#Hazards

USGS Earthquakes

USGS_Quakes

If you're in a Central or Eastern state in the U.S., you probably once thought earthquakes didn't happen near you. However, starting about 10 years ago you may have noticed

Elizabeth V

geolizzy

If I made a list of basic geology I wish everyone knew it would include:1) floodplains and why you shouldn’t build there2) the amount and types of mined materials everyone

USGS Earthquakes

USGS_Quakes

Wichita, Kansas got a rude early seismic wake-up call this morning just after 5am. With an epicenter in the northeast of the city, the 3.8 was widely felt across all

Daniel Swain

Weather_West

CA fire season is finally winding down. But >4 million acres have burned in 2020--a substantial portion of which at a high intensity and/or on steep slopes, which raises risk

USGS

USGS

The storm that hit California’s coast between Jan. 26 and 28, 2021, blew out a portion of Hwy 1 near Big Sur. On Saturday, a USGS reconnaissance flight snapped this

Muninn

Muninn18085831

Muninn’s guide to surviving explosive hazards:Explosion hazards can be broadly categorized as:Overpressure (blast)Fragmentation Thermal (heat/fire)I’ll make suggestions to mitigate each hazard, and provide some broad suggestions#nashvil

HuffPost

HuffPost

When Peggy Frank returned to her mail route on July 6, 2018, Los Angeles was in the middle of a scorching heat wave. The 63-year-old letter carrier had broken her

Sadie Boyd

Wonder_Phoenix

I’m a seasoned snow driver, here are some tips for my Texan friends:- clear your vehicle of ALL ice and snow before driving.-Slow and steady, turn those hazards on if

♔ AustR1an 🦬 (Hyperbrachicephalic)

DrunkAustrian

this side of twitter: believes in demonic activity and the supernatural in generalalso this side of twitter: throws arround information hazards as if they were bedtime stories ironically enough information

Dr. Jackie Caplan-Auerbach

geophysichick

I was recently asked what a person should do (academically) if they want to become a volcanologist. Rather than bury it in a longer thread, I thought I'd tackle it

AttorneyAtLaw

ZacMoselane

CAN YOUR EMPLOYER OR GOVERNMENT FORCE YOU TO GET VACCINATED?The debate here is between bodily integrity versus section 8 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act - in May 2020

Eric Earling

ericearling

Good . I’m on team 1 shot now. Get more people vaccinated quicker and then administer 2nd shots when supplies are higher.https://twitter.com/virusesimmunity/status/1345086678801805314 Unlike masks, airborne transmission, asymptomatic spre

Dr. Jazmin Scarlett (wear a mask!)

scarlett_jazmin

Okay, I’m now going to put my Masters dissertation into a thread! This was a volcanology, disaster studies and social-psychology project I did looking at the risk perceptions of Soufrière

Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

CSERCambridge

Up next on Day 3 of #CCCR2020 is Session 5 “Threats without enemies: natural global disasters and their consequences”, with Doug Erwin @smithsonian @sfiscience and Lindley Johnson @NASA, chaired by

Faisal Al Yafai

FaisalAlYafai

THREAD Go Home, Refugee. A glance at the photos in @mannocchia @alessioroa piece in yesterday's @newlinesmag and it is obvious why that most powerful of words - home - recurs

Chad P. Bown

ChadBown

In late 2019, China agreed to buy tens of billions of dollars of additional US exports in 2020 under Trump's Phase One deal. That didn't happen. Here’s why.My latest 1/https://www.piie.com/blogs/trade-and-investment-policy-watch/a

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