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As 2015 comes to a close, IAEM would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of the IAEM Dispatch a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 7.
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Government Executive
From March 12: Just when everyone had pretty much written it off, the El Niño event that has been nearly a year in the offing finally emerged in February and could last through the spring and summer, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced. This isn't the blockbuster, 1998 repeat El Niño many anticipated when the first hints of an impending event emerged about a year ago. This El Niño has just crept across the official threshold, so it won't be a strong event.
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The Daily Signal
From Nov. 19: In the wake of the terror attacks in Paris, the nation's local emergency managers are gathered in a "Paris" ballroom (at the hotel in Las Vegas). While the location was a coincidence, a focus on responding to acts of terrorism is by design. Al-Qaeda's quest for "spectacular" attacks on the homeland has morphed into ISIS' more pragmatic goal: To terrorize by any means possible. And the terrorists who struck Friday in Paris achieved that goal as grief and fear have gripped that city.
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BusinessTech
From May 7: Seismologists have discovered a massive magma reservoir beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming, that suggests its volcanic system could be more than 5.6 times larger than was previously thought. Although it was already known that Yellowstone had one magma reservoir, located about 5-16km (3-10 miles) below the surface, the new study, published in Science, has revealed another, much larger reservoir sitting directly below the first, located around 20-50km (12-30 miles) below the surface.
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BBC News
From May 14: The El Nino effect, which can drive droughts and flooding, is under way in the tropical Pacific, say scientists. Australia's Bureau of Meteorology predicted that it could become a "substantial" event later in the year. The phenomenon arises from variations in ocean temperatures. The El Nino is still in its early stages, but has the potential to cause extreme weather around the world, according to forecasters.
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Wired
From Aug. 20: Recently, a 3.3-magnitude earthquake rattled San Francisco ever so slightly. The small quake, like so many before it, passed, and San Franciscans went back to conveniently ignoring their seismic reality. Magnitude 3.3 earthquakes are clearly no big deal, and the city survived a 6.9-magnitude earthquake in 1989 mostly fine — how much bigger will the Big One, at 8.0, be than 1989?
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NPR
From Aug. 13: More than 11,000 dams across the U.S. have protected lives and property from flooding for decades. But age is catching up to them, and many need repairs. Record rain hasn't helped matters this year.
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Wired
From Aug. 6: In retrospect, the choice to book a ground-floor room was a sound one. On Saturday, April 25, Andy Fraser lay in bed at the Rokpa Guest House, a modest three-story hotel in Nepal's ancient capital, a city of 1 million sunk in a valley bordered by the Himalayan range. Fraser, a powerfully built 38-year-old British wilderness paramedic with a shaved head and prom¬inent brow, had arrived a few weeks earlier for an extended business trip
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The Energy Collective
From March 19: The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced a change in its requirements for State Hazard Mitigation Plans that NRDC has been advocating for nearly three years. These plans, which states develop in order to prepare for future natural disasters, must now consider the projected effects of climate change on hazard risks.
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Government Executive
From Sept. 10: If you've never heard of Craig Fugate, that's probably best for all involved. Most people only know the names of directors of the Federal Emergency Management Agency when something goes badly wrong — just ask Michael "Heck of a Job" Brown, who led the organization during Hurricane Katrina. "My joke has been my entire career, I'm that individual when things go south. You gotta fire somebody, so I'm the guy you’re gonna fire," Fugate says.
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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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Discovery News
From Oct. 8: Humans may be willing to put daily pleasure ahead of the threat of long-term disaster when selecting where to live, a new international study suggests. Study co-author Professor Ben Newell, of the University of NSW, said the research examined how people would react to being told of a predicted increase in the risk of natural disasters with climate change. Professor Newell, from the School of Psychology, said it was surprising how little weight participants in the study gave to disaster threat.
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