Social Media Ideas for Disasters

Disaster Strikes!!! Is Your Supply Chain Ready To Recover?

Hurricanes!  Earthquakes!  Terrorist Attacks!  Train Derailments!  War! Fire! Cyber Attacks!  Every one is a disaster. You see it in the news every minute of every hour of eve...

Disaster Survivors Organizing

(Source:  People Magazine – Texas Floods) Two blogs ago (September 24) in a blog titled, “Learning from Missiles,” I wrote the following two paragraphs: Climate change is one of th...

Disasters don’t plan, but you can

Last year, it was Wheeling and Fairmont; this year, Weston and Buckhannon. You don’t have to look as far away as Nepal and Tibet to see how gushing water and flooding can devastate...

Is there a stream of disasters rolling out?

​Have you noticed the news these days is filled with disasters?​What is striking is the relentless combination of natural calamities and man-made mishaps. Many are left wondering w...

Climate Change & Natural Disasters

 🌍 Climate Change & Natural Disasters 1. What is Climate Change?Climate change is the long-term change in temperature, rainfall, wind patterns, and other climate conditions, d...

Disasters cost $228 billion in housing losses every year

$228 billion is a staggering amount of money to find, but that’s exactly what communities around the world are faced with every year, to rebuild housing after disaster strikes.

This global disaster map is useful and strangely addictive

I’m not one that typically seeks out disaster news, but there’s something strangely addictive about the interactive disaster tracking map from The Emergency and Disaster Informatio...

Prevention or acceptance of disaster?

We live in a world where every day there is at least one thing to lose sleep over: “Biblical” natural disasters, fires or floods, femicides, and threats to public health (like the...

Here are some other extraordinary rescues from natural disasters.

How Many Disaster Warnings Does It Take for People to Act?

How many disaster warnings does it take for people to act? Explore the link between warning channels and action in World Risk Poll data.

EMERGENCIES DON’T GIVE YOU TIME TO START MAKING A PLAN

В рџљЁ EMERGENCIES DON’T GIVE YOU TIME TO START MAKING A PLAN.That is why emergency preparedness must happen before the emergency.🔥 Fireрџ’Ґ Explosionрџ©є Medical emergencyрџ§...

Disaster Survivors Sticking Together

We found grace, humanity and friendship in the stories of disparate Americans hit by climate chaos.

100 Best Synonyms for “Disaster”

Need a stronger word than disaster? Find 100 vivid synonyms to sharpen your writing, from everyday mishaps to total catastrophes.

Emergency disaster fair draws residents preparing for more storms

Government agencies and community groups hosted the MДЃnoa Community Emergency Disaster Fair on September 19 to provide residents with supplies and practical advice for disaster pr...

A Disaster in Nepal

The Nepali authorities warned people to head for safety because more water could soak flood-ravaged villages.

Nepal-China death toll hits 538 — Another disaster is coming

ALBAWABA — Catastrophic flash floods have ripped across communities along the Nepal-China border, killing at least 538 people, as rescue teams race to find survivors and authoritie...

The Day Before Disaster

Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing Disasters must come in this fallen world, and maybe they will come to us. There are relatively few sayings of Jesus which the Holy Spirit saw...

Lessons from the Mataian disaster

NEPAL HUNTS FOR SURVIVORS

A man collects his belongings from a damaged house following the deadly flash floods and mudslide, at Devighat, Nuwakot district, Nepal, on Friday. — Reuters

The Earth Is Being Hit By One Catastrophic Disaster After Another, And This Is Only Just The Beginning

The absolutely devastating floods and mudslides that we just witnessed along the border between Nepal and Tibet look like something out of a science fiction movie. It is a tragedy...

347 displaced as floods, mudslides hit Cross River

Nyong said it was difficult to place a fixed monetary value on damage caused by disasters because the cost of restoring damaged property and infrastructure fluctuated with prevaili...

Nepal floods: What caused the catastrophe, and what could happen next

"The scale of damage is so high, it's like a parlay, we cannot imagine": Former National Reconstruction Authority CEO on...

By Ayushi Agarwal Kathmandu [Nepal], August 27 (ANI): Nepal is currently grappling with an unprecedented humanitarian crisis following catastrophic flash floods along the Bhote Kos...

Stewardship, Not Command: New Framework for Governing Disaster Systems

Disasters rarely respect organizational boundaries, and neither does the work of managing them. A new study published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Science argues t...