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Quick response research report volume 145
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Parameters that may affect the death rate in a tornado disaster are income level, educational level, accuracy of forecast, communication systems, emergency rescue operation and transportation, medical equipment, community network, and so on.
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Quick response research report volume 121
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
In the eyes of Montserratians, the dome collapse was considered as a volcanic event but not a disastrous event.
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Quick response research report volume 99
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
This work is focuses on a small rural county in northern Virginia and its attempts to use its geographic information system in a disaster relief situation.
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Quick response research report volume 184
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Issues regarding instances of looting or appropriating behavior that occurred in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are discussed.
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Quick response research report volume 165
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Survey taken after the May 4, 2003 tornados indicate tornado warnings were adequate and timely in large communities but not in small communities, particularly for rural areas, where tornado warnings also significantly differ across timing and sociological factors.
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Quick response research report volume 142
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Studies the degree of citizen involvement in the planning of recovery and the degree to which recovery was incorporating mitigation of the impacts of future extreme natural events (more earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding, volcanic eruptions).
15) Media influences on response to a natural hazard: the Mississippi River salt water intrusion of 1988
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Quick response research report volume 41
Pub. Date
1990.
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Quick response research report volume 161
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Studies the effects of a tornado on an urbanized area. Fujita Scale does not describe urban types of damage effectively, which could lead to difficulties in the Fujita Scale damage assessment process.
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Quick response research report volume 185
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Discusses the effect of the effects of wildfire on an Oregon community.
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Quick response research report volume 84
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
The coastal impacts from Opal were generally the result of wave action and flooding rather than wind. Much can be learned on how to mitigate future damage from a survey of the damage patterns using a geological perspective.
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Quick response research report volume 172
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
The purpose of this research was to identify current evacuation procedures for the nursing home population and document the baseline status of facilities and the procedures utilized in evacuations.