning partners, validation techniques, and additional organizations that support the development of the specific core capability. This information helps jurisdictions to improve their capabilities and close gaps identified in the Stakeholder Preparedness Review or other assessments. The updated sheets are available online. Questions and feedback should be directed to FEMA-TArequest@fema.dhs.gov.
Huffington Post
When Luis Barrios climbed out of a canoe and trudged through knee-deep waters into his parents’ modest home in north Houston days after Hurricane Harvey hit last year, he was shaken. There was debris everywhere. The few pieces of new furniture his parents had recently bought were soaked beyond repair.
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Nextgov
In the wake of a disaster, no aid worker wants to challenge people’s rights to government assistance. That said, fraud abounds during these times and federal programs need to ensure that resources go to those who truly need them.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has been using residency information to verify survivors after disasters strike but is looking for a solution that includes many more data points.
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Healthcare Ready is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization supported by both public and private sector partners that works to ensure patient access to healthcare, including medicines, during times of disaster. Healthcare Ready has activated its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to support healthcare and public health response operations to Hurricane Michael, which included activating the Emergency Prescription Assistance Program (EPAP) in response to select counties in Florida. EPAP allows uninsured patients who have been impacted by a federally declared disaster to receive up to a 30-day refill of their prescriptions, certain vaccines, and durable medical equipment (crutches, wheelchairs, etc.) at no cost. The program was activated on Oct. 18, 2018. Read more online.
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Homeland Security Today
Over the past few decades, tornadoes have been shifting — decreasing in the Tornado Alley of Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas but spinning up more in states along the Mississippi River and farther east, a new study shows. Scientists aren’t quite certain why.
Tornado activity is increasing most in Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa and parts of Ohio and Michigan, according to a study published Wednesday.
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The Hill
The historic impacts of Hurricanes Florence and Michael, along with this year’s wildfires, are the latest examples of more frequent and severe disasters, which cost the federal government and states billions of dollars annually. In fact, eight of the most expensive years on record for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) largest disaster assistance program occurred between 2007 and 2016.
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Phys.org
In a warming world, the dangers from natural disasters are changing. In a recent commentary, we identified a number of costly and deadly catastrophes that point to an increase in the risk of "cascading" events – ones that intensify the impacts of natural hazards and turn them into disasters.
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The Conversation
Destructive storms like Hurricanes Florence and Michael prompt difficult conversations about whether to rebuild or retreat. Retreat is an established part of U.S. flood management: Government agencies have been paying people to move out of harm’s way for several decades. But the process is flawed and needs to be improved.
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Gulf News
Another oil refinery explosion is in the news and this time at Canada’s Saint John refinery, the largest in the country.
It happened on the morning of October 8, a national holiday, while 3,000 workers were involved in a major turnaround of the refinery. Luckily, it caused only a few workers to be hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
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Nextgov
Police officers, firefighters and paramedics have no time to waste when responding to emergencies, and the Homeland Security Department wants to keep everyone safe as they speed to the scene.
The department awarded a $1.1 million contract to a Chicago-based startup to flesh out cellular technology that automatically notifies drivers when they’re in the vicinity of police cars, firetrucks and ambulances.
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Homeland Security Today
As Hurricane Florence approached the United States East Coast this September and Hurricane Michael approached Florida, emergency managers and responders looked to predictive, situational awareness and decision support tools to help them prepare for the impending landfall and to respond once the storm arrived.
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Information Week
When lives are on the line information can make the difference between survival and tragedy. Here's a look at the technology organizations are using to communicate with the public and employees before, during and after a disaster occurs.
From hurricane after hurricane to wildfires and mass shootings, 2018 has, at times, felt like a never-ending series of disasters.
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Candidates due to recertify in 2018 should submit their application by 11:59 p.m. EST on Dec. 31, 2018. Keep in mind that the recertification fee must be applied to the candidate’s account before submitting the application. Payments made online are processed the next business day, so plan accordingly.
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IAEM-USA Region 1 is holding a regional conference on Nov. 16-27, 2018, at Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. Registration is available online, and an updated agenda has been posted. Get in touch with Eric Sawyer to find out more about exhibiting at the conference or becoming a sponsor. This is a prime opportunity to network with other Region 1 members. Learn more at the conference event site.
Xinhuanet
Authorities have accelerated relief works at quake- and tsunami-rattled areas in Central Sulawesi province as the number of evacuees soars to 223, 751 people, a senior official of disaster agency said here on Saturday.
Bodies were persistently retrieved almost every day by personnel involving in the works, albeit the search and rescue mission has been called off since Oct. 12, putting the total death toll to 2,013 on Saturday, spokesman of national disaster management agency Sutopo Purwo Nugroho revealed.
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USA Today
Hurricane Willa has grown into an "extremely dangerous," 145-mph Category 4 storm in the eastern Pacific on a path toward Mexico’s western coast, forecasters say.
Earlier on Monday, Willa had attained Category 5 status, with 160 mph winds.
Landfall is predicted for late Tuesday or early Wednesday, likely as a major hurricane (Category 3 or above), the National Hurricane Center said
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Global Voices
The rains that enveloped Trinidad and Tobago on October 19, 2018 started gently, but their initial softness belied their ferocity. They were persistent, relentless, and they got heavier with time. Time turned out to be the thing that turned bad weather from the energetic Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) into a national disaster.
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Jamaica Information Services
Earthquakes and tsunamis are an ever-present threat to Jamaica. The country’s location on multiple geological faults subjects it to up to an average of 200 earthquakes per year.
This natural disposition, Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) Director General, Major Clive Davis, tells JIS News, is the reason earthquake and tsunami preparations are critical components of the entity’s Disaster Management Programme.
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Express.co.uk
Parts of Malaga including the Costa del Sol resort of Estepona are expected to be declared a disaster area after devastating floods which left one man dead. A military emergency response unit was mobilized on Sunday as people had to be rescued from their homes by helicopter after torrential rain.
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Santiago Times
At least 61 people were killed and over 70 others injured in northern Indian state of Punjab after a train rammed into a crowd watching festivities of a Hindu festival on the railway tracks, officials said Saturday.
The incident took place Friday evening at 6:45 p.m. local time at Jaura Phatak in Amritsar, the Sikh holy city of Punjab.
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CNN
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck northwest of Canada's Vancouver Island late Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey. It was one of a trio of earthquakes to occur in quick succession on the same fault line.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the preliminary 6.6-magnitude earthquake was 6.8 miles deep, about 135 miles southwest of Port Hardy, a town on the northeastern end of Vancouver Island.
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The Weather Channel
Severe storms pounded Rome Sunday night, leaving parts of the city to deal with knee-deep hail and flooding.
Posts across social media showed roads becoming impassable and looking more like ice-covered rivers.
Motorists were forced to abandon their submerged cars in the mixture of high water and ice flooding, Euro News reported, who called the hailstorm "unprecedented."
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The Washington Post via Chicago Tribune
An oil spill that has been quietly leaking millions of barrels into the Gulf of Mexico has gone unplugged for so long that it now verges on becoming one of the worst offshore disasters in U.S. history.
Between 300 and 700 barrels of oil per day have been spewing from a site 12 miles off the Louisiana coast since 2004, when an oil-production platform owned by Taylor Energy sank in a mudslide triggered by Hurricane Ivan.
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Japan Times
Qatar was hit by widespread flash flooding on Saturday as the desert state received almost a year’s worth of rainfall in one day.
Roads became impassable, air traffic was disrupted and homes were flooded, while shops and universities closed.
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