{"id":1243,"date":"2013-12-30T21:18:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T21:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abetteremergency.com\/blog\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2013-12-30T21:18:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T21:18:34","slug":"week-of-december-29-emergency-news-you-can-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abetteremergency.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/week-of-december-29-emergency-news-you-can-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of December 29: Emergency News You Can Use"},"content":{"rendered":"

A weekly round-up of news, articles and surveys to make your next emergency better. Have a suggestion for the round-up? Contact me at abetteremergency@gmail.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

I found the proposed methods of insurance compensation<\/a> for those impacted by disasters to be interesting, and would love to see outcome measurements against other methods of trying to make people, communities, and economies whole again after disasters. I wonder if we would have seen more progress in Aceh<\/a> if they had such a disaster insurance program? The tsunami that devastated the area was nine years ago. If you wonder how much better prepared they are now, then I recommend this article.<\/a> <\/p>\n

I feel we’re only paying lip service to potentially damaging earthquakes on the West Coast of the United States<\/a>, and concrete steps to mitigate deaths and destruction seems lacking. I started a LinkedIn discussion which raised the question of whether we need a disaster before we really took disaster preparedness seriously. It appears that earthquake readiness is still a low priority in Oklahoma<\/a>. On the other hand, Sikkim is constructing 8,000 earthquake-resistant houses<\/a>. A great start. <\/p>\n

Why is it important to prepare? Seven weeks after Yolanda, there are still unburied corpses<\/a>. With more heat waves and wildfires predicted, headlines like this one out of Cape Town<\/a> could become more prevalent. How many regions are ready to meet the need?<\/p>\n

Poor construction quality and personnel negligence helped lead to the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant<\/a>. How many similar installations are operating today? The real problem with radiation releases is not the immediate impact, but the cumulative effects<\/a> and health problems over time. These lessons learned<\/a> from Japan are interesting. <\/p>\n

I mentioned last week that Hawaii was at risk for a significant tsunami event. I’m going to give you reason to rethink your Caribbean<\/a> vacation plans, too. <\/p>\n

Having a rapid response capacity<\/a> can help address key threats to human health from both acute onset injuries and also for chronic conditions, which can worsen under disaster conditions. <\/p>\n

Last, maybe there is hope that with aggressive monitoring, we may be better able to quantify risk to specific areas<\/a> and plan appropriately based upon predicted outcomes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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