Mastodawn

The usual tsunami advice to move inland and to move to high ground might not be possible for many atolls. Generic, international, trans-oceanic warnings need to become locally meaningful. What advice should be given for surviving tsunamis?

Ilan Kelman Jul 20, 2025

New paper:
"From multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) to all-vulnerability warning systems (AVWS)"
Free to download https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112977

#EWS #WarningSystems #Warning #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterWarning #EarlyWarning #EarlyWarningSystems #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters (avoid the phrases #NaturalDisaster #NaturalDisasters) #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #MHEWS

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Jan 30, 2025

NOAA/USGS Water Map – National Water Model
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https://water.noaa.gov/map <-- shared web map
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https://water.noaa.gov/about/nwm <-- shared NWM ‘About’ page
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[ the post’s author did the spatial analysis to get the first round of elevation values of the majority of the 10s of millions offshore points, etc - http://alturl.com/3nrbm ]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #model #modeling #NationalWaterModel #NOAA #NWM #FIM #water #hydrology #framework #streamflow #realtime #observed #watercycle #rainfall #precipitation #snowmelt #overlandflow #flood #flooding #floodinnundationmodel #FIM #infiltration #bigdata #supercomputer #risk #hazard #mitigation #warning #warningsystems #threat #guidance #NationalWeatherService #forecast #forecasting #meteorology #river
@NOAA @USGS @nws

Map

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Jan 8, 2025

Improving Earthquake Early Warning Access For The Deaf Community
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https://eos.org/articles/improving-earthquake-early-warning-access-for-the-deaf-community <-- shared technical article
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https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1577653 <-- shared AGU poster details
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-024-06719-6 <-- shared paper
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#earthquake #risk #alert #deaf #hardofhearing #community #publichealth #risk #hazard #ShakeAlert #warning #warningsystems #DHH+ #fatality #death #earlywarning #publicsafety #naturalhazard #socialvulnerability #EEW #alert #emergency #language #sociolinguistic

Improving Earthquake Early Warning Access for the Deaf Community

Earthquake early warning systems are rarely accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. A group of scientists is working to change that.

Eos

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Aug 6, 2024

The Difference Between Alarming And Catastrophic - Cascadia Megafault Has One Especially Deadly Section, New Map Reveals
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https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/the-difference-between-alarming-and-catastrophic-cascadia-megafault-has-1-especially-deadly-section-new-map-reveals <-- shared technical article
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https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2024/06/08/cascadia-subduction-zone-one-of-earths-top-hazards-comes-into-sharper-focus/ <-- shared technical statement
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https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl3198 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #engineeringgeology #risk #hazard #megathrust #fault #faulting #earthquake #PNW #PacificNorthwest #CascadiaSubductionZone #remotesensing #naturalhazard #mitigation #model #modeling #geophysics #seismology #tsunami #displacement #buildingcodes #engineering #construction #warningsystems #plates #platetectonics #spatialanalysis #geometry

'The difference between alarming and catastrophic': Cascadia megafault has 1 especially deadly section, new map reveals

The Cascadia subduction zone is more complex than researchers previously knew. The new finding could help scientists better understand the risk from future earthquakes.

Live Science